• Food,  Just For Fun,  News

    A Retreat to the Mountains

    A have the great blessing to have a couple days to myself up in the mountains. I’ll be spending it working during the day, but it does afford some evening pleasantry. Currently, I’m making chili, starting a puzzle, and marveling at the Creator’s work. But I think I am going to try to get a head start reading for my next class (Intro to OT 1), as well. As I said, chili. This burner does not want to offer a stable “low” heat: And a puzzle. This one is my father-in-law’s, and I’ve been meaning to finish it so I might return it: And what beauty (and a critter living…

  • Language,  News,  Software

    Christmas 2018

    Merry Christmas! Well, this will be the first post at my new home, wordsandbottles.com. I used to blog on WordPress, at sphodra.wordpress.com, but it has been a while. I’ve been wanting to get some windows hosting space where I could play with code and, well, do all kinds of fun things. I wanted the ability to blog in a space that would be completely flexible – only limited by my time and energy. So, here I am. I got webspace (thanks WinHost) for Christmas and am enjoying setting up this site. So, what’s been going on with me? During the holiday break so far, I’ve worked on a couple puzzles…