No Strings Attached

Kathleen David's weblog

Valentine’s Day 2019

| February 14, 2019

Actually comes out of the 14thcentury ideal of courtly love , think Lancelot, Arthur, and that lot.  It is in the 18thcentury that we get the cards, confections, and cards. The Victorians really took it over the top. Not bad for a martyred saint who met a rather bloody end that had chuck all to […]

Slippery but that’s about it. Could have been much worse

| February 13, 2019

Yesterday’s storm dumped snow to ice to rain. Biggest problem was traction. When driving you had to be hyper alert to what your car was doing and how to break safely. The school did do an early dismissal because of the roads. Caroline had an orthodontist appointment that Peter drove her to using only main […]

Waiting on the Weather

| February 12, 2019

OK we are back up and running here. There was some error that caused a bit of a pause. That seems to have been cleared up and I am posting again. This will probably be one of those weather fronts that the North shore and the South shore of Long Island are going to see […]

And the Spanner has been removed

| February 4, 2019

Or rather fate had a change of plans. Which I will elaborate more on tomorrow. So now I can rethink my rethinking of my plans. Still going to get that one project done today or as close to done as I can so I can work on a few other things before the convention. I […]

Sage Advice: Always expect a curve ball just when you got your swing

| February 3, 2019

And I did get one that will change the structure of the week but does not affect Farpoint.  It does, however, put a big ol’ spanner in my plans for the week. My list got compressed and limited. This may also limit my ability to blog for a couple of days but I am going […]