From Sorrow to Joyous Challenge
Amazing how quickly sorrow can change to joy–all in a week’s time! My last post centered on Bella’s disappearance. For two days, Rick and Kat truly mourned. Then on Saturday, the hot topic in the house was less about Bella and more about purchasing a pair of kittens. Several possibilities were found in an online […]
Read MoreYorkshire Day
August first has been a day to celebrate the beauty and culture of England’s largest historic county since 1975. “What is your favorite place to visit in Yorkshire?” I asked Rick. His immediate answer, “The Yorkshire Dales. It has so many places of interest. We’ve been to most of those places.” So to honor the […]
Read MoreWords for Caregivers
It’s a sad and sorry fact. Yet, the fact remains. In one way or another, bodies age out. Whether Generation X or Z or Millennial–regardless of your labeled generation, the inevitable will happen to you either directly or indirectly. I’m not merely referring to the infirm and disabled. I’m addressing a multitude of caregivers. Those […]
Read MoreButterfly Gardens
The first one we visited was in 2006 outside Butchart Gardens in British Columbia. The second was last year at Tropical World in Leeds, 12 miles from home. The third occurred this past Thursday at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield about 20 miles away. Interestingly, the World Wide Web shows that there are 11 […]
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The question is asked in White Christmas, “What does a retired general do?” The same sort of question can be asked of the estates of former aristocrats. Most people of the 21st century have scarce knowledge of the feudal system of economics and government which existed in Europe from about 500 AD to 1500 AD […]
Read MoreJune 10th/10th of June
If you visit the United Kingdom for any length of time, you must relearn how to express a date. Take a birth date, for instance. Written with numbers in America, it would look like this: 06/10/76. In Britain, it appears as 10/06/76. It is so easy to say, “Just keep in mind that the numbers […]
Read MoreAt the YWP
This week, we again visited the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. My fourth post (1.4.25) focused on the cold temperatures of that first visit on December 30th. This time the weather was gloriously comfortable! And the focus will be on the animals. YWP is home to some 400 animals of 70 different species. Many of them are […]
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World Famous Sites
At 6:30 last Tuesday morning, we headed southwest to Stonehenge! The five and a half hour drive included 90 minutes of slow-downs due to a stalled truck, road construction, and rush hour traffic here and there. Stonehenge sets on the Salisbury Plain, which is “a chalk plateau in southern England covering 300 square miles.” Not only does […]
Read MoreRick’s Birds of Britain
Kat and Rick are well suited for each other in many ways. For one, they are collectors. Before college, Katie collected all the Mandy books and, later, all the Star Trek films and TV series. Rick has collected planes, trains, and small woodland animals. Together they have collected the figurines of more than 140 birds […]
Read MoreCat Walk
This is Bella, Kat’s cat. She has been part of the Dodge household for three years. Whenever she condescends to leave her sleeping place and come into our presence, she provides live entertainment that is better than anything on TV: from scratching her kitty post to gazing out the window to suddenly jumping up and […]
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