TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....

 Nothing new to report here. Thunderstorms, torrential rain, mugginess - well all right, no hurricanes but we might as well be in Florida. T...

 There's nothing like a rain-washed garden... Except when it's rained non-stop for weeks. A watery sun just out for long enough to t...

 Our closest metropolis, here in western New York, Buffalo, is proud of its botanical gardens, which I've just visited for the first tim...

Which would you prefer?   In Britain we call vaccinations "jabs" but when I used this expression to someone here,  they recoiled i...

  (See below) The babies are growing bigger and stronger the poor geranium is getting smaller and weaker. I should think they are about read...

  A recent Wall Street Journal article - possibly it was a slow news day - remarked that many American parents had noticed that their childr...

 Strikes again! If it wasn't enough last year to build her nest on top of the motion detector lights on the garage door and bring up two...