Scoakat's Blog

Yesterday got up to 87ºF and today was to be the same, so I got started early on some more yard clean-up.  Tomorrow is supposed to be nice, ...

We had planned to go to a Jamboree to sample different foods from black-owned restaurants last weekend, part of Black Restaurant Week here i...

Plus commentary, that is. My wife and I spent time on separate chores this morning, mine at home and hers more unexpected and difficult.  By...

When I got home Friday afternoon I found myself surprised that I saw plants starting to come up.  It's been a relatively mild winter and...

A week ago our dishwasher died, the pump stopped working.  This one lasted almost exactly 7 years, and the one prior lasted only 5 years, bu...

Well, time to break the seal with the first new post of 2025.  The holidays have come and gone, and we've settled back into daily life h...

A couple hawks with a snack, across the street yesterday. After finally getting cable TV canceled last month, no small feat , I changed my s...

I've been feeling much better this week but for continuing sniffles, since being sick the prior two weeks.  It's just been going aro...

Happy New Year!  I don't know if I'll be up for it so I'm writing this from the past and scheduling this for just after midnight...

It's been awhile since I've written much of anything online since I last posted here.  It was nothing I planned but just turned into...

The Badgers men's basketball team is still playing, even if it is just the NIT, and they played today at 11 a.m.  Today is sunny and fin...

We are in the throes of winter, stretches of sun and temperatures leading to thoughts of spring then snow, ice and cold again.  The local gr...

It's jacket weather today, light jacket.  The air becomes crisp though the sun shines.  There's a bit of a breeze, but that's su...

A few weeks ago my counterpart at work took 3 of 4 weeks off, so I took Thursday and Friday off this week as a little reward for myself and ...

It's been mostly another slow, winter week around here.  We're way below normal snow totals so far, and most days recently have been...

It's close enough to the holiday to say Merry Christmas, everyone!  Not a white Christmas here this year as today was relatively warm, d...

We have two different kinds of tiger lilies in the flower bed along the porch.  One kind that was here when we moved in, a little larger and...

I don't think I have many words to say, but I'm sure I'll think of something.  I do have several pictures of our area from this ...

We're well into the new year now and other than for a little insurrection review I've not posted in 2021.  We are entering the doldr...

Barring small mammals and firepits there's not been a lot to write about over here the last several weeks.  One day blurs into the next ...