It's finally starting to feel like late fall just in time for Thanksgiving here in the US next week. I'm looking forward to being with family and friends and eating good food and being thankful for what we have. And to get a head start, let's be thankful for this...

Greetings everyone - I hope you got to observe Remembrance/Veterans Day earlier this week. I went to the Veterans Day parade, saw the wreath laying at City Hall, and enjoyed the day off. We finally got a little rain here, breaking a 37-day dry spell. Not sure it was...

Welp. I know I need the distraction so let's just focus on the puzzle for a few minutes. Name: Stand up for Yourself Grid size: 15x15 Entries: 72 Difficulty: Easy (my solve time: 5:15) A speedy solve this week, so I had little time to ponder the theme until I finished...

Note - this post was started shortly after the puzzle was published on 23 October, but as mentioned in the post for the 30 October 2024 puzzle, I got distracted and never finished it. The below is a partial post at the request of several kind solvers/readers. The...

Happy Halloween everyone 👻 I hope you get more treats than tricks. It is shaping up to be an unseasonably warm Halloween here - near 80℉/27℃. It's quite nice right now as I compose this sitting on my deck watching the leaves fall from the trees in my yard, so...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving last weekend, and for those of us with Thanksgiving in the future, that you had a nice weekend. We had beautiful weather, so I got some yard work done and was able to fire up the grill a couple of times. The air is starting...

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We have had a run of beautiful weather for the past week, after nearly two weeks of (badly needed) rain. Thoughts go out to those in the southeastern US who are bearing the brunt of a record hurricane season, which I fear...

Sorry for the delay folks - I could have sworn I drafted and posted this blog entry on Thursday or Friday but apparently not. So this will be a quick post to get caught up. And for those waiting on tenterhooks to find out if I went to Victoria last weekend - no I...

Greetings from a place where I can see Canada, and I may actually visit. I'm in Sequim, WA just across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island. We're thinking of taking the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria, which I haven't visited for at least 15 years....

We're finally getting a little rain here which we need as my grass had pretty much turned brown again. This past weekend was quite nice, so I spent a lot of time working in the yard but not as much time as I wanted sitting on the deck. Let's take a look at the puzzle...