This past weekend I started manually re-posting blog entries from 2002 to 2004 that have been stuck on static pages for years into the current database system. Blog entries from 2004 — well, at least the ones with no dead links — are now in the system. I already started re-posting entries from 2003 but…… Continue reading The Blurry Years

As soon as I wake up in the morning, I almost always have a really random thought pop into my head and I could never figure out what brought that on. (Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so random, would it?) This morning, my random thought was about a Canadian TV show we never watched called Da…… Continue reading Some Random Thoughts

Just wanted to share more pictures from our walk at the local natural area this past Sunday. I hope you like the way I see! 🙂

Yesterday we went to a natural area in town that we’d never been to even though we’d lived in this town for over two years. The trail in this natural area pretty much goes around the town. Google Maps told us to start at this one particular point which turned out to be some crescent…… Continue reading The Natural Area

Once again, the poor blog has become a victim of blogger abandonment. It’s a good thing that a blog is not a pet. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have been allowed to have another blog, by law. Rest assured that this is not the only abandoned blog of mine. Oh no, Siree! It’s just the only…… Continue reading Summer Update

Remember when I was freaking out because I thought I was going blind? Well, after a couple of tests, it looks like I’m not going blind just yet. The field of vision test showed my peripheral/side vision on both of my eyes was fine, meaning my glaucoma hasn’t gone out of control. But the glaucoma…… Continue reading The Epic Saga of Something In My Left Eye

If you know me, you’ll know that when I like a song a lot, I’ll play it over and over again for days, much to my husband’s dismay. There are two songs I really, really like at the moment. They’re from the same singer/songwriter and happily, the two songs are placed next to each other…… Continue reading Music To My Ears

Hi, my name is Firda, I’m in my late 30s and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I’m jealous of people younger than me who seem to have everything figured out. Great careers. Jobs that pay well. Making money doing things they love. Actually, I’m not really jealous…… Continue reading Firda Beka, Tree Photographer

Spring is here again and so began the second year of my backyard garden. The lawn is still infested with weeds because, really, no matter how hard we try, there is no way we could beat the frickin’ weeds. But eh, if you can’t beat ’em, you embrace ’em, and that’s what we’re doing. We…… Continue reading Inch by inch, row by row…