Round Museum

One moment, your twins are jumping around on a jungle gym, and the next, they are twenty-one-year-old full-fledged adults. Where does the time go? Around and around and around….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SABINE!

09.11.23

When a cupholder is unavailable while shopping, you must strap in your little iced decaf soy latte baby with a seatbelt.

09.10.23

The moment you put a watermelon down in the barnyard with a dozen hens, just step away very quickly. Staying hydrated in the Arizona heat can be a battle, and mini-velociraptors will leave nothing behind. Kathleen and Blondie will attack first, knocking Maeve and Moira aside. Chicky and Baby Chicky may look sweet, but they'll peck your eye out in a second. And Rooster? Well, he will stay out of the fray entirely. When the dust settles, the rind will be pecked clean as a whistle.

09.09.23

Sure, summer is “over,” but the current heatwaves everywhere beg to differ. If you’re in Arizona, heat is a different animal altogether. So, what do you do for your chickens? Well, the answer is right there on the counter! Slice a watermelon in half, and the chicks will come a-runnin’! Henrietta? Francine? They're waiting by the door already. Beatrice loves a sweet treat. Eleanor has pecked a fruit or two. And Marianne? Well… that hen will just scream and run away -- what a Horror Show!

09.08.23

Look right there…the rear of that car is all banged up! Let’s get a closer look. Now, wait a second... I'm not responsible for this! I don’t recall a fender bender. How did this happen? But my head kinda hurts…

09.07.23

From the roof deck you can see the Atlantic Ocean on the east side and Little Egg Harbor on the bayside. From the spiral stair you can see the second floor porch and the ground level patio and garden. Dizzy yet?

09.06.23

When the crabapples come ashore en masse on Bucklin Beach at Little Lake Sunapee, you know the summer season is ending. Their annual journey across the lake to spawn on the sandy beach typically culminates around the full moon in late August, but pomologists still don’t fully understand the mechanism by which crabapples synchronize with this cycle. They hypothesize that the behavior is a means to protect and spread seeds more widely. But how do the crabapples know?

09.05.23

I can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growin' tired, and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meanin' when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Slice a maracuyá in half and you’re ready to eat. Also known as passion fruit, the name translates literally as "fruit that serves itself" or “food in a bowl.” This little red 3-inch bowl is packed with a juicy center containing pulpy seeds to be scooped right out with a spoon.

09.03.23

Stare closely at the bagel and concentrate. Analyze this. It’s the last one… do you take it? You’re really hungry. Or leave it for someone else? It may not be your favorite. No poppyseed. No pumpernickel. No cinnamon-raisin. Just sesame. But the rational assessment might be to take what you can get. So which direction are you thinking?

09.02.23