I don’t normally write restaurant reviews, but then, this isn’t really a normal review. That is to say, I have nothing to say about the food at Marge’s Kitchen, because I haven’t actually had any. Here is the story: Marge’s Kitchen is a small breakfast restaurant in Northampton, MA. It’s a short walk from where … Read more

So, some number of weeks ago we had heard a scratching sound in some of the kitchen cupboards.  We suspected mice.  Fortunately, this cupboard area did not contain any food.  At one point, a small furry thing was spotted briefly, and the cookbooks in the cupboard then got removed to prevent their being shredded. Plans … Read more

I was looking through the stats for my website today, and was amused to discover a couple of things. First, one of the referring sites to my site was the blog of a somewhat famous person. It turned out that, in comments about Mooney going to the midwest to speak, someone remarking on Michigan made … Read more

Our house seems to get quite a variety of critters in it. This is probably partly because it’s a very old house, and because we’re sort of surrounded by woods. Some of the encounters we’ve had (some fun, some not so fun): We had a hornet’s nest in one of the windows, and sprayed it, … Read more