April 2024 - Musings

Another Bug Out

This evening, we had another bug boil – this time with our friends the Spindels. Enrique and I go back to our early days in […]

Forked Tongue

I drove to the HEB in Suset Valley for beef tongue this afternoon. I found a relatively small one, suitable for two people, and brought […]

Juxtaposition

We watch a lot of Food TV, and the programs often feature cuisine that is described as fusion – a combination of French and Carribean […]

Defoliation

All of our flower beds have been overgrown for at least a year if not longer. The most troublesome species have been hackberry saplings, elm […]

This Week in COVID

Dr. Klotman’s BCM video update this week has nothing about COVID. Things are fairly quiet in the world of respiratory viruses right now, and that’s […]

Bug Fest 2024

To us, it’s more a season than a singular event. Louisiana crawfish, aka mud bugs, become available in Austin in April and continue to be […]

Topsy-Turvy

Like many of my friends, I’m having too many Alice in Wonderland days when everything seems topsy-turvy. Today was one of those days. I drove […]

Nefarious

Listening to David Pecker’s testimony in the Trump 2016 Election Interference case today, I thought about the very real concerns that folks have about potential […]

SHEA

It’s the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America. The society’s Spring meeting was in Houston this year – hosted by Baylor College of Medicine (our […]

Quesadillas con Epazote

My epazote plants are now large enough that their leaves are about 2″ long. So, I decided to make a snack of quesadillas last night. […]