I had thought it was going to be a fairly uneventful day, but then I went into the basement.

After a baking summer, the last few wet, rainy days had left the air humid and the ground saturated, so I decided to head down into the basement to dump the water in the dehumidifier.

The bulb had burned …

A month or so ago I found a little bird in my basement. I wasn’t sure how he got in there — maybe he came in when I had the outside door opened for a couple hours? I am not a biologist, so I don’t know what type of bird it was, but if I had to make a guess, I would say some sort of nuthatch? He had …