Five O'Clock Somewhere

Welcome to Five O'Clock Somewhere, where it doesn't matter what time zone you're in; it's five o'clock somewhere. We'll look at rural life, especially as it happens in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, cats, sailing (particularly Etchells racing yachts), and bits of grammar and Victorian poetry.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dumbing down?

I know educators mean well, but have they really thought the issue out? I recently ran across an “adaptation” of The Wind in the Wil...

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Belated Cat Herders Day

Better late than never .. . Alas, I was so busy herding cats that I didn't get a chance to post my usual annual blog post in honor of...

Friday, December 21, 2012

Gettin’ edjicated

Been on the receiving end of a lot of schooling lately … I just had a really odd dream. I dreamed that the community college where I...

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Shopping -- the non-big-box way

Avoiding the crowds Yes, we did some shopping today. But we didn't go anywhere near a mall or big-box store. We needed a hall table ...

Sunday, December 09, 2012

Been a long time ...

The end of a long dry spell It's been months since I've been out on a sailboat on a lake. While it hasn't been months si...

Friday, November 02, 2012

I'm baaack!

And it's NaNoWriMo time ... After a rash of technical difficulties, I've revived the blog. And it's also November, which mea...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

It’s the most wonderful time …

Cat Herders Day is here again! It is time once again to celebrate Cat Herders Day , the official holiday of Five O’Clock Somewhere, tomorrow...

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Grammar Moment: Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Please remember, “they” is plural. This past week, as I do at the end of every term, I participated in panel grading of portfolios for the E...

Friday, December 02, 2011

How many cats is a three dog night worth?

Trying to keep warm It’s a cold night in Albuquerque. It’s also a windy night. The predicted low is 24 degrees (Fahrenheit), and the winds...

Thursday, December 01, 2011

One more NaNo under the bridge

This year's National Novel Writing Month effort seemed much harder than in past years. For most of the month, I was far more behind on ...

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Don't bait your English teacher; you may regret it

My National Novel Writing Month adventures continue. I've fallen behind in my word count, so I'm trying to catch up. In this excerp...

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

It’s November again

It’s time for that annual ritual, in which I flog myself until I’ve cranked out 50,000 words in 30 days or less, participating in National N...

Sunday, September 18, 2011

More long and winding ...

Another long way home, this time by way of the Rio Grande Gorge. View Larger Map This time around, we took the scenic route eastward along U...

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Rhetoric Moment: Well developed writing

Beefing up your paragraphs When you write an essay, you need to provide sufficient supporting details to prove the point that you are ma...

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Back from the dead

Well, I wasn’t REALLY dead, but I don’t blame you if you thought that I was. How time flies. I’ve been working on all sorts of other thi...

Friday, July 22, 2011

We have a winner!

or, at least, we have visitor #100K ... The lucky person who happened to be the 100,000th person to cross the threshold of this blog was a s...

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Writing project: approaching a milestone

So, what should the prize be this time? This blog is about to reach a historic milestone. As I start to type this post, Sitemeter has regist...

Monday, June 27, 2011

Long and winding road update

One detour I wish did not have to be ... A major section of the last route shown in the previous post is currently off-limits, and once it i...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

More long and winding roads

Exercises in getting from here to there, or there to here In planning for this weekend, we had a bit of a problem. I had to return to Albuqu...

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