All Things Home and Family
Along Rt 2 also known as the Great Northern Road Trip. Here's an article. We traveled most of the way through the plains part of it today. We started the day watching the sky. Apparently we drove under the fly way. Huge flocks of geese. This guy seemed to be out wandering around. He had… Continue reading Day Two
Of traveling west to Idaho. Northern Minnesota is old, somehow. Old barns, silos, low sheds with faded tin, and trailer houses. Someone thought it was a good idea to pull in a trailer house beside the old farmhouse and move over. Now the old house stands straight and true, admittedly windowless, but the mobile home… Continue reading First Day
And not vicariously, through Instagram or the likes of that imposter of one's own zest and very wits. The lowliest room at our house has a cactus blooming in the window sill for the second time since last late fall. I'm far more gratified with this than if I saw someone else's whole conservatory on… Continue reading Living a Beautiful Life
When we got up up this morning the temps were dropping. At fifteen below by seven. Then the sun was coming up so it got a little warmer throughout the day. The next two days will be bitterly cold. All that to say that we have been keeping the stove fires going all day and… Continue reading February Inspiration
This is for my girls. It's midwinter. The days are lengthening, the cold strengthening... It's been "twenty below" each morning. By evening we're chilled and the stove fires are important. Snow fell straight down all the afternoon today. I've been finding little ways to give myself a boost. Yesterday I sorted and organized my desk… Continue reading February Lift
January is done and gone. And I'm glad about it. Glad to have "Atlanta" behind me even though it was worthy, exciting work to shop the big market for the store where I work. I am not going to try to describe the place. Just imagine your favorite interior decor/household goods/gift and furniture store on… Continue reading January Is Gone
I know nothing about politics. So when I make observations from my own little corner of the world, don't try to pin me to any particular stance or party. Mostly, I am still impressionable and hopeful. And I like happy endings to great stories. I'm referring To Jimmy Carter's funeral last week. I really enjoyed… Continue reading Take Away of Last Week
Today got a slow start. Saturdays should start slowly with coffee. Ours did nicely, today. I had a list of house work and laundry. But somehow I found that I could no longer stand looking at that dark gap, hit and miss, along the corner trim and the ceiling or along the wall for that… Continue reading Old House Homekeeping
Listening to Monty Don's podcast, Gardeners World, today got me outside to see my own garden. What's it like out there in January anyway? It's beautiful! The apple trees are snug and safe in their fences. Aha, the rabbits are thwarted. The chickadees and nuthatches were so happy and noisy in the sunshine. My pet… Continue reading The Garden In January
Another evening by the fire is ahead of us. We will likely read and play Scrabble. But first, Elv is running up and down the stairs on a quest to stop a dripping faucet that has been clogging my washer drain with an ice dam. Apparently, it has become a snowmobile by now. Which is… Continue reading Monday Evening
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