All Things Home and Family
I've been thinking about perceptions and good judgement this week. I wonder about these things often, but this week especially, because I have a head cold and it's affected my hearing significantly. That ridiculous tornado siren on the firehall next door didn't bother me at all yesterday. I often run into an inner room and… Continue reading Hush and Poor Judgement
This Saturday post requires effort. What do you do when what this blog is for is not what's taking up mental energy right now? Furthermore the thing cannot be sorted into any semblance of speakableness. Not here, for sure. Besides this, the promising clouds and breeze are meaningless and empty. No snow all winter and… Continue reading March Madness
Oh well, let it be then. Will spring be spring with no winter preceding? Let's find out. There are pussy willows on my table, Thank You, Abbey. That's better than snow, anyway, since it's March now. The frost went out last week for good. Yay! We can clean up the lawns, again, Thanks to our trees,… Continue reading Acquiescent to Spring
It's Monday. There are three loaves of fresh baked bread on the counter in the kitchen. The house is strangely quiet: only the clocks and the little creaks from the stove, the tiny twits of birds at the feeders, and a car door shutting across the way... The soft swish of traffic. It's quiet because… Continue reading Life at the Stone House
It's Saturday evening. I've made tea of the Chamomile variety. Apparently, Elv is going to continue into the night with his project of transforming the basement utility room into a bathroom. Most often we play Scrabble in the evenings between reading or listening to music. So I have tea alone, unless you count yourselves as… Continue reading At Home
Four days is not long enough. We knew that and had actually given ourselves six days initially, but the trains! But we've given trains enough coverage already. So we had four days to see Dad and Mom, my siblings, and those of our children who have made Idaho their home. The way to see my… Continue reading Our Time in Idaho
January has been all 31 days long. Maybe ten of those days were actually our usual kind of winter with cold and snow. Otherwise, we mostly had grey days and were too warm in temperatures. It messes with our sense of time and seasons. But today the sun came out and those glass sun catchers… Continue reading Sun’s Out!
We took the train to visit the folks in Idaho last week. Taking the train is Elv's choice of ways to travel. I would rather fly, personally. So train, it was, again. It was better than when we went to Brad's wedding, partly because we knew what to expect, making plans and expectations easier to… Continue reading Amtrak to Idaho
It's been a really nice Christmastime this year. Maybe the nicest ever. I asked Elv why this is. "Probably it's mostly attitude on your part." He suggested. Of course, my attitude is good, but I think it's because, not why, if you know what I mean. We did all the things: gathered around nice meals… Continue reading The Best Christmas Ever
Christmas Eve Day dawned late, again, at almost eight, this morning, gray and misty. The temps are well above freezing and Lily's lilacs are budding... how sickening. I feel a little desperate about this brown Christmas. It feels all wrong and wonky, somehow, to me. I think I understand better the waiting world during those… Continue reading Waiting In The Dark
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