All Things Home and Family
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
... If we try to live too many lives in one lifetime. I keep a journal and I use my phone camera almost everyday, documenting what we're doing and seeing. I have thousands of pictures with years of memories that I can go back to relive or to review anytime I wish. And a dresser… Continue reading I Wonder Sometimes
Writing in November is a great idea, but there it stays unless one dedicates oneself to the actualities of the process of doing it. You have to step into it and then do it. You have to think and write. What can be so difficult? It's not the writing that's hard to do. The difficulty… Continue reading The Business of Life
So much for writing every day. I did write every day. So it counts. Just not posted. So here you go, not really writing, just show and tell. I decorated Christmas today. Huh? What an interesting way to say it, as per the blue line suggestion. I mean I decorated for winter and Christmas today.… Continue reading December Decorating
The pies are lined up in my kitchen window sill, two pumpkin pies, a lemon sour cream and a peanut butter cream. Lisl says she will bring the apple pie. There are dinner rolls. Two batches of them. Gramma Skrivseth and my mom would be proud of these rolls. They're light and moist and nicely… Continue reading Thanksgiving
Stone House Scribblings 