All Things Home and Family
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
Water Lily on Windigo Lake I didn't know I was using up so much time with the simple task of washing up. And it was never done. The drainer was full of clean drying dishes, always. The counters were never quite cleared. That was before we had a dishwasher. Elv and I spend minimal time… Continue reading In Praise of Dishwashers
On Saturday night. We're headed down to minus eleven degrees. Yes! I found these frosty, ferny-looking beauties on our living room windows this morning. Tonight the frost is even thicker on the windows. Old windows and sub-zero weather, but we have warmth and cheer within. Inside we are cozy and bookish. I'm reading about Condaleeza… Continue reading Really Quick Posting
It was a fine first day of the year, cold and snowy, with a bitter but refreshing breeze freezing our faces as we crunched over frozen swamp at Elv's woods job. I took off my mittens holding them between my knees to rewrap my scarf to cover my face better. Grandkids scattered on ahead crashing… Continue reading Cedars and Grandkids
Jube has been getting drone pictures for us. This one of our home is lovely in my opinion. Almost forty years of memories and stories. Each tree loved and considered, because trees. That dear old garden spot requires more amending of soil always, ad infinitum. Maybe it's just time to have grass and apple trees… Continue reading Glimpses
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