Monthly Archives: January 2014

I’m sitting here in the silence of the night, thinking about going to bed but strangely still energized and not ready yet to end the day. It’s been like that lately – having energy to actually accomplish some things, something … Continue reading →

Can you tell what I’ve been doing? The second hint. You’re so clever! You figured it out right away, didn’t you? Yes, I’ve been painting – those walls that were once a dark cranberry red that I grew weary of … Continue reading →

I am taking what I view as a well-deserved break to play with Cee’s Challenge, a slightly different take on sharing our worlds. But first – the past few days have been busy – the last two with painting the … Continue reading →

A couple of days late, but before week 4 arrives, so here we go again – answering, or trying to answer, the questions Cee poses. Several of you are able to be so concise with your responses, and in many … Continue reading →

On our day of wandering, we came home via a small back road that borders the lake near the intersection where we’d turn to go home. There is a small park there, actually a boat-launching area, that Kat and I … Continue reading →

Earlier in the week, the big furry girls and I hopped in the van – okay, so Shasta hopped, Bailey clambered and I climbed – and drove up this road through patches of heavy fog and patches of sunshine past … Continue reading →

Wait! What happened to 2013? Oh yeah, I took a leave of absence. Well, I’ve decided I want to join the fun again and have made peace with my habit of spending my morning in the morning room, iPad on … Continue reading →

Last week we had a morning like this Followed by a sunny day. But I had started “reorganizing” – aka making messes of piles of things – just moving things from here to there. So I stayed inside. The furry … Continue reading →

Because she is. Because. Just because. But she does wonder – do people think she’s cold? She’s cruel? She’s unfeeling? Truth is this: my husband, the man I loved, the man I married, left over two years ago. He became … Continue reading →

I have been attempting, these past few days, to do some reorganizing. The kind of reorganizing that maximizes the use of space – to elevate little-used space to oft-used space. To move my crafts from the back bedroom to what … Continue reading →