My guest list

Carole suggested that we think about 10 people we would like to have at our table for Thanksgiving dinner, real or fictional. I stretched it a bit and added, not alive.
1. Julia Child, Though I have admired her most of my life (I was one of those kids sitting in front of her cooking show [...]

My thankfulness goes on… Thankful Thursday!

~On these frosty mornings, I am thankful for the scarves that I have knit. Nothing makes me happier than a warm neck!
~I am thankful that I have the ability to knit something, to warm my neck.
~I am thaaaankful for all the sheep who gave their wool so that I can knit a scarf to keep [...]

Randomly welcoming Friday

~If tomorrow is Saturday, it must be rain in the forecast.
~As I drove up to the hairdresser’s yesterday a woman was walking around the parking lot (it shares a lot with a lot of other businesses) with perm rollers in her hair, a plastic bag wrapping her head and wearing a cape.  And she was [...]

Come and play, everything’s A-Okay!

If the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin wall makes you feel like time is flying, how about the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street!
My kids loved that show, watched it every day. Are they better off? Of course they are. Because they learned songs like this
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and this one too [...]

6 bags to donate, 5 bags of trash! And a partridge in a pear tree…

Today was such a glorious day! The weather was perfect. Any day that you can open the windows and get wonderful fresh air into the house is such a bonus at this time of year!
As often happens, a small project of carrying a bureau down the stairs and out the door spurred all of us [...]

Turn, turn, turn

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Some of you already know the story of my neighbor, Mr. Connelly. But it always deserves to be said again.
Mr. Connelly is about 80 years old. Of course, I have thought he was 80 since we moved into this house and that was almost 22 years ago now. About 12 or [...]

Sometimes you cannot get home fast enough

 
Sometimes a day is so bad, in fact, a week stacks up bad…SO BAD that there is only one thing for a person to do. Wine about it.
I felt close to dissolving in tears a couple of times today, it was not pretty. Tonight I will spend a bit of time with a fat bastard. [...]

So sweet of a list, your teeth may hurt

(even though I rotate that picture and save it, it is still on it’s side. Turn your head to the left. There. It was like that)
Claudia challenges her readers to explain what it is that makes November so special to us. I could write a dissertation on the subject, I swear.
~The November sky
The November hating [...]

My passing encounter with Charlie

I know that a lot of people mind this end to Daylight Savings Time. I’m not one of them. I enjoy driving to work in the morning sunshine. But I especially enjoy coming home in the dark. I love the cold air as I leave work, the stars coming out (Or the sun setting if [...]

That turkey is texting me

October flew right by, didn’t it? I have to say that our Halloween was just lovely complete with an (almost) full moon, spooky wind and mild temps. You’d think that one single trick or treater could have managed to stumble down our driveway. But no. Not a one.
Dear Lazy Trick or Treaters,
Saving yourself a [...]