Searching for a Balance

I was waiting on a library patron the other day, a woman in her sixties with short, white hair. After a while she said to me, "You...

  (why is he sitting up like that?) (oh, no - don't you even think about it) ( good boy!)

Yesterday.  You can always expect to see cardinals while it's snowing. They're a bright patch in the otherwise neutral ...

I heard on the radio this morning that today is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice . So, how...

A quick bowl of cereal this morning after Mass and we took off to see Aunt Helen, who's temporarily at a rehab facility after a spell in...

I was recently looking for a green sweater and found a good deal at LOFT online, a sixty dollar one for only twenty. When it came, I look...

Debra and I got together a couple of years ago  and she made egg salad.  When I marveled at how small and nicely chopped it was, she told m...

last night after the snow.

I've been occupying myself and also using up yarn with these zippered pouches from a holiday craft magazine. (MSL 2006)   I made one, t...

Although today was surprisingly warm (in the fifties) there's some cold air blowing in.

I do the stitching, she holds down my knitting bag. We're companion plants.

How interesting an out of focus picture can be - but I still have to go clean the stove!

Well, all over town of course, but I took these pictures there I don't get tired of looking at it.

I'd thought I had enough of these but when I got to the bottom of the stack, it was really nothing to make a few more - they are jus...

Well, not waste , exactly. I had a bag of Wyman's wild blueberries in the freezer for too long and thought I'd make a pie. I ad...

 Today I put away many of the Christmas decorations and forgot two made a batch of meatballs for the freezer and chicken ...

After rescuing some overripe bananas from my neighbor the other day, I decided to make this favorite recipe slightly altered from one of Ni...

I would like to nap under the tree. Even just once in a while.

This flannel lap quilt has needed mending long enough - tonight I'm fixing it. I didn't make it, but it's a great favorite. A...

Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you! See, darkness covers the earth, and t...

A partial collection of things Dolly's knocked off the tree.

Saturday into Sunday we had the first big snow of the season. These pretty firs are across the street. I was very happy to find some...

with the utmost attention. Roy Underhill is a fascinating figure, don't you know.

One last quote from Gladys: "As I let the dogs back in, I smell the snow. The walk is silver, the picket fence wears pointed caps. N...

(We tend to like to leave some gifts and wrappings hanging around for a while.)

Are the squirrels looking well-fed where you live?  I haven't seen a slim one in months.  There is one in particular who's quite chu...