Searching for a Balance

I finally finished this plant-pot cozy , and took it to the library. I wrapped it round the plant pot, and secured it with two sticks fro...

Dolly was sleeping at suppertime, so I fed Henry. Finally I woke her and had her eating on the front windowsill. Turned around, and there w...

For so long I've been wanting to try it, but there was always some aspect that made me hesitate. Until I came across this on Pinterest...

"Like an old silver spoon stored in soft gray flannel, hospitality neither dulls with time nor discolors with wear. It shines the brigh...

whatever that might be.

Eternal light, shine in my heart; Eternal hope, lift up my eyes; Eternal power, be my support Eternal wisdom, make me wise. Etern...

After a very snow-less winter so pretty.

I think we have three address books in this house, many of them from years ago and with outdated information. I'd bought a blank one to...

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, ...

I'm putting some of it away, but not all. And no hurry.

Cyndi brought over a cardboard "gingerbread house" for the cats. It's cute - the floor in it is that thick cardboard stuff the...

A couple of days ago I had a bit of leftover meatloaf and some chicken from the freezer I wanted to finish off. It wasn't much, so soup...

I was looking at photos from a year ago, and found this - Last January while getting ready for work on a snowy morning I saw this bird....

really just the chiaroscuro of a poorly exposed photo. :D

They're not, really. They are Margo's Midwinter Breakfast Buns . But it's Twelfth Night, so that's what I'm calling them...

At last we had some holiday snow yesterday, which turned sleety and was supposed to turn to rain and all melt away but what happened wa...

My boss gave us these ornaments for Christmas - the scene is on the green, in the center of town!  The women's club was selling them....

The Christmas cactus at the library is entirely covered in blooms.  And beginning in early fall, all I did was give it less water than usua...

O Lord, you have created all! How did you come to be so small, To sweetly sleep in manger-bed Where lowing cattle lately fed? Wer...

There's a very popular Jewish deli in the next town and we went there on my birthday. I had their macaroni and cheese, which is really g...

  -  rainbow chard.

Why does the chilling winter's morn Smile like a field beset with corn; Or smell to a mead new shorn, Thus on the sudden? C...

"When I think of Christmas Eves, Christmas feasts, Christmas songs, and Christmas stories, I know that they do not represent a short an...

Cindy's new people have been emailing my brother with updates, and the latest is this: my photo "You'd think she had...

I baked cookies today, but it's not enough.  I've got to make more. There are worse things than the aroma of chicken soup, ...

which lasted about two minutes.  But it really was the perfect shade of red.

Hark the glad sound! The Savior comes, the Savior promised long: let every heart prepare a throne, and every voice a song. ...

Yesterday I baked cookies for the library cookie sale. I haven't used cookie cutters for I don't know how long - it was fun, a...

There was a string of lights hanging around with nowhere to go, so I taped it to the center of the window over the kitchen sink.  The...

ususally manage to warm the heart - from Susan , who hasn't been blogging for a while This charming communication may as well h...

Cindy went to her new home today. After nine and a half months, it's a relief to have some normalcy, but... I do miss her. She was cu...