Searching for a Balance

Okay, so Sue said that New England cottontails don't dig burrows like European rabbits do. I looked it up, and found this . And after se...

We noticed a rabbit inside the garden again a few days ago. So now we think they have an entrance (or exit) to their warren inside the garde...

I didn't hang out the sheet till six o'clock, but it still had time to dry.  And I ate the rest of the strawberries. (No freezer ...

I love to make a big deal out of Midsummer Day if I can. I am working tomorrow, but tonight it's the eve, so I thought I'd try m...

Well, I just deleted all the photos I took this month. By accident, of course - the whole folder for June 2020. except this one Thi...

"If they had lost the dearest country on earth [England], they had no choice but to create another dear country in its place."  ...

Have you ever seen anything so ridiculous? She was actually dozing in that position. I looked out and saw a contrail lit up near the ...

Today was the church feast of Corpus Christi, which refers to the Body of Christ. There is an irony in this, since the churches were closed ...

Yesterday I got lots done early, and when it got too warm and humid, Dolly said she wanted to go out. So, we did. The trees are done, b...

I made another mask today. My brother took several to his workplace, and there they are; I have three, but I'd rather have a few more...

Feeling the breeze come in, I seized a pleasant opportunity to wash a window. I'll focus on the one clean. Rather than how many are d...

The past two days have been August-like, meaning that I lost all my stuffing and kept sitting down to read in between doing things which had...

Yesterday and today, I've been hearing the sweetest singing out my window. You can ignore the scenery - you've seen it before. ...

My God, I bless you in your great good works, For your gifts, your marvels, and all your kindnesses, For the treasures of your love, pe...

It's Pentecost, and the end of the Easter season. My brother starts back to work tomorrow. He will be working twelve hour days, six da...

I finished two more face masks today. My brother finally goes back to his shop Monday and I wouldn't want him to be short on masks. Of c...

I've been listening to the talks given during the Anselm Society's conference, Imagination Redeemed. At the end of this one , this p...

"...the Lord wills that all people be whole and sound and turn toward true knowledge. ...He hears their prayers when they call to him a...

My knitting is about twenty two inches long now,but the ball of yarn seems as huge as ever. I can't possibly keep going until it'...

My brother got a cookie mix for Christmas, in addition to all the actual cookies. Which are long gone, of course. But this mix was still aro...

There's a rabbit who appears across the brook most days, usually in the evenings. They can stay so still, can't they? Indefinitel...

Pentecost is in nine days. The disciples of Jesus prayed after He ascended, then the Holy Spirit came nine days later. We also will pray unt...

Little Annie is a year old today. Well, we don't know what day she was born, but May twenty first was on the receipt the last tim...

Overnight, I went from wearing my flannel nightgown to one of my summer ones. There's no going back now.

The little dogwood looks particularly lovely this spring. At last. A package came yesterday from our cousins in New York. Yoko made f...

When the weather got nice, we put the little Kibble figure out on the back stoop. Cyndi said it's made to be outdoors, but we still wan...

This one likes to go up and underneath the chair covers. We laugh a lot here.

A couple of weeks ago someone from the town came to the library with cloth masks for all of us. I've been bookmarking youtube video...

After the warmth of the previous weekend I expected things were taking a turn, but the weatherman is still saying we are twenty degrees cool...

"Since we are all so different, every so often I ask myself how God can love every single one of us with a unique, specific, and person...

Who can resist, when they have such a tree in their yard, taking photos?