Searching for a Balance

 It actually snowed yesterday! Around lunchtime - we were at work, it was overcast, with rain predicted. Then it turned to snow for about an...

 Okay. While getting ready for work, I heard my brother, Come 'ere, come here, hurry! I thought it must be a bear in the backyard or som...

 We had two or three summery days last week. I had the week off; my co-workers have often told me that I pick the best weeks to be on vacati...

 "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darknes...

 A few nights ago it got down into the thirties. Now, we're having summer again, with four days in a row of the seventies and up to eigh...

 I went outside to put more cardboard in a raised bed, and somebody was at the door when I came back. Well, two somebodies.

 I was planning to toss the morning glory pots, and then there was this. Is the leaf trying to get a point across? The weather is supposed ...

 Jesus says to those who seek him, I will never pass you by; Raise the stone and you will find me; Cleave the wood, and there am I. Where th...

 Another weekend with rain; it's a sure thing, every weekend there seems to be a tropical storm in the Atlantic that passes by (not too ...

 I think it's peak foliage days around here. It was sunny, and then overcast, back and forth all day. I finally got outside in late afte...

  It's that ol' sugar maple.

 Well, I couldn't finish the H.G. Wells story, but I couldn't put down Out of the Silent Planet. What a contrast in the way the two ...

 I found some Empires!  And there's a cranberry apple pie in the oven. 

  All creatures of our God and King, Life up your voice and with us sing Alleluia, alleluia! Thou burning sun with golden beam, Thou silver ...

 They just played the October poem on the radio -  if you missed my post about it last year,   HERE IT IS . And here's why I posted it.

 I went outside first thing to put more cardboard in the garden area, and there were so many diamonds in the lawn!  Can you see them? At the...

 I watch the sugar maple for its daily changes because it can get so brilliant in October. But capturing it is so hard - I'm sure I don...

 "The day of the home dressmaker seems to have gone in most places. This is a pity for the town dressmaker was a grand institution. Whe...

 Speaking of singing, we sang At the Name of Jesus in church yesterday: At the Name of Jesus At the name of Jesus ev'ry knee shall bow, ...

  I put on my little wellies and sloshed outside to throw more cardboard into the raised bed. It rained all day yesterday with a lighter rai...

 I've read that is one has lots of debt in several places, it's best to pay off the smallest, then the next, and so on. Well, I'...

  It was cold this morning.

 Hurricane Ophelia has been passing by at a distance, and so there's been a couple of rainy days here. I spent some time today switching...

 "Come to me, all you that yearn for me, and be filled with my fruits; you will remember me as sweeter than honey, better to have than ...

 A true September day - the stillness of it. I can hear insects repeating themselves in the way they do, but otherwise, it's quiet. No b...

I first posted about this nine years ago! Well, it's still excellent. I'm talking about the chocolate avocado pudding: Heat up 1/2 c...

 The stay under this thing which generates warmth for them.  I picked this one up today - so cute!

 I couldn't get the chick photos off my tablet for some reason, so I'll have to take some more tomorrow. They grow fast. I made the ...

 "I will cleanse them of all the guilt they incurred by sinning against me; all their offenses by which they sinned and rebelled agains...

We're having some nice weather, but it still feels like summer, just late summer. I can hear the katydids outside now.  A customer gav...

 Today was dry and beautiful. Which is saying something, because it's been so humid and un-September-like. But at the beginning of the m...