Well, the energy I was riding before, played itself out before Christmas arrived, so I had to push through to finish everything before my three children and future son-in-law arrived. But because I had got so much done earlier, it was a very nice holiday ( Read more... )

This was the first day it stayed cold -- it never got much above freezing.  And you could tell it was cold, because there was a line-up at the air pump at the gas station.  Everyone's low tire pressure indicators came on!  Mine included ( Read more... )

Florida was very relaxing, and I'm glad, because we really needed the rest.  Also, for the first time, it really felt like someplace we could live, eventually.  And I'm not worried about hot summers because there's always plenty of air conditioning you could duck into.  But up here in the winter it's freezing outside but a lot of places inside ( Read more... )

Autumn will come and here it will gear up for busy-ness ( Read more... )

My friend readthisandweep speaks of her view returning with the falling of the leaves. At my house, the geography is such that I really can't see any farther. But I can see closer in. In each of my two little maples, there is a robin's nest left over from the summer ( Read more... )

It will be a different one for us, this year. Everyone's going their separate ways ( Read more... )