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Multigrain bagel with smoked salmon cream cheese.
Plain yogurt sweetened with a drop or two (or five) of local maple syrup.
Hot kenyan coffee with table cream.
A backyard snowscape filled with small birds at the feeders.

There are days when the things I take for granted remind me of how rich I am…

That is all :>

A sleeping-in day, today. I rose about an hour ago, and found that my youngest was still sleeping, which is the first time ever he's stayed abed past 8:00am that I can remember. He didn't sleep well at all Christmas Eve, and got up madly early Christmas morning, so I guess it all caught up with him ( Read more... )

The mated pair of woodpeckers are squabbling about who gets to eat and who has to sit guard over the suet feeder ( Read more... )

1. How often do you clean your home?

Not often enough! We've casually debated hiring the women who clean my parents' and sister's houses to come and do ours as well, but it's not in the budget right now.

2. What domestic chore do you hate?

Um, all of them? I despise the toilet, though. Despise. That's Vilmos's job.3. What domestic chore do ( Read more... )

Oh, I wish. Darned damp weather is making all my extremities achey. (Actually, the ibu did help my fingers - it's just my toes that protest sheer being ( Read more... )

The cardinals were out in force this morning, pouring their hearts into the air ( Read more... )

Looking back, I notice that I YouTube love songs, and of those, mostly the ones that tend toward heartbreak. So, y'know, a disclaimer - I am not unhappy, nor is my love a tragic one. I just tend to watch the melancholy and soulful - the upbeat and bouncy gets heard, but generally with too much dancing to sit and watch a video ( Read more... )

Just tagging along on the meme going around - join in or not as it pleases you.

Happy Thing #1: Today I shed another knitting albatross. Without any guilt and with a certain degree of relief, I tossed the lace baby blanket I'd begun when we started trying for our third child. It was some beautiful knitting, and would have made a gorgeous ( Read more... )