The sun was out today. It was shining brightly. But then the small bedroom it was very bright and quite enjoyable in the morning when I got up late around 9:45. The sun was coming in from the east. I went downstairs and found it was rather dark in comparison. Actually there was no comparison. It was just dark. I had to turn on all the series ( Read more... )

The back door lock has failed. The door won't open. The bolt part is stuck in the shut position. I took it apart. It fell on the outside and I'm on the inside ( Read more... )

The new snow is very pretty. I should go to church but I am afraid of driving in the five inches of new snow. Willem drives through anything. I wish they would just cancel church when it snows like this ( Read more... )

I talked to Willem about the situation. I want to phone and give a scathing call to someone but know I will just regret it later. Somewhere in all of this I'm not supposed to eat over it. All that crap hysteria about obesity. You know, you can't hate jews, you can't hate blacks, you can't hate disabled people, but everyone can hate an obese ( Read more... )

Feeling lazy. I have boiled down about 20lbs of beef fat, dividing it up into 8c lots ( Read more... )

I am chilled to the bone, but the room is warm. I finally got up and put on my boots to walk past the wet stuff on the floor in the kitchen, out into the woodshed and bring in some wood to stoke up the fire ( Read more... )

I was so bummed out about being hot outside and had nothing to interest me inside, that I gave up and went to bed at about 3Pm. I slept till six. Willem came in when I woke up. He had a lovely smile as he talked to me. It made me very happy inside ( Read more... )

I didn't want to get out of bed and have another dreary day sitting in my chair with gmail et al, so I lay there trying to figure out how to deal with the empty house and the lonliness. Depression is at the door. I wanted to just stay in bed and sleep the day away ( Read more... )

I know why I've been lonely! I've not been journaling very much. There is something amazing and wonderful that happens when I journal. I talk to my best friend, which is ME ( Read more... )

I am sitting outide in the swing in the warm corner of the house. I just took a shower to clean off the back of my hair where it got all of that glycerine on it. not good ( Read more... )