I went to church in Kingston. It was so nice to see Corliss, Carma and my dear friend from Stratford days, Lena. I even saw Christine Meyers! I haven’t seen her since I was married to husband #1!

I enjoyed the terrain, the lakes and ponds and hills and valleys and forests! Rocks and trees and water. God’s country.

I stopped to drop off S’s mail and ( Read more... )

Got up around dawn. Did a few exercises, not all of them ( Read more... )

I got up early and wanted to be outside in the winter wonderland. So I put gas in the tank and pulled the crank a lot of times and got the snowblower to turn on. It had snowed a few inches overnight, so I had something to do ( Read more... )

Now lets see if I can remember what I did today.

Scarlett's interested in doing some crafting, so is determined to sort out the sunroom. She's doing it! So much pottery related stuff was in there instead of down in the studio-to-be!

This morning I got up around 5:30 and thought about helping Lida. I was too tired to do it, so got settled again ( Read more... )

Willem and I went for a walk to the pond. It was quite cold outside, -20C or about 0F today. I love the sound of the snow how it squeaks when you step on it ( Read more... )

After deciding that she couldn't go with me to Georgia for a week, Maryjane agreed to come here for the weekend. As soon as she said she could, I jumped in the car and headed to pick her up ( Read more... )

Someone said that I enjoy winter because I do things, like go snowshoeing That's odd for me, since I don't think of myself as being very active anymore. I hope wanted to do some things outside, like walking to the gypsy wagon, and we actually did go down there one day ( Read more... )

I put the turkey bones in a pot, let them boil for awhile, then picked out the bones and the skin and added onions, celery, some dried carrots, brown rice and quinoa. It made a wonderful pot of soup ( Read more... )

I had already had a busy time and was ready to chill out, but Willem decided that since it wasn't snowing yet, we should go to town for the plumbing supplies ( Read more... )

Everything is frozen solid here, except we have the base heaters on now to warm up the house. Willem's got the fire going. It was -4C, or about 23F in the house. The water in the toilets is frozen solid as is the large container of water in the bathtub for flushing the downstairs toilet ( Read more... )