Chilly, gray, rainy day, third in a row. It's actually pleasant in a way; it's relaxing. Sunny days make me feel like I should be OUTSIDE. Winter makes me want to stay inside. The biggest inside-thing going on right now is painting all the rooms in my house. It's time to get rid of the renter's-special boring ecru and pick my own colors. I'm ( Read more... )

The house I grew up in was one of those organically evolving homesteads in rural Tennessee. It started out a one-room cabin, then another room was added and so on... It ended up as a central room with two rooms on either "end" and a covered porch on either side -- the house had burned once, and when they rebuilt it, they wanted every room to have ( Read more... )

I didn't get to see the lunar eclipse last Thursday, because it was overcast and about to snow heavily. *pout* Oh well. The last and I think only total lunar eclipse I saw was with my mom; we watched it together in the back yard of the old house ( Read more... )