Well gang, Guavmom spent the better part of yesterday, and some of this morning, with scissors, Mod Podge decoupage glue, and two National Wildlife Federation catalogs, working on the 3-D art postcard project I wrote about a few days ago. My friend, Ladystitch, out in California sent me an "art trading card" last weeek. Hers was a fabric collage ( Read more... )

No, no, no. I'm not gone. Just taking a break of sorts ( Read more... )

Some of you might remember me writing about my friend vyazatel who visited me at New Year's. He came all the way from Boston, and then I didn't hear from him for two weeks and wasn't sure he'd arrived safely home. Well, thankfully he did, and he's busy making plans for this summer. They're very worthwhile and exciting. You see, he's hoping to join a ( Read more... )

Today was Corlin's graduation from Keuka College. Girlfriend got her BS in Early Education Studies. I am so proud of her. I've known Corly since she was 16, and still in HS. In her second year of community college, she got pregnant with Autumn, and it took two more years to get back to school and finish ( Read more... )

...which at this time of the year is also synonymous with Santa's Workshop ( Read more... )

So gang, the latest news is that I have a brand new, temporary roomate. John is prolly five years younger to me, which kinda eliminates him from the boy toy category. Hahahahaha! But, he needs a place to stay while he's cleaning out the barn across the road in which he has had a ton of his things stored, and goodness knows, I've got an extra ( Read more... )

So Corlin swung by to take me food shopping and we opted for going locally to our friendly neighborhood Menonite Bulk Foods store. Poor Autumn has been sick all week with a stomach bug, so she wasn't her usual ebullient self ( Read more... )

Well kidlets, I spent a rather productive morning and actually made some headway around here. I re-potted a plant, watered the rest, cleared the better part of my entryway, and got some diminishing of stuff accomplished on the front porch ( Read more... )

Good old Central New York! Right up until two days before Guav and Bea's wedding, we were basking in 80 degree weather, and clear, sunny skies. Good old Murphy's Law was alive and well this past weekend, but Bea, the sorceress, managed to roll with the punches and pull off one of the most beautiful of weddings ever ( Read more... )

Six days, and counting to the social event of the year: Guav and Bea's wedding! Yay! I get to meet Bea's family and firends, and hang out with Guavie's crew too. AND, I get to dress up! The arch to get married underneath is supposedly en route to my house, and I guess Marianne and I will have to show up early in Ithaca to assemble it, and to ( Read more... )