Changes are happening in the little homestead. Our garden is growing in the backyard, the flower garden in the front yard has given us lots of beautiful surprises in the last couple of months. Last fall, I dug up a bunch of daylilies from my aunt’s front yard and put them in the front yard [...]
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keeping in check
This spring will probably not be remembered as the learning-to-keep-myself-in-check season, but it probably should be. Bryan has always been a good balance for me and when I start to get a bit overstressed or over-analytical, he always seems to remind me of the wonderful things we have. Turning 35 this past December was a [...]
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It’s been a while. I’ve been trying to keep myself busy with class work, work, volunteering and reading. Classes started on January 20 with Young Adult Literature and Storytelling. It’s been a good start to a final semester. But I’ve had a hard time keeping myself motivated while living alone. I just find so many [...]
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I’m proud to say that for the first time in the four years I’ve participated in Socktoberfest this is the first time that I’ve actually started and finished a sock in October. ** I stand corrected, in 2006 I actually knit an entire pair of socks in the month of October.** To be completely honest [...]
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It’s so hard to say good-bye. I didn’t think it would come this quickly, but we had to put Chloe to sleep yesterday. She hadn’t been the same since George died and the last week she just wasn’t doing well. It was obvious she missed George terribly and just didn’t know what it meant to [...]
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My classes this summer have been keeping me very busy. I’m having a lot of fun in both classes, which is how summer classes should be. I’ve also managed to get a little sewing in during my breaks from reading. My Adult Popular Literature is an online class and I’ve been reading science fiction, fantasy, [...]
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Bang, bang, bang. That’s pretty much what we heard in our apartment from Thursday last week until Monday this week. Thank goodness the rain made them finish up on Monday evening. They were redoing the roof of our apartment building and didn’t take a day off. I was so ready for them to finish so [...]
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