OK, so maybe for most people chaos does NOT breed contentment. Well, probably it doesn’t work for all people. I like a bit of chaos in my life. If everything runs too smoothly, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and badness to happen. So, I guess I’d have to say that this […]
The problem with holidays is that they end and then it’s back to the usual day by day stuff. The side effect when you work at home is that the detritus of the holidays is all around you — or not detritus per say but the tree is still up and the wreathes. We’ll be […]
It’s me again. A couple of days ago Gayle mentioned here that we were looking for a tree topper. There appears to be two types commonly available: The Angel, and the Star. So far, none of them of really appeal to us. For me, the angel is really a non-starter. I’ve just never like the […]
So, what do you do when faced with writer’s block. Well, I don’t know about you but I clean or attempt to clean the house. It seems that if you can’t do what you should do, you ought to at least try to do something positive. Cleaning is not only a positive activity, it leaves […]
Well, today we had a batch of errands to run. We needed to mail out the books we sold on Amazon, the payments for the bills, and the two boxes to our mothers (1 box each — parity in gift giving reigns in our house). We did the food shopping. Stopped to check out books […]
Well, we were hoping to get some more leaves raked up before the snow came down but the snow beat us to it. At least we got most of the driveway cleared but the garden and orchard is now a lightly snow-covered carpet of leaves. I’m now telling myself that leaves make great mulch and […]
Today we went out and did our usual weekend shopping. You know running all the errands that you can’t or didn’t get to during the week. Yesterday, we spent some time getting housework done and since the air pressure is changing I was pretty migraine-y so we stayed close to home. Since the weekend only […]
I have to confess that Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love the smell of pine and balsam. I’m originally from Maine so maybe that’s why those smells cause me to think of winter holidays. I love the way everyone gets so excited and friendly — all those “happy holiday” greetings from everyone you meet. […]