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Hearth and Home

Pre-Christmas shopping — not…

We had to go out and run errands today. I needed to get to Michael’s because I had a coupon for 20% off entire purchase but the sale ended at noon. I bought yarn for a sweater, some felted boots (I’ve had the pattern for a while), and for 3 pairs of socks. Now that […]

Holidays approach… what happened to Thanksgiving

I know I’ve read about this on some other blogs, and I had a long discussion the other day with my Mom about it. But, what happened to Thanksgiving? Here in Maryland we had Halloween, and now we’ve got Christmas. The only nod to Thanksgiving were a couple of pilgrim statues and some posted pictures […]

The bigger they are the harder the fall — or something like that…

We had a bit of excitement this morning. Just about 2 minutes after my husband left for work, I heard a big thump sound that was very reminiscent of the thump of the trees that came down during Hurricane Isabelle a few years back. The problem was that at 7am there’s not that much light […]