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Hearth and Home

House cleaning, reading, and raking leaves… again

Today was one of those days that aren’t too bad  if you can ignore the constant ringing in the ears.  Yesterday, I managed to catch up on a lot of data entry and finished a project.  So, that meant today I could try to get some reading in — the truth is if you don’t […]

Did you ever wonder…?

As readers of this blog may or may not know, we collect bears.  We also have a number of Tigers living in our house.  If any of you also have stuffed furry friends in their abodes, you may know just how often having a few critters about can be handy when things go wrong or […]

Busy Tuesday — really it was…

My busy day I’ll admit is not the same as most people’s busy days. But for me I did a lot. (Remember I’ve got that whole lack of spoon things still going on.) Well, I did the wash, dried,  folded, and put it away. I made bread. Okay so we’ve got a bread machine but […]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Today is Valentine’s Day and I suspect that many people will be sending cards or ecards to their special someone. Most will have X’s on them to represent kisses. I found this bit of an article on Valentine’s Day at How Stuff Works interesting: How about the “X” sign representing a kiss? This tradition started […]

Just another saturday…

Today we made cinnamon-ginger donuts. Came out pretty good and we remembered to get them in containers before they could dry out. Then it was some housework and picking up, followed by going out to do the shopping. We checked three stores looking for the 20 watt halogen lights that fit in our kitchen fixtures […]

Snowmageddon Part 2…

We woke up this morning to this only with more fog… The fog has lessened a bit but the sky is so grey.  The snow is light but the wind is blowing so it’s hard to focus on anything out there except what’s close to you. The birds have been crowding the feeder, we had […]

The storm is over & skies are clear — so far

We had a heck of a bad storm over the weekend. It started snowing on Friday and ended late Saturday night. For the first time in just about forever, I managed to take photo before the storm got going. As you can see, we do have some snow left from the 1/2 to 1 inch […]

It snowed today… again…

We woke up to a thin blanket of snow covering everything.  Yesterday the ground was bare of snow — today a couple of inches so far.  It’s also cold.  Bone chilling cold.  I’ve stayed in all day.  But one thing snow means is that all the little birds in the area flock to your deck […]