I’ve signed up to participate in Ten on Tuesday, in which a bunch of us come up with our own answers to preselected topics. This week’s topic: Ten ways to entertain a child. I managed to acquire grandkids without having kids myself and I have a serious background in aunting (is too a word) with [...]
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These irises started blooming about the time the tree peony blossoms died back. Now they’re both faded and the summer flowers are coming on. And peas! I have peas! OK, maybe only enough for one meal if you have a tiny appetite, but these make me happy. They’re bigger than this now and I’ve been [...]
Brain chatter – the May edition
Posted in garden, Knitting, Life, Uncategorized on May 26th, 2010
ETA: to add links I was too lazy to do yesterday and clarify a point here and there. It seems like a century since I was last here. ~ The travels for health and pleasure are finished for a while. Jack has been checked out tip to toe and the upshot is he’ll be a [...]
It’s been an incredibly busy couple of weeks and I’ll get around to a recap next week. The last post was about the garden and there’s been much progress made. It still looks mostly like piles of dirt but there are green things planted and hopefully some of them will grow. ~~ Tomorrow my sisters [...]
We were married in a small church a few miles from where I grew up. My sister Gail was my maid of honor, my brother Ronald walked me down the aisle. Jack’s brother-in-law Bob was his best man. After the wedding and luncheon, most everyone went to an after-wedding party at my Mom’s home where [...]
Have I mentioned how much I like pansies? They’re the first flowers I buy each spring. I can’t wait to plant them, even if they get buried under 6 inches of snow the day after. They’re easy to care for, always bright and cheerful, come in more colors than daffodils, and a bed of them [...]
What happened to the last week? It disappeared in a flash. Here’s a snapshot. The granddaughters are the short ones in the front The granddaughters came and we played all week. Hallmark’s Kaleidoscope, lunch at the Crayola Cafe, shopping, Junie B Jones and A Little Monkey Business at Theatre for Young America, lunch out again, [...]
What do you do when you’re away from home, staying in a dreary residential hotel and you need to entertain a group? For various reasons you don’t want to meet at a restaurant and the kitchen isn’t really intended for cooking. Here’s all you need for a quick, low-stress get-together. First, find a good supermarket [...]
Would you like crackers with your pea soup?
Posted in Life on Mar 9th, 2010
The only thing worse than driving across the state of Iowa in March is driving across the state of Iowa in March in a fog so thick that you get tunnel vision: nothing to see to the right or left, up or down, except a blanket of white cotton; nothing in the rear view mirror [...]
I saw her first
Posted in Life on Mar 8th, 2010
Buzz off buster Based upon their loud and aggressive posturing that would.not.end until I reminded them that pooping on my deck was not included in the Complete and Unabridged Handbook of Canada Geese Mating Rituals (not even in the end notes), I’m guessing these are males establishing territorial rights over our back yard and some [...]
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