Wool and Spice

I wasn’t the only one in the family who finished a project just before year-end. Introducing Mirabelle who decided to arrive three weeks early,on Christmas Eve, in the middle of a blizzard. The reports say her brother is unimpressed with her timing or her arrival. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the [...]

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We woke to 8 inches of snow this morning. Not freezing rain, not sleet, but thick, heavy, dry snow like I remember from my Vermont childhood.  Last night’s winds had blown the snow so one side of the deck might only have 5 inches, but the other would have a drift a foot high. A [...]

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We  have sunshine today and no snow except a few grimy snow banks here and there. Snow flurries are predicted for Christmas Eve and since we’re not traveling I’ll be happy to see it. But when it’s done snowing, give me back the sunshine. Today  is Christmas card writing, package wrapping and napping day. For [...]

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Lego my Santa. Three inches tall. 1. 2. Send out Christmas cards. 2. 1. Buy Christmas cards. 3. Make cookies, biscotti and a double batch of Christmas stollen. 4.  Finish the Christmas knitting. 5.  Bake annual mincemeat pie for the woodworker. 6. 7. Wrap and mail presents. 7. 6. Buy presents. 8.  Throw together some [...]

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I’m not much of a collector of things. By “things” I mean objects that you acquire multiples of in all variations just for the satisfaction of owning them. I don’t consider the thousands of books I own (or the yarn and fiber) as collections since I bought them for a specific purpose. They educate, entertain, [...]

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At the beginning of November I found a poem by Clyde Watson that I really liked. Throughout the month I used several of the lines for the titles of posts. My original idea was to use the whole poem as titles but didn’t get that far because a) I didn’t post that often and b) [...]

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We were out of the house at 5 am this morning taking Carrie to the airport. When we drove by Wal-M*  the parking lot was packed with bargain hunters. Ditto the strip malls. It was weird to have the streets full of traffic at that hour. We decided to get breakfast out of the way [...]

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Carrie and Jack and I started our Thanksgiving with breakfast out and a walk in the woods at Weston Bend State Park. A sunny but cold morning.  We met many like-minded walkers and runners getting in an hour of exercise before the onslaught of food and football.  A smiling beagle puppy was happy to run [...]

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I love a beautiful sunrise. It’s something that I miss living where I do. It seems the most we usually get are pale pink skies before the sun comes up fully. And with days getting shorter as November progresses, I can sleep a little later and still catch the dawn pink that heralds the start [...]

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I bet this looks like just a glass on a piece of cardboard to you, doesn’t it? Well, you’d be wrong; wrong I say. It’s actually a cleverly disguised trap for disgusting creepy crawlies. I cannot stand to squash, smash, smish, smoosh, squeeze, stomp or or otherwise annihilate insects. It just gives me the icks. [...]

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