Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Laurelle’s comment on my tree prompted me to post my favorite Christmas song.
This is my all-time Christmas favorite. It may seem really corny, but listen to the words. Forget that it is about a cartoon dog and his imaginary world – listen to the words.
The words are great, but they are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Everyone left me today: Don went into the mountains and the kids went off to church. I got up late, made coffee and decorated the Christmas tree.
It gives me a sense of peace to decorate the tree (once I have the lights on, that is: putting the lights on the tree never goes peacefully). I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Darn. Time out, again. Life is so hard when you are two years old. It’s time out for this and time out for that.
Don’t I look sorry? I promise I will kiss and make it up to you.
Posted in u-cut Christmas trees, tagged Christmas trees, u-cut Christmas trees in Oregon. Roy's U-Cut on November 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally our “get-the-heck-outta-Dodge” day. We’ve tried shopping on Black Friday, but neither Don nor I like crowds and the more commercial it becomes, the further from the madness we want to be.
We cut our Christmas tree on Black Friday. Traditionally, we go up into the National Forest to pick out [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged band tailed pigeons, family, Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Our Thanksgiving Day was pretty quiet. The babies were up too early and the men slept in. Arwen fed children and prepared yams. I got up and poured myself a cup of coffee. Walking across the kitchen, WHAM! – my back went out. Just like that. Major spasms in the upper left quadrant that abated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was a beautiful day today. I just wanted to share that.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fairies, fairy, fairy rings. on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The weather was beautiful today! The sun came out and the rain went away. I got in two beautiful walks in the business park where I work (which is a lovely business park with low red-brick buildings; tall hedges; plantings of oaks, maples, cedars and Doug fir; and numerous ponds with walkways and lots of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m always picking up stuff and putting it into my pocket. Agates, seed pods, acorns, whatever. Then I collect all those items in my craft room (the room that is presently non-existent) for use on some project, some day in the future.
Sometimes, found items grow dust on the tins on the ledge of the window [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am doing this ProjectFeeder Watch for Cornell University. Yesterday and today, I have been monitoring the birdfeeder and the area I can see from our kitchen window. It has been a productive weekend for birds and not all of them in the feeder. I’ve seen several flocks of different species in my neighbor’s yard [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you feel like a nut.
He looked like he wanted to share his acorn with me.
