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Last day

Today was the last day for a while that I’ll be able to sleep past 7:15.  It’s the last day that I’ll be able to sit on the couch with a knitting project, listening to a couple of podcasts, making something for myself without unanswered business email hanging over my head.
Tomorrow Neil goes back to [...]

Where have I been?

Two posts from me on New Year’s Eve and then nothing.  It’s three days into the new year, and where have I been?  Well, see, the beautiful thing about having a husband who works in education is that he generally gets a Christmas break just like the kids do.  This translates into long, cozy days [...]

Merry merry!

Oh, it is such a good feeling to be done making gifts and done shopping.  It was down to the wire, considering I was still weaving in yarn ends on a pile of fingerless mitts at 10:00 last night, but done is done, no matter how close you cut it, I say!  Today’s agenda includes [...]

Do you do this?

And by “this” I mean, get sucked into reading old posts on your own blog?
Do you innocently follow a link back to something you said four months ago, and then find yourself spending the next hour reading about berry-picking, swimming, and lemonade smoothies?
Or do you maybe look back to the post you wrote exactly [...]

An end to the (almost) silence

Whew.  Glad that’s over.  Interesting as it was to try and take reasonably compelling photos of everyday tasks and let them speak for themselves here, I do prefer being able to sit down for a while in the evenings with my thoughts and share a bit.  And that includes words.  Often many of them.
So, I’m [...]

Week of Few Words

I’m planning on having one of those incredibly insane weeks.  And while I love my blogging time, and my picture-taking time, there are more pressing things to attend to.  If I want to blog and play with my camera this week, I will have to do so with a dual purpose. So…
This week, I will [...]

Noticing

I was struck yesterday by the small ways in which I’ve changed since I began blogging more regularly.  I was working on my jewelry display, deciding where things would go for that night’s vendor fair, and putting hang tags on items that needed them, when I saw it:  a picture that needed taking.  And it [...]

Focus, Lisa, focus!

Hey, friends, I’ve decided to take a little blog break.  Not a big one… you know I couldn’t stay away for very long!  I just have a list of things I’d like to accomplish in the near future, and I am finding myself entirely too distracted by bloglike things.  I need to make myself focus.
I’m [...]

Pleasant Monday

After the stifling humidity of yesterday and last night, it was a sweet surprise to be greeted by a breezy, pleasant, 70-degree morning.  Monday is vacuum day around here.  And dusting day.  And all other manner of once-a-week cleaning day, and I promise I will make a decent effort in that direction before too long.  [...]

Firsts, lasts, milestones

Today I went to the farm.  I was looking for zinnias and honeycrisp apples like last year, but there were no apples to be had.  It was disappointing, but I did manage to come home with something else nifty:  my first ever batch of farm-fresh multi-colored eggs!
Yeah, I know.  Where have I been not to [...]