Archive for summer

Joy in the daydream

Skirt weather has arrived, and oh, how I have missed it!  I didn’t realize quite how much until I spent yesterday twirling around in my favorite a-line.  Skirt-wearing brings a sort of effervescence with it that I find hard to capture in other ways.  I suppose it’s just that it makes me feel “girly,” which [...]

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September after all

Several times in the last few days I’ve said “this month,” when referring to things we’d actually done in August.  I couldn’t seem to wrap my brain around it being September yet.  I mean, really.  September?  Already? Hmmm.  Maybe so… We’ve got (slightly hail-damaged) Honeycrisp apples, fresh off the tree. I made applesauce today.  Tomorrow, [...]

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Oh, August

Oh, August.  What am I going to with you?  Every year it’s the same thing: I see that precious summertime is slipping away and I panic.  During the month of July I pass my afternoons quietly lounging in the back yard with the kids and forgetting the art of budgeting my time.  I let my [...]

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Summer weekend

I don’t know why it took me so long to do a little Summer entertaining, but I suspect it won’t be so long before I do it again.

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The Summer Checklist

We’ve had such odd weather since the kids have been out of school.  So much rain and cool temperatures, that it has not felt like our usual summers have.  We’ve spent a lot more time in front of computer screens than I like to admit, which is why today, when the sun was streaming down [...]

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