Marching Back to School!
It’s Sunday night, the last day of February. I’m reclined in the recliner, watching Searching for Italy with Stanley Tucci. My feet hurt. The kitchen is full of dirty dishes, […]
Tag Archives: winter
Mother Nature and Old Man Winter
Although I still toy with the idea of moving to somewhere more remote and with more nature surrounding me, I am so happy to be where I am and I […]
A Week in the Life
The weekend of 1/23 was great for GSD! I had a somewhat short, thoughtful, targeted list of things to do and got it nearly all done. Saturday, I took F […]
January
I just started using Microsoft OneNote at work, which is like a virtual notebook, with “tabs” and “pages.” And you can have multiple notebooks. Pretty cool. I wonder if I […]
Christmas 2020
It’s 2021 and Christmas seems far away already. But we had a very cozy and quiet December culminating in a . . . cozy and quiet holiday. Very different from […]
Fifty Bucks Til Friday
My place of employment, as of 2019, is switching to a new payroll schedule. What that means for me is that when I got paid last Friday, I only received […]
Calamity Kitchen
Happy holidays from the McGuires’, where the house is still kind of trashed and many surfaces still bear a dusting of fire extinguisher residue. But more on that later! We […]
Goodbye No. 1
Last Saturday was my final farm shift. Wah! Sad day. “Thanks for a being a member,” I said to everyone, all day as they came and went. “Thank you,” they […]
Crafty Cathy
So I finished my first crochet project. It is neither truly done, nor perfect — I need to buy a yarn needle to weave in the ends and attach the pom […]
Hard Truths & Hot Soups
January. A time to reflect. When I think about last year, I feel like it was mostly a good year, on the homefront and in the garden. But it was […]
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