Monthly Archives: April 2009

Book Review: Three Cups of Tea

Posted on April 30, 2009 by K

I don’t read non-fiction.  Like contracts and warrantees and instruction manuals.  Like informational books.  Reading this stuff gives me anxiety.  Like the summer I read Protein Power (Eades), the 678 page GoLive manual and the Zone, all in a couple … Continue reading →

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Thinking about thinking

Posted on April 28, 2009 by K

So Chaz and I were having lunch with Toni yesterday (thank you Ms. Toni – I am remembering that lunch fondly and with some regret that it’s over) and we were talking about a mess of stuff.  Honestly, we are … Continue reading →

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So much depends on small yellow boots

Posted on April 27, 2009 by K

We lost our tomatoes last night.  They froze.  So did our windshield.  But I refused to accept that as truth; I wouldn’t scrape the windshield.  I just pulled out of the driveway and faced the car into the sun and … Continue reading →

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The Inner Cinderella

Posted on April 26, 2009 by K

After I read Marilyn’s comment the other day, I looked up the now famous Boyle “make-over.”  Yeah—everybody’s got a right to change her hair color.  But what distressed me was the new expression on her face in that picture – … Continue reading →

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Saturday

Posted on April 25, 2009 by K

HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading →

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Queen for a day

Posted on April 21, 2009 by K

 I remember, one year, being cheerful audience at our local quilt guild’s big quilt show.  They presented the Quilt Most Likely to Knock Your Eyes Out  to a wonderful piece of work: elegant, complex and demanding in design and stitchery, … Continue reading →

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Rachel, Sophie and the Blustery Day

Posted on April 20, 2009 by K

If I ever decide to go riding on a windy day again, remind me: this never turns out well. It was on a blustery day that I fell off my horse (for the first and only time in the real … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 16, 2009 by K

First of all, may I tell you that after all that snow yesterday, the sun came out and melted it all?  We went to bed looking forward to more spring, which we thought would come bounding back today.  Ummm.  At … Continue reading →

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Oh, what a diff a day can make –

Posted on April 15, 2009 by K

First: here’s what the Rachel bunny brought us for Easter –   Yesterday: TODAY: Something about April being the cruelest month?

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Needles and wings

Posted on April 13, 2009 by K

I don’t know why this would be, but at this moment, this very moment in time, I feel great.  It doesn’t make any sense, because I’ve been dragging around here half awake for months.  Maybe it’s because the sun’s out … Continue reading →

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