Category Archives: Family

first spring –

I always wait till there’s not enough light to shoot decently by, and then neither one of these wiggly people will hold still enough.  But you really do have to shoot forsythia in spring – it’s heart-healthy.  Traditionally, I shoot … Continue reading

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Babysitting –

  Through the looking glass: Gram is Scooter-sitting.            Don’t let these pictures fool you.  I am, at my very best, a reluctant babysitter. There was a time when I was willing to do it for … Continue reading

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Luba

I found Peter Hagerty when I was cruising the web, looking for instructions as to how to make a simple felted wool ball. Don’t ask me why I wanted to do this; there are just so many fascinating materials to … Continue reading

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Ze petite book club

Generally, I don’t belong to things.  One fairly significant church affiliation is about the limit of my claustrophobic soul’s ability to commit itself.  Oh, and marriage and motherhood, both of which took some serious consideration.  This is why I stopped … Continue reading

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In the last bit of March

Today: Snow has long since worn its romance value thin.  The horses think so, too.  But as I came home this morning from the feeding and grabbed the paper off the snowy driveway—all tucked into its red plastic bag against … Continue reading

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Little Britches – more grit

A couple of years ago, Rachel showed up on my doorstep with a bag full of books.  “Gotta read,” she said, and thrust them into my hands.  It was the beginning of my odd journey with Little Britches. As I … Continue reading

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When we were small

Yeah.  A long time ago now.  And all these kids gots kids.  Lots of ’em.

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What a diff a day can make

This was yesterday: It was Levi’s birthday, and so Rachel decided that she would give him a present she could open herself: an afternoon’s ride.  So I ran down to the (farm, pasture, stable???) to tune up my Sophie—who put … Continue reading

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Whoop-de-do!

Rachel came over today to hash over an idiotic book that had driven her nuts (which was fun – and she came on her pink bike.  Wait.  Red?). Before too long, we had stumbled into an entirely accidental idyll of … Continue reading

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There may be alien cultures who (that?) . . .

. . . would not find this child irresistible.   On another planet.  Far, far away from me. Grandson the second.  And friend. Straight out of the tub.  No gel. Cute or what?

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