Category Archives: Just life

~:: The Payoff ::~

Posted on April 6, 2011 by K

This weekend is one of my two favorite ones on the year.  My very favorite weekend is the first one in October.  These are the times when my faith celebrates its general conference, when folks all over the planet listen … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Fun Stuff, Gin, Images, The g-kids, The kids, Visits | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 33 Comments

~:: Trailing along ::~

Posted on April 5, 2011 by K

How does anybody ever have time to do anything? Things may have settled down in theory, but in the real world?  No.  It’s not that anything important is happening.  I’m waiting to see if our house is going to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Images, Just life, Seasons, snow | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

~:: April 1 ::~

Posted on April 2, 2011 by K

I have no idea what kind of origins gave birth to April Fools’ Day, though I’m pretty sure it had something to do with young men in love in Spring.  Things are winding down a little here, and as I … Continue reading →

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~:: Flowers ::~

Posted on April 1, 2011 by K

I wonder why we put so much stock in flowers? Just now, as the weather plays its almost cruel games of bate and switch on us, I find myself counting the small clumps of brave and early bloomers as promises.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Images, Just life | Tagged , | 12 Comments

A Message and St. Patrick

Posted on March 17, 2011 by K

We, along with all of you I’m certain, have been watching the unfolding story of Japan with horror and sorrow.  Even short of compassion, there is a Hopkins Spring and Fall realization that has to come to us with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Explanations, The outside world | Tagged , | 11 Comments

How I felt about Autumn

Posted on March 11, 2011 by K

In honor of those whose summer is winding down: Just for fun.

Posted in Fun Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, Seasons | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

~:: Just Remembering ::~

Posted on March 7, 2011 by K
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I Still Felt that Way

Posted on March 4, 2011 by K

So, I felt a little put-upon, not having any hearts left for myself. Thus, I made a few more. Three smaller ones and a special one. These guys are really easy to make. They just look hard. Yeah, should have … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things | Tagged , , | 51 Comments

::: From the neighboring ridge . . . :::

Posted on March 3, 2011 by K

Comes an answering howl: an answer, indeed, to my own little self. I believe that every blogger (can that really be a noun?) eventually comes to the place where she/he wonders why the heck she/he feels so compelled to share … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Just life, Just talk | Tagged , , | 32 Comments

::: Howling :::

Posted on March 2, 2011 by K

Tonight, G picked up his plate and stalked into the kitchen.  “I am sick of the government,” he said. (He did NOT slam the plate down on the counter. Not my new plates, he wouldn’t.)  We’d been listening to the … Continue reading →

Posted in IMENHO (Evidently not humble), Just life, Just talk, mad, whining | Tagged , , , , , | 22 Comments