Category Archives: Just life

The new addition –

A few minutes ago, G announced cheerfully that today, M had been gone eight months!  Only he was wrong.  He had it wrong.  Nobody around here is allowed to round up anything relative to time passing—time is only what it actually … Continue reading

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Two-fer

In honor of the fact that Gin is HERE, or has been (who has time to post things when they could be hanging with the angels?), and that it was kind of her birthday, we hauled out the ancient garland … Continue reading

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And Mommy starts to fade

           Among the myriad things my mother taught me—the fastest way to make somebody laugh is to tell them not to, sewing can be fun as long as you don’t get your thumbnail involved in the seams, … Continue reading

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In case you were wondering

This is what it’s like to have horses: You get up in the morning. (Some people do this earlier than I do. Let me just explain that I get up WAY earlier than I would if I didn’t know people … Continue reading

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Little Cat Feet –

Fog. We live in a high mountain valley.  Every January (Dad, don’t read this), a ridge of high pressure will settle over us in what they call an “inversion.”  I’m not sure what’s inverted, exactly.  But it’s like we’re a … Continue reading

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Apology

The snow.  When I finally dragged my sorry bones to the barn this morning, I made a conscious choice not to take the camera.  You can’t take a camera everywhere, darn it.  And it was twenty degrees, and there’s all … Continue reading

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Snow and Sunday Evening, illustrated –

A picture saves a thousand words.  I wonder what a vid saves, then?  I sent the vid.  Now, I send pictures, just odds and ends from the end of one world and the beginning of another.  Take heart; life rolls … Continue reading

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This is an important notification:

Nobody calls us on the land line anymore. Well, that’s not true. Laura calls sometimes to check on the visiting teaching. And Cam uses it when he can’t raise me on the cel. But honestly? The only reason I keep … Continue reading

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It may be subzero . . .

But there’s still revelry in THIS house:

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Okay, now – so it goes in which column?

         It is a good thing to remember to eat your fruits and vegetables.  If you don’t, you’ll be forced to fill in the deficit with chocolate.  In this cheerful season of diversity and culinary debauchery, you can … Continue reading

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