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Category Archives: Seasons
~:: On Making Things ::~
I wonder, sometimes, how many stupid things I say in a day. How many things that make total sense to me, but that can be, and will probably be, construed differently by the people I say them to? Considering the … Continue reading
~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~
Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here. But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Doing Things, Family, Fun Stuff, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The g-kids
Tagged Andy, Cammon, dresses, fall, Gigi, Guy, Halloween, Lorri, Scooter, sewing
30 Comments
~:: Christmas Day ::~
So, Chaz came to stay overnight on Christmas Eve, as she always does. But she did not get up before dawn. Neither did we. The kids were all going to show up at about nine, so the following pictures are … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Family, Fun Stuff, Gin, HappyHappyHappy, holidays, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids
Tagged Andy, Cam Lorri, Chaz, Christmas Day, dogs, dress, fish, Guy, joy, Laura, Mother Jean's goblets, Murphy, Scooter
13 Comments
~:: December Making ::~
More evening light in the middle of the afternoon. This is what my studio looks like at Christmas. Sewing machine, organic bits of this and that, inorganic bits of this and that – Here is a little deer. I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Fun Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, Seasons
Tagged deer, dress, fabric, fish, paint, presents, robes, sewing, snowflakes, stools, wood
16 Comments
~:: While Rachel was in Cancun ::~
Some people are very insensitive. They forget that not everybody can just jet off at the beginning of December, leaving children for endless blue water, and fairly nice December weather in the mountains for the warm yellow light of the southern … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged arctic foxes, Christmas lights, cold, December, deer, dogs, lots of snow, snow
8 Comments
~:: The Tiniest Family Thanksgiving ::~
Okay. So life gets very complicated when your children grow up and start marrying people, and by default, the other people’s families. Once it was just no big deal, filling up the places at the table. I can remember, both … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Family, holidays, Seasons, The kids
Tagged dinner, holidays, inlaws, kids, Thanksgiving
6 Comments
~:: Just stuff ::~
First this. October – obviously, I guess. Sometimes, I’m just moving through the house in the usual way when suddenly something strikes me as strange and wonderful. In this case, it was two things: the juxtaposition of the quiet dark … Continue reading
~:: 365 Dollars Short ::~
The last time I really felt like telling a story here – I mean, that feeling that drives you to put things into words – was last year. A year ago. And I didn’t do it. It was on a … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Events, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Rachel, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids, The outside world
Tagged family, june, last year, Lorri, Rachel, racing
23 Comments
~:: Yes . . . er . . . ::~
Here’s something I saved till Christmas. And then forgot to do. Give you. Give me, thinking I’m giving it to you. Yes. Our Christmas picture. I browbeat the children into all getting together with Cam’s Big Lights and everything. Then. … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Events, Family, Fun Stuff, HappyHappyHappy, holidays, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids, Visits
Tagged April Fools, cameras, Christmas card, Easter hunt, Genealogy, spring
14 Comments
~ :: The Vagaries of Mortality ::~
Sounds philosophical, huh? Well, that is not my frame of mind today. Today would be a tomato soup day, except I’m on protein shakes, trying to repent of too much culinary fun over the last few months. I don’t feel … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, holidays, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, snow
Tagged construction, dogs, pony, Scooter, snow, softie, spring flowers, stool, tabernacle, Valentine's
17 Comments