Autumn Arrives
I am writing this on a laptop sitting at a kitchen counter. An area I am now calling my office. I’ve been inundated suddenly with writing projects, some of which require extensive phone interviews, so beside me are a notepad, a cell phone, and the house phone. I have been exchanging emails with an aide from the governor’s office. However, lest you think I am getting too fancy, I am also wearing pajama pants, which is by far the most exciting part of this line of work. My seco
Friday Project: The week in photos (week 5, August 8)
Well, I missed a week. Technology is my nemesis. I had all the photos chosen and uploaded, the text written, the layout laid out, and the draft saved. Then it got “lost.” Sigh. It didn’t help that my heart was and is really hurting. You see, I also just lost Betty, one of the little calves I was raising. She had grown big and was thriving, and then suddenly she was dead. Just like that. I am also losing my sweet cat, Charles Dickens. He went missing, then came back, but he is
Friday Project: the week in photos (week 3, July 18th)
Happy Summer everyone! I said it last week, and it has certainly been true -- midsummer is here in all it's glory. This was a week of beautiful mornings, warm, lazy afternoons, and long, rosy dusks. Every evening this week I have said, "It really is a perfect summer evening , isn't it?" And every evening it has been true. We also had some surprises -- in the form of kittens! In last week's photos I wrote about Roxy and the hope that she might appear with babies...how we disc
