This old cherry was dying little by little and now with a push from the storm seems to have just missed that budget arbor we put in. Here ...

I am putting it off as long as I can.   This morning was filled with hot and sweaty work outside.   Lots of lifting and carrying and putt...

Let's see: Front yard is a lake There is actually a groundhog eating clover in the front yard in the torrential downpour! Back yard ...

I just noticed that my last post on this blog was the 1,000th.  Quite the journalistic diarrhea I have going on here.  I didn't notice o...

As a grandmother on 24/7 duty this week, I do not have time to post anything!  So go to Bob Brady's     post here    and get an upliftin...

The morning has been washed with last night's rain and the air is cooler than it has been in almost a month.  One might actually think t...

She is tapping away on the keys to her laptop thanking someone who commented on her photo on the photo site where she adds to her collection...

My grandchildren are blessed with more than any child needs.  They are being raised by responsible parents who help them develop a good valu...

I have never been a heavy sleeper and even less so as I age unless my day has been particularly stressful.  Seems that catching a 4-year-old...

It is three in the morning in a dark bedroom and I am on my knees with my face almost to the carpet.  This is not an EAT=PRAY=LOVE moment as...

I am leaving in two days for a 10 hour trip with a car full of toddlers (with colds) and more STUFF than any human deserves or needs...alt...

I somehow got on this dining memory streak and because the writing muse has totally gone on a long vacation deep into the heart of some bla...

I may have written about this a long time ago, but I am thinking not.  When my daughter was an only child (for about 2.5 years) we did a bit...

We borrowed a sailboat and took an afternoon sail. Went looking for ice cream with daughter and caught this image. Not as many but...

Trying to keep track of her is like trying to keep track of that annoying summer fly in the bedroom while you are reading.  She buzzes in an...

The world if full of annoyances which if not ignored will drive us to tearing our hair and screaming into the night sky. So we ignore ...

Here is another take on people that help us. I first met Oscar about 4 years ago when we were putting in our lawn to this new house. (The...

I was thinking about the responses to my last post. If you are a handyman, it is hard to sit back and watch others do the work when you cann...

Middle class folks such as those of my household do not often ask for help on big projects from our neighbors.   In an agrarian society, bar...

In my last post I mentioned that I had been doing some volunteer work for a local environmental group.  This involved hiking a mile through ...