Morning Sky
Sunrise before 9am and coming three minutes earlier EVERY day! Even more – what a gift when day breaks open like this….
Knock Knock Puzzle
A friend recently asked me what makes a puzzle “good” to me. I’m still working out my answer, but one thing I know: this is a good puzzle. I’ve done it a bunch of times and it remains one of my favorites.
Nathan Coulter – Wendell Berry
Brother was gone, and he wouldn’t be back. And the things that had been so before would never be so again. Things are. And then one day they aren’t and will never be. Wendell Berry does a marvelous job writing a moment in the passage of time. Having just read Jayber Crow, I wanted to …
Dancing Lights
David and I always go to the backyard and check on the chickens when we get back from our nightly walk-the-dog-around-the-block. Last night, after saying goodnight to the chickens, we were on our way back to the house when David stopped and pointed over our roof, Are those lights? I stopped and stepped back to …
Ideal Bookshelf Puzzle
My dad got this puzzle for Christmas. He worked it twice already and then sent it on to me. I enjoyed putting it together over these last couple days and this week I’ll send it on to my sister in Nashville. I googled the artist Jane Mount when I finished the puzzle and discovered that …
Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
I can’t look back from where I am now and feel that I have been very much in charge of my life. Certainly I have lived on the edge of the Port William community, and I am farther than ever out on the edge of it now. But I feel that I have lived on …
Aurora Family Puzzle
I bought this puzzle for the colors, the northern landscape, the art. I googled and found this statement on the artist: Dawn’s main theme is winter; her snowy bright images capture the essence of the North in the dark time, cold, but full of colour. Her use of swirling colours representing the northern lights is …
A Solitary Blue – Cynthia Voigt
“…..she saw love as something that gets you what you want. She didn’t understand at all.” A boy grows to better understand his mother. Himself. And the truth of things. This was a very good book.
Vintage Tins Puzzle
I am usually not a fan of of compilation-picture puzzles. They feel messy to me and my real life is so messy that I’m not that interested in a puzzle like that. I work on puzzles to chill, not to wallow in mess. But I pulled this puzzle out of the little free library down …
Going and Coming Puzzle
When I worked on the Saying Grace puzzle back in December 2019, I discovered a log of puzzle completion written inside the box top: Based on the written log, this Saying Grace puzzle has been in the family awhile! I actually think it came to us from my Grandma and Grandpa Yoder’s game cupboard, though …
Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt
“But I’ll tell you something else, too. Something I’ve learned, the hard way. I guess”—Gram laughed a little—”I’m the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You’ve got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It’s not always going to be fun, but if you …
Saying Grace Puzzle
I finished my 4th puzzle of the year! which says something about my year thus far, I suppose. As I worked on puzzling this scene together, I found myself thinking about what it means to say grace. And then went looking for some info on this particular piece of art. I learned that this served …
Bright and Beautiful Campine
Our Golden Campine died yesterday. I am not ready to sort words and try to make meaning out of the tears we have cried since Ryan brought her limp body into the house yesterday morning. By grace, the end was gentle and before she left us she opened her eyes, sipped some water Ethan offered …
2020 Reading Highlights
I always enjoy looking through year-end reviews of people’s favorite things. For instance, and in particular, Austin Kleon has long been one of my favorite follows on the internet and I always look forward to his annual review of 100 Things. And if I remember to look for it, I like to skim through the …
Pickett’s Puzzle
An old time country store is not my usual puzzle picture choice, and I tend to prefer 1000 pieces, but I am down to the end pickings on my puzzle shelf. I’d never done this one before and it was pleasant to assemble. Also, it reminded me of our fun family stop through Franklin a …
The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
“Oh, children,” said the Lion, “I feel my strength coming back to me. Oh children, catch me if you can!” He stood for a second, his eyes very bright, his limbs quivering, lashing himself with his tail. Then he made a leap high over their heads and landed on the other side of the Table. …
Chicken Puzzle
I got this puzzle for my birthday in November, but had a couple seasonal puzzles to complete first. Finally! January 1 and I got to the chicken puzzle. I work my puzzles on a board that I can push under the couch when I need it out of the way. I’d just opened this puzzle …
Winter Solstice – Rosamunde Pilcher
He (Sam) thought back over the extraordinary, coincidental chain of events that had brought him here at this particular time and then left him marooned so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had been carefully mapped out by fate. Some – hopefully benign being; the influence of …
What Do The Eyes Say?
Yesterday morning I reached for my keys and headed to the front door to go start the car warming up when I glanced out the window and saw a young moose high stepping his way into a front yard across the street. I hadn’t seen a moose in the neighborhood since right before Christmas and had …
paint the sky with color
It’s always a long winter season of whites and greys and brown here. We got off to a good snow start this year and have had snow on the ground since the end of October. Not exactly complaining! Snow is far better than icy, wet in our long winter dark!! But we haven’t had any …
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
“Why?” Dicey asked (of Will). “I mean, why should you bother? You have your own life.”“You’re a little bit of my life now. You can’t get away, and I can’t get rid of you. That’s a fact.”Dicey understood. A lot of people had little bits of her life now, and they were tied to her …
New York City Library Puzzle
I finished my first puzzle of the year – though most of it was done “last year”. I got this puzzle for Christmas and enjoyed putting it together. It was fun to run across an article about the apartments for custodians above the New York City libraries while I was working on this puzzle. To …
just gonna leave this right here
It seems the dog knows which pack is most likely to carry her stuffy.
Naughty Dotties
free ranging chickens sampling and trampling lettuceleaves what a big mess!