Window Thinking
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 …
“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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
It seems the dog knows which pack is most likely to carry her stuffy.
free ranging chickens sampling and trampling lettuceleaves what a big mess!
It’s 10pm and August light still shines bright but that’s about to end.
Some of us are better at the social distance measure than others.
late in the seasona single bleeding heart bloomsunexpectedly
small batch raspberry jam for a bright red taste of sweet summerdelight
glaciers and snowfieldsmelt to hold the sky in a dimpled reflection
We walked off the edge of the grid to this place where the quiet sounds big.
It’s so fun seeing the proof that our backyard was not canceled this year.
afternoon sunevening buckets of rain flash.BANG! wrap it with a bow
I think it might depend more on a shovel or perhaps the chickens.
sun sets like fire to light the grass at waters edgeflames dance in the wind
Ugly chainlink fence is nothing when the Diva turns her face to you.
like magicI turned backyard berries into jam then we ate it all