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Sunday’s Thought
“Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.” — Joan D. Chittister
Thanksgiving Woman’s Day Column
Here's my Thanksgiving Woman's Day column, thought you might like it. Feel free to share it with friends.
Happy Thanksgiving
I was sleeping in a bit, seeing as how this is a holiday, and it's a been a long snowy week, and my husband is finally home from deer hunting, and I don't have to leap up to let an old dog out or bring the hens water, when the the phone rang. My husband who had been...
Tragedy Strikes
If losing my good old dog weren't enough, my beloved pet hens are now all dead. We had a break in and murder early Friday morning in their cozy coop. I can still hardly breathe it was so awful. They trusted me to keep them safe and I didn't. The trouble with living...
Sunday’s Thought
Their silence can be one of their most endearing traits. Not muteness- absence of linguistic noise. There is no awkwardness in a shared silent moment with a dog- a gaze from the dog on the other side of the room- lying sleepily alongside each other. It is when...
Te and Bread
Er, eh, te, zed, id... I was "dinged to death" as my mother would have said at Scrabble last night. I walked out onto the road and across the way to the neighbors, taking the plowed driveway route rather than the usual garden path, since there is five feet of...
Snowstorm Post Card
It has been a busy morning digging out, but here's a few pictures from the last 48 hours. Getting ready for the big snow, Tuesday afternoon Wednesday Thursday morning