1. It seems all I have to do to make it rain is to spend a couple of hours watering my garden, and sure enough, there will be a downpour the next morning.
2. Tuesday’s thunder storm knocked the power out but I was able to start the generator on my own for the first time, [...]
1. Blogging these days tends to be a thankless job. With so many readers who never make a comment, sometimes I feel like I’m talking to the wall.
2. I’m a bit of a wallflower myself, when it comes to parties (unless there is dancing or Scrabble playing). I don’t so much resemble the inanimateness of [...]
1. Some would call my blog a personal one, but I say it’s all about the news: the news of life, both the inner life and the everyday slice of it.
2. Some days come with everything on it. Others are plain.
3. Speaking of pie, my son Josh’s favorite birthday cake is a blueberry pie [...]
1. I wonder if my goldfinches are jealous that I’ve moved onto to photographing butterflies.
2. As if playing musical chairs, the butterflies periodically jump from flower to flower and sometimes land on a flower that’s already been taken and someone gets pushed off.
3. Overheard at a porch cookout at my friend Katherine’s house, where [...]
1. Message seen on my Akismet Wordpress spam filter: “What the heck is ham doing on my blog? I’m a vegetarian,” which made me wonder what computer ham is, maybe spam that’s conceited?
2. Good tea and good beer are like twins that I love equally for completely different reasons.
3. They’re like bookends, [...]
1. I recently drove by my brother Jimmy’s house here in Hull (He died in 2001.), admiring the landscaping in his front yard and wondering which shrubs were the ones he planted the spring before he died. There was no forewarning of his death, but Jim had a fatalistic personality and I remember him telling [...]
1. My husband Joe and I are very smitten with our first grandchild Bryce. After hearing that Bryce’s parents are having another baby, Joe jokingly said to me, “You can have the new baby, Bryce is mine.”
2. A couple of months later when we learned the baby was a boy and it all seemed more [...]
1. I’m convinced that summer gnats get in your eyes because they mistake them for pools to swim in.
2. It’s funny that the cartoon-cute chipmunk eating at our bird feeder doesn’t bother me, but the thieving squirrel does.
3. Some of my Facebook friends have joined: When I hear myself eating crunchy food, I wonder if [...]
1. Some people bring home puppies. My husband brings home stray hikers, campers, and bikers off The Blue Ridge Parkway. Saturday night we had 3 guests who have been bicycling cross country since November. See their webpage and blog HERE.
2. Recently said to my husband: “I feel rich. I [...]
1. When the phone rang first thing Sunday morning, I sleepily said to my husband Joe, “It’s the front desk calling to wake us up.”
2. Joe and I hiked Buffalo Mountain, Floyd’s highest peak, today. To borrow (and adapt) a tag-line from Primland (a nearby eco-friendly Resort I’ve been writing about), “It was 4,000 [...]
1. As Joe was serving me tea in bed the morning of my birthday, I said, “You remind me of the East Indian butler in Murder on the Nile,” a part he actually played in a Floyd Theater Group production years ago.
2. He wouldn’t put on a white towel for a [...]
1. Somehow saying “the phone is vibrating off the table,” doesn’t have the same ring as “it’s ringing off the hook.”
2. Afternoon nap: I had a conk but it wasn’t enough, so then I had a zonk.
3. You do the math: Right now I’m 2 pounds over my “accepted [...]
1. While setting up my house for the 16 Hands Art Tour, My Asheville Potter Son Josh asked me : “Do we have wireless?” I answered, “Yes, and we also have a hula hoop.”
2. Speaking of hoops, I’ve seen my friend Ilima dance with fire, with a sword balanced on her head, and [...]
1. There’s such a fine line between precious and precocious.
2. Today while studying an azalea bloom up close, I remembered THIS
3. I think of spring as a flirt kind of twirling its skirt.
4. My latest fashion statement: a brightly colored pen tucked behind my ear.
5. I follow my mind around with a pen and [...]
1. Joe and I have recently been so taken with a PBS NOVA show on the Hubble telescope that we’ve watched it more than once. I love seeing what outer space looks like but I can’t wrap my brain around this: The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in [...]
1. To me hor d’oeuvres is just another way of saying “spoil my appetite.”
2. Facebook entry April 10: The golden finches are feeding, asparagus needs weeding, and I saw a butterfly today!
3. Favorite quotable line of the week, written by Alice Walker in her children’s book Why War is Never a Good Idea: [...]
1. When it comes to raking my yard, I wish I could just point and click.
2. Times sure have changed. In the past I would have said, “I wish I could twitch like a Bewitched witch and the leaves would be gone.”
3. Last night the bubbles in my New Castle beer made it light up [...]
1. A new zoo from Tracie is HERE.
2. An old favorite song of my sister Sherry’s and mine that inspired the above title and came to mind after looking at # 1 HERE.
3. Recently found written in old journal: God is in good and goodness is goddess. Next to it was this: [...]
