… and winter comes

As we work through Advent, the season is darkening in the Northern Hemisphere.  We are approaching not only Christmas, but the darkest night of the year.
The new Sting CD I just bought had some musings about the necessity of winter in our psyche.
Summer is lovely, but we can’t keep up that pace forever.  Winter forces [...]

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Summer

Slow, sodden spring yields,
To sticky, sweaty summer.
Yard, you’re on your own,
 
Cheerfully weeded
Just while weather amnesia
Lingered in light breeze.
 
AC’s siren song
Whirs, “You, neither mad dog nor
Englishman; stay in!”
 
(No offense to the English; the phrase is, “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun!”  Probably said somewhere in the tropics, where some Englishmen were reportedly more concerned [...]

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Go to the happy place…

I’m not as doom-and-gloom as you might think from just reading my blog.  Really, I have a lot of life going on outside of politics, most of it pretty happily contented.  Which is part of why I blog: I want to see those things protected.
So, tonight, I offer some stuff that makes me happy, and [...]

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It’s a good time of the year…

It’s a good time of the year.  We’re starting up homeschooling again, after a month or so of summer slow-down.  (When I joked that freshly cleaned and arranged homeschool shelves looked nice and just “bursting with knowledge”, Diva replied with an enthusiastic (and not joking), “Mmm hmm!”)  The butterflies are increasing.  It’s been a lovely, [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday

 
1.  Coming tomorrow (really, I mean it): pseudonyms!  They’ll be up there in the sidebar.  I got tired of working around my kids’ names, so here are the pseudonyms for the household occupants.  Oldest daughter: Diva.  Middle son: Crash.  Youngest daughter: Empress.  Yes, they can be sweet, loving, and nearly normal.  But on most days, these [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (sweetness and light)

It’s been a rough week.  I don’t want to talk about it.  So, instead, here are some of my favorite things…  (and, while you’re at it, click on the post-it above to go see Jen at Conversion Diary and the other 7 Quick Takes from her other readers.)
1. and 2. Cookie dough… and “help” making it.
3.  When a [...]

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Earth Day

Did we do Earth Day?  Yes and no.
I’m a sort of Christian, conservative, penny-pinching type of not-quite-environmentalist.
I try to be responsible about what I do in regards to the environment, because I believe God gave man stewardship over the earth, which means we are to take good care of it, improve it, etc.  Not because [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (Apr 17)

1.  If you missed it (oh, wait… the MSM didn’t report anything on it!), the Red Envelope Project did pretty darn well.  An estimated 2.5 million red envelopes arrived at the White House.  No official comment, of course.  Lifenews did report, however, that a mail room staffer confirmed the volume, and commented that it was [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (end of Lent)

1.  It’s Friday, that means more short, random thoughts that didn’t make full blog posts!  (at least on my blog.  Many blogs write short posts on a more regular basis… really, Tricia, I’m trying to be shorter!)  It’s also the last normal Friday of Lent, as next Friday is Good Friday, which is full fast, [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Waiting for Spring

It’s been a rough winter.  Maybe it was just the election, the economy, etc.  I don’t know.  But it’s finally getting a little warmer, and I am hesitantly optimistic that we’ve seen the last of the frigid weather. 
1.  I’m sure we’ll see our last frost the day before my greenhouse plastic finally shows up.  I [...]

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