Category Archives: Musings

These flowers popping up around the entire  front of our rental home –that we didn’t plant. We think they may be tulips, but we aren’t sure.   Only time will tell now.

  Anything in French sounds better.     Example:     My toe itches.   En Francais–     Mon orteil démange       

Our world  is nothing if not that  the past few days. We  like it, the juice is still on for us to make cider, stews and other warming delectables .   The dog,however, not so much anymore .The first night … Continue reading →

for Christmas.   Again.   Ok  , am I just  bringing abnormal weather with me everywhere now ?   Oddly enough  we had snow in  League City on December  24th back  2 years ago.   I seem to remember my … Continue reading →

 blowing across the front of  our car yesterday afternoon , as we  drove the backroads of Hampshire county to get  some suburban shopping in .  Quite the juxtaposition to be driving along  winding  streets  with bright red barns ,corn fields  and then … Continue reading →

…not recommended.   I normally wear a pair of black leather  Easy Spirit crosstraining sports shoes around most days.   There was a slight problem  when I went to put my feet in them on the morning of Oct 21 … Continue reading →

This  recently discovered  Yariguies  brush finch from an unexplored region of the Andean mountains  in Columbia  has given me much to think about lately.   I think it’s fabulous  that there are still things left on this Earth to discover besides what … Continue reading →

Steff checked on the neighbor’s  critters  3 times a day  for the past few days since their  food slaves were off galavanting at a big  family to-do out in Oklahoma.   One Beagle, one  black and white older cat ,a Siamese kitty … Continue reading →

I realized  that as my butt got wider   , the more  accessories made it into my wardrobe.   At first  it was shoes , until  long walks in a mountain village on vacation  in the wrong shoes brought on hobbling and  a  heel blister … Continue reading →

…a pastel feeling muggy July morning amble through the neighborhood :