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  I couldn’t sleep and got up at ‘way too early’ o’clock and put the coffee on.  As I poured my first cup (of two) I glanced out the window at the back of the house and saw that the sun had found a wee break in the clouds and a shaft of light had…

  Life Happens.   The lovely white rose bushes that used to live along the public path in my neighbourhood and would brighten my daily walks no longer exist.  I don’t know why, but for years they were there, then one year…they were not. And life is a lot like those bushes.  Sometimes there are things…

  I have begun de-listing books that have not sold, and letting the rest run out their auction period.  Not sure what I’ll do with those that have not (yet) sold.  I have several options and will need to decide which way I’ll go.  Allison’s books are generally in good condition, and wide ranging –…

  No rainbows today, but blessed, blessed rain.  Soft, gentle rain.  Rain that will soak in, drench the ground – if we get enough of it.  Which is moot. The rivers are still far too low in terms of water levels, and despite the Bright Sparks who keep insisting this is all ‘normal’, let me…

  Yesterday a parcel arrived in the mail.  When I got home from the dentist, it was waiting in the mailbox and I sat down to open it and discovered this lovely bit of sunshine in the form of two tatted doilies. Now, I never did grasp the ‘secret’ of tatting – I could never…

  I confess to being rather…out of ‘focus’…these days.   For the past few years I’ve been struggling to keep going in spite of physical challenges that sapped me of energy and even the desire to do much of anything. Part of me has done what it has always done – cracked the whip and tried…

  It’s been about 10 years since I’ve run an eBay auction, and facing nearly 100 books for the guild I thought maybe I ought to test the site out so that I’ve done my ‘training’ before I begin on those. Since I had some lace books I wanted to sell (duplicates, or I’m just…

  photo by Andrew Kurjata I had good intentions for today.  I went to bed thinking I could get up ‘early’ (earlier than I have been lately), jump into the shower, then leap onto the loom.  (‘Jumping’ and ‘leaping’ being relative terms these days.) Anyway, I didn’t. Instead I saw another post about the abnormal…

  It’s the time of year when I sometimes wake up to this.  This morning was overcast and dreary so I didn’t get to see this spray of light, but hopefully it will show up more frequently – until spring progresses to the point where it happens way before I wake up! Yesterday I finished…

  Scrolling through Facebook this morning, a post challenged ‘me’ to name a city that changed my life. I quickly thought about the places I have been in my life (more than I expected, fewer than I’d hoped) and decided that the place/city that changed me in ways I had no way of knowing it…