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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Resuming



Isn’t this amazing. My oldest grandson Dan and his wife Gretchen are having so many adventures worldwide. This time on a glacier in Argentina. I am so happy that they have chosen to live life to the fullest. Dan has gone from a shy teenager to hang gliding, hiking, and traveling all over the world. 

I love to travel but being from a very small town it was not part of my early life. Each summer we would travel from Pennsylvania to Georgia to visit relatives. We took our kids to various out of state amusement parks. I never traveled much until my Danish friend asked me to go to see her relatives. After that I went to France and Germany with my sister and Provence With my friend. There is nothing I like better than seeing new things and having adventures. 

My oldest son Chris is a homebody but through work he has traveled to Switzerland five times, Germany and China. But he would have rather stayed right at home. 

Do you like to travel?  What’s the most interesting place you’ve been?

Thursday, January 18, 2024

What am I doing?

What am I reading?..Liz Cheney’s new book Oath and Honor. 
It’s a gripping firsthand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enabler’s betrayed the American people and the Constitution. The quote that had the most impact on me…. A free society that abandons the truth that abandons the rule of law cannot remain free.



What am I watching?    Various things on streaming..apple….Criminal Record. Prime…Press
YouTube..landscape artist of the year

What am I eating?  Made an apple tart the other day. 



What am I listening to?  While riding in the car I always listen to podcasts. This morning it was happier with Gretchen Rubin and her sister. I always try to get a little nugget of information. This morning it was there’s no good time to start a habit except now.

What am I wearing? Today since it’s so cold out I’m wearing my jeans with a sweatshirt. I was bundled up with a coat and a hat and gloves this morning as I went to coffee.

What am I looking forward to?  At the end of February I’m going to Lancaster to see a musical play about Simon and Garfunkel’s life.

What would I like to do more of? I’d like to get outside to walk. The weather’s below freezing so I don’t believe I will at the moment

What is the daily ritual that I do? Every morning I read one page from the Artist’s soul by Linda Coons. And every morning I read one essay by Sara Ban Breathnach in romancing the ordinary a year of simple splendor.




Where would I like to go? I’ve been longing to go to a bed and breakfast in a little quaint town.




Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Intentions


Reese is all cuddled up on this cold winter day on a warm blanket stretched out on my legs. I’ve already broken one of my intentions for 2024. I didn’t make resolutions instead I wrote out 24 intentions for the following year. they are just ideas of things that I would like to do in the coming months. I find now that I’m a little older that my ambition wanes. I am so much more content to not do anything and I am to become a go-getter. I just want to do things that please me.
One of the things I intended to do in 2024 is start blogging again. My blog is only a journal. I enjoys looking back and seeing things that went on in the past years. Especially when I made them into a print book.
     2023 was a disastrous year for me. Especially January. It was on 3 January years ago and I lost my best friend suddenly. Now with my husband gone celebrating our anniversary on 22 January will be completely different. And I am going to celebrate. I was lucky enough to have him so many years. 28 January was when he passed away. My life completely changed after that. I became the only person in the house after being a caretaker for a number of years. I had never lived alone so it was a difficult adjustment. I am looking forward to 2024 Been a much better year.


I also was in the emergency room three times in the autumn. Once from breathing in Raid another time I took a bad fall and cut my forehead open and had ten stitches. And the last time was for heart palpitations. 

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Well….this happened

On Friday I decided to wash an 8 x 6’ rug outside. That went very well and when it was dry I rolled it up and carried it inside. I’ve been having trouble with my left hip with bursitis. I had a Cortizone shot in both hips but it wasn’t time to get another one yet. As I was carrying the rug in somehow I lost my balance and my left leg wasn’t strong enough to hold me up and I tipped forward and I tipped forward. unfortunately my whole body weight tipped me right into the sharp corner of my China closet. As soon as my head hit the corner I knew it was going to be bad and when I reached up and had blood who’s out my fingers I knew.  But when I looked in the mirror and saw the 5 inch cut from my forehead top to between my eyes which was deep and wide I knew it was really bad. I put ice and pressed on it as I called my friend Joan who came and picked me up and took me to the emergency room. Four hours later I came home after having a CAT scan and 10 stitches and 10 stitchesBut when I looked in the mirror and saw the 5 inch cut from my forehead top to between my eyes which was deep and wide I knew it was really bad. I put ice and pressed on it as I called my friend Joan who came and picked me up and took me to the emergency room. Four hours later I came home after having a CAT scan and 10 stitches.I’m going to have a very large scar right in the middle of my forehead. And my eyes are almost swollen shut. I look like a bad raccoon. I guess since I have 79 I need to learn my limitations.

Monday, September 04, 2023

Amazing





How lucky am I? This is Rose, my mother in law who celebrated her 101st birthday on Sunday. She is in amazing health and has a mind that is so sharp. She still plays cards daily with her family and lives at home under the care of her daughter. We are so fortunate to have her. 



Sunday, September 03, 2023

Fall,beautiful fall

September is here and with it comes cold, crisp mornings where the air is so refreshing. As I drive by the location where West Branch school used to stand I see the young wannabe Josh Allens practicing their throws and hits. Now that its cooler people are out walking with their children or dogs along the trails. The leaves on the tops of some trees have felt the change and are showing a different color of leaf. 
  September has always been an exciting new adventure for me when I was teaching. I entered the classroom after a long summer break to the smell of newness.  Everything was fresh and clean. As I opened the supplies I ordered in the spring it was like Christmas as I anticipated how I would use these new materials. I prepared lesson in anticipation of a brand new class. It may be one of the few jobs where every year is a new start. I was the kind of teacher who never did things the same way year after year. I loved putting up the bulletin boards welcoming the students into the classroom.
      It’s a little different now. I retired from elementary teaching in 2006 and it is in the far distance of my memory. Put I still walk down the school supply isle in Walmart just to look at the notebooks and pens and markers. 
      Here are some pictures of my 2003 fall decorations.


















Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Sunshine



This is what it’s like to have such a thoughtful sister-in-law. She knows I’m going through a rough patch and she gave me a box of goodies to cheer me up. They were all wrapped in yellow Tissue paper and all follow the yellow theme. She’s a very clever girl and I’m so appreciative. It came on a day when I was really having quite a bad time. Thank you charlotte.