I just drove home from work, feeling rather tired and thinking I’d go to bed relatively early tonight. As I passed the back entrance to the school campus, I had my eyes peeled since I’d seen deer on my way into work along this road. Just before I reached the top of the hill, though, [...]
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Anna and I spotted these “Living Lantern” planters walking into Wegmans. Also known as Chinese Lanterns, they absolutely fascinated Anna and I figured they’d look nice on our front step. Something different from the potted mums I usually put out for the fall!
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Unlike most people, I find stripping wallpaper to be a form of stress relief. I know I’m weird. But when it’s easy, it’s really quite satisfying… I put this wallpaper up myself, about ten years ago. And now it’s falling down. I know it was put up properly – well, aside from the falling down [...]
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My day started with oversleeping. Then there was no coffee in the house. And then I had to watch our two (expired) carseats being crushed by the garbage truck as I was pulling down our driveway to go get coffee. And I’ve spent the last several hours changing over Anna’s closet and dresser, putting away [...]
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As today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, here are my “spoils of war” from the Fiber Festival: Let’s see…clockwise-ish from top left: * Patterns from various vendors. * A “headache pillow” made from lavender & flax seed from Cherry Hill Quilters. * Blue/green fiber is 4 oz. of Polworth from Fuzzy Bunny. * [...]
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I feel like I should be able to write something worth reading about today. But I can’t. I still feel much the same way I felt 10 years ago. I was surprised to discover that Carolyn learned a bit about what happened 10 years ago today in school this past week. I’ve never brought it [...]
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It’s always hard to get back in the swing of things after a vacation! Yesterday I took Carolyn to the mall to start back-to-school shopping, and today the girls and I spent the bulk of the day at Strong Museum. So we haven’t yet started our theme for this week (“On the Farm”) or really [...]
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So. It’s 2011. Time sure does fly when you’re busy with life, doesn’t it? I never really meant to abandon posting, but I fell behind, and then fell further behind, and all of sudden it had been months and months since my last post and I had no idea how to catch it all up, [...]
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When I woke up this morning and looked out the window, I thought, “gosh, that looks like awfully solid rain…” So, I am not, after all, a lazy gardener for not cleaning out my beds and putting in annuals yet. I’m just psychic!
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To make up for having to take down our trees, Carrie and I planted the beginnings of a garden today. Beans, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes, zinnias, marigolds and parsley. Including the sunflower Carrie planted at the PTA’s Earth Day fair last week, we will have a lot of new growing things to take care of [...]
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