We just got word that my son and his gang of three– fiance, stepson, stepson’s friend– will be spending the Fourth of July week with us! We are so happy to see them all and are really looking… Continue reading

     Here we go again… I am starting to wonder if we inadvertently relocated to Seattle!      And let me just say, right through the Fourth of July week, it looks pretty much the same. All this has… Continue reading

     Here is a picture I took down at the lake during the ten minutes it wasn’t raining, raining, raining last week! Thank goodness for an obsessive indoor hobby. I can tell I’m crushing it by how many bobbins… Continue reading

      I have settled into a beautiful summer routine of veggie gardening, chicken tending, and sewing, not particularly in that order. So one day just flows gently into the next. Blog writing has not been in my rotation… Continue reading

     Last week was like being a kid again at a summer camp in the wilds of Maine! Up at dawn, big breakfast, outside to play, afternoon visits to the craft cabin, and nightly kayaking on the lake… if… Continue reading

      I love the summer! The smell of mown grass, the long days, and cookouts.. the weather is finally acting the part–we had a blistering hot day of 85 after barely getting out of the 60s all spring. I… Continue reading

      I’m happy to report the black cloud over my mind has lifted. A combination of beautiful weather, a big spring clean of the house, and massive sewing time this week has done the trick! Planting bulbs in… Continue reading

      I took three days last week to travel to see my son and help work on his bathroom renovation. I love a good home improvement project. Best of all, my DD, the artist-in-residence came along.    … Continue reading

  I read last week’s post to see where I left off– I guess it was supposed to rain the whole week and I thought I would just be sewing– well, it didn’t and I wasn’t! We are having some… Continue reading

      The creative sap has started flowing again, but spring activities have reduced the available time! I am really enjoying watching what comes up in my meadow in the first spring here. There are dozens of daffodils in… Continue reading