One unexpected bonus to the pandemic forcing us all to hunker down and do everything online from home for more than a year was that I had the chance to attend my old poetry workshop via Zoom. Before we moved from Pennsylvania back to Colorado seven years ago, I used to participate in an annual […]
Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace. Unknown I spent Saturday morning puttering around in my garden. It’s deeply satisfying to be able to do something like that. We’re as busy as ever these days, so I hadn’t had much of a chance to get out there all week, and the […]
We’re trying to squeeze in as many trips with the girls as we can before they’re really too grown up to vacation with us. Traveling during the pandemic has been… interesting. We’ve been camping/RV-ing for quite a few years now, and this year, it seems like EVERYONE is getting in on the fun. Campgrounds are […]
Husband: Why is he constantly following you around crying like that? Me: He’s just waiting for me to fill his dish with something he can disdainfully refuse to eat.
It’s snowing again. We had a warm week last week where things became misleadingly mild and the grass even greened up a bit, but we know better up here at the top of the little divide I live on than to trust any of that bullshit in early April. And sure enough, today is day […]
We had a little snow on Thursday evening, so yesterday morning I woke to this: April snow isn’t all that unusual up here at 7,400 feet. Thursday morning, before the snow came, I took Bubbles down to the vet for a follow-up appointment. I’m not allowed in the building still because we’re nowhere near the […]
Yesterday morning when I went downstairs for coffee, I found a little folded piece of paper in my mug (mercifully before pouring anything into it): I pulled it out and looked at it and saw a photocopy of a squirrel-meme my 16yo loves. It’s the one with the overweight squirrel looking like it’s patting its […]
This was the view looking left from my front porch before dawn this morning. As views go, it ain’t too bad. 🙂 I put this photo out on Instagram and Facebook as well as here today, and it got an appreciative reaction, much more so than other photos I’ve posted. One person said is was […]
Today is the first day of spring, so we’re having a blizzard to celebrate. When you live at the top of a mountain pass, even a smallish one, this sort of thing isn’t unusual. What is unusual is that we didn’t have to look up school closings for this one. Because everything is already closed. […]
The afternoon before my daughter came home from college for what would become the rest of the semester, I took a look at her cat, Bubbles, and realized that he didn’t look good. At all. He had lost a lot of the weight he’d regained after his dental surgery in the fall, and his fur […]