When one has a lovely two weeks off work just to stay home one would naturally make a list of all one would like to accomplish: spring cleaning and decluttering writing and catching up on blogging long walks and photography practice As well as some just-for-fun activities thrown in: shopping and lunch with friends crocheting and watching movies reading and journaling…

According to my fan club and recent comment spammers, I’m supposed to be blogging. My #1 fan (aka my husband) says gentle things like: “I noticed you haven’t blogged recently.” …and… “You haven’t posted the pictures from our walk yet.” The spammers are more entertaining. Their comments make very little sense, but they do make me laugh sometimes: Thank you…

I’m not a football fan, but it seems you can hardly live in America–much less Denver–without getting caught up in the obsession that is football, especially when the hometown team makes it to the Super Bowl. Mostly I think it’s crazy. We attend a very small, pretty conservative church. As we arrived at church yesterday morning I noticed a couple of…

Outside my window is way too much snow. Denver got dumped on earlier this week and we accumulated about a foot of snow in 24 hours or so. Snow can be beautiful… but it sure is a mess in the city! I am thinking I’ll be glad when when winter is over… but I really don’t want to wish away…

Some friends of ours, who have been married longer than we have, joked that they decided early in their marriage that he would make all the major decisions and she would make all the minor decisions. And then he told us, with a grin, that 30-some-odd years later,  there haven’t been any major decisions! She just rolled her eyes and…

Late in the summer and into the early fall I enjoyed sitting on on my front porch with my Bible, journal, and crocheting. On the first day of fall I added a basket of fall-scented potpourri, a pumpkin-scented candle, and a few other touches of autumn decor. As the weather turned cooler I started leaving a throw out there as…