planning: where to put everything and how to organize the apartment we just moved into enjoying: the more laid-back life-style of small-town Idaho as opposed to the “big city” feel of Denver buying: appliances… the apartment needed a fridge, stove, washer, and dryer. We were able to find a damaged model of a brand-new “fancy” refrigerator for a steal of a price, and…

I learned to crochet and knit when I was a little girl. Sewing and embroidery, too, but this post is about knitting. My mother showed me how to knit when I was probably 10 or 12, but crocheting seemed easier to me since it only involved one hook and one loop at a time, rather than two long needles with…

  Several years ago when I inherited my grandparents’ bedroom suite, I chose to go with a “romantic prairie” theme for my bedroom decor. The house we live in now does not have the warm knotty-pine walls we had in our house in Idaho, but I still like that look and feel. Part of my decor includes treasured hand-made quilts…

Lately I’ve decided that there are too many other things that I would rather spend my time on than constantly maintaining my possessions. I don’t enjoy having to put things away, dust them, organize them, and remember what I have. I’ve come to the conclusion that for me, less is more. Having drawn that conclusion does not make it easy…

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…