company’s coming

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow! I’m so excited that Lauri and Aidan are coming – what a great Christmas present. Richard will drive into Portland and pick them up in the morning. Me, I’ll be here getting the last of things ready. With Ryan here last weekend, and Gretchen and Tom on the heels of his leaving, [...]

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getting ready

The weather has been COLD here. Really cold for this area. This morning it was 20 outside. Clear and beautiful, but damn cold. Too cold to be outside, so we spent yesterday cleaning through boxes in the den. Shredding old paperwork, sorting, boring stuff. We need to get things in order for our new house [...]

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end of the snow!

Who ever thought that anyone from these parts would be so delighted to see rain this time of year. We drove into Seattle on Monday. It was clear and bright along the way, but there was a lot of lingering snow.             these shots are from around the east side of the bay after leaving [...]

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Sew, Snow, Sew

Thanks to the miracle of not losing electricity in this snow storm, I’m still sewing. Yay!  Because there’s still sewing to do. It’s my nature to continually add to any list. So, as I finish one more gift tomorrow, I will start another ( or two!) .  We awoke to snow this morning, and it [...]

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a little catch up

With company over the long weekend, and work (!) the past couple days, I feel like I’ve been out of the country for a week or so. Monday was Richard’s surgery. It went well, but I was the non-present caregiver. It turned out that the same day I had to go to the store and [...]

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 So the past couple weeks have come and gone very quickly – yeah I know, no surprise. Christmas is over, and in the midst of all the rush we squeezed a trip into Seattle for a couple days. I am so lucky to have a place there where it is always comfortable to just hang [...]

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