A Pinch of Joy

Hope everyone had a good holiday!  We had a wonderful time with niece Angie and her three!  For Christmas Eve, I gathered recipes, divided ingredients into a bag for each recipe and set up five work stations in the kitchen.   One teen made mini cheeseballs – which were a hit once the baguette was sliced.  […]

Bought a different car this past week to replace the white mobility van I sold recently. The new to me one is beautiful royal blue. Someone in the family – nameless, but I have my suspect! – started a text chain to pick out a new name for the vehicle. Don’t tell me we are […]

Dug the Christmas decorations from the basement storage area and ignited a week long cleaning spree! Haven’t had time to do that for quite awhile so it was due time and very therapuetic. Three van loads to the thrift store this past week. Things we moved ten years ago and never used – mostly craft […]

Christmas is creeping closer.  Bytes put the lights on the back fence, we have a new super tall skinny tree in the living room, ingredients for candy making in the kitchen.  AND now it is snowing!!  Usually we have had at least one big snow by now — this may be “it” arriving late.  We […]

There were nine at our Thanksgiving table – a very interesting mix of folks in every way!  We drew cards to find our question of the day- everything from what job do you think would be interesting to what’s your favorite dessert.  We believe in rules around here  and then immediately break them.  So there […]

I awakened Friday morning to a full volume cacaphony of honking geese! Not a few — literally thousands. The sky was heavily overcast but I could see them as they left their summer home on the Mile Wide River. Geese came into view in a haphazard clump and quickly formed into the trademark V formation […]