A Pinch of Joy

This has been a week of  “clearing the decks” .  I’ve been working at closing out projects and finishing overdue chores.  Going through paper files, making sure everything is in a labeled folder, shredded, or disposed of in some way.  Then I started in on the digital files – definitely a bigger project.  Very satisfying […]

Cold and wintry, but with sunshine, no snow and occasional very high winds.  Love being able to take a walk most days – but it certainly is  unusual.  Bytes is just happy he’s not shoveling snow!  Putting away the Christmas decorations and reorganizing as I go.  Our local thrift store only accepts Christmas items in […]

New Year’s Eve was quiet and relaxing.  Except for that roaring game of Telestration!  A combination of Telephone (where you pass the message to the next person and see how garbled it is after other people get hold of it!)  and Guess My Drawing (from a bunch of non-artists with a sharpie and one sophisticated […]

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 […]