A Pinch of Joy

We went to a  graduation party out of town Friday night.  Beautiful setting in a community hall with pictures of the graduate as  baby, preschooler, grade school, and high school and all the associated activities.  There were classmates, grandmas, aunts, uncles and cousins, and lots of other well wishers!  Good food, cool weather and lots […]

I’ve been working in the front yard for the last week, making some heavy duty changes. Enlarged one flower bed and swooped down the entire east side to make it easier to mow the lawn. There is a pretty steep slope for such a small lawn and the people who run lawnmowers complain mightily about […]

A huge robin cautiously approached our backyard water fountain this morning.  He could see me looking out the window and stood on the edge of the water, assessing the situation.  The breeze ruffled the red feathers into a puff and he hopped in the basin.  Gave me the shivers because the temperature is about 10 […]

Off to the big city to visit Nate the Great and his family.  Yes, we saw  them last week at the Easter egg hunt, but more is always better!  I need to do some furniture shopping and we will talk the whole time, listen to fabulous Easter music on Sunday morning and have a change […]

Nate the Great and Mom, Angie Special Teacher and the Trio are visiting this weekend.  We’re celebrating Easter a week early with the big Easter Egg Hunt at Sister Bee’s.  Charcuterie boards are being created in the kitchen, Lemon Lush has firmed up nicely in the fridge, last minute “where’s my…..? hunts have succeeded. Other […]

We’ve been busy tearing down and building up. The domain name we originally wanted for our other blog became available. And we decided basically starting over from scratch would be a good thing so Bytes has been busy working magic behind the scenes. The new blog will be available with a slight name change next […]