A Pinch of Joy

The pentagon has 1.5 coats of paint.  But we have accumulated a lot of rain since we started.  If we had known that was what it would take to break the drought, we would have painted long ago!  The color went from green to a beige white  to go with the stone on the front […]

Working on the Pentagon in the backyard.  The garden shed, that is.  It actually fits into the yard better than a square shed.  Two sides align with the corner of the fence and three sides face the yard itself and that’s what you see when you look out the window.  It takes up less visual […]

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 […]