Take a look at my garage – isn't it a sweet little building. It has its interesting diamond pattern garage doors, original lights and four big windows. Like most of my home it needs some love. I painted the garage doors earlier this spring. It just got a new roof with a shiny copper edge…

Summer is rolling along. The pandemic restrictions are lifting and that feels great, but Brian is still stuck in his office doing meeting after meeting from home. I know he misses traveling and doing his job in person. We've been out to restaurants a few times recently and that has been great. We went to…

It's summer! We've eaten almost all the strawberries that I picked – strawberry shortcake, strawberry jam, strawberry milk, strawberry pie and strawberries in my cereal. Yum!  The girls and I went paddleboarding. We all got some sunburn – oops. My shasta daisies and my nasturtiums are blooming. Pretty stamps that I need to get framed.…

Bea and Claire had their last days of school this week. What a strange year! Here they are heading off to their last days. Since Bea is moving on to high school she had a special graduation ceremony. It was planned to be socially distanced and outside – basically everyone gathered in a big parking…

In the grass there are bits of balloons from when Claire and her friend had a water balloon fight. But there are also lots of creatures. I sit in the hammock in the afternoons. I make sure to place the hammock in the deepest bit of shade and I read. But I get distracted by…

I admire Polish folk art paper cutting. It's called wycinanki. It has humble roots – an inexpensive craft that came from shepards cutting shapes out of bark or leather. Designs were later cut from paper and they were made to decorate homes or for holiday decorations and gifts. Seems like many cultures have their own…

What a strange spring/early summer we are having. We've had many days in the 90s and almost no rain. I've been trying to keep my young plants and my pots and my garden watered but the grass looks like it usually does in August. Which is to say it looks brown. Sad.  My pea plants…