24-DEC-2008
Apple Pie
From a recipe of my mother-in-law. I am getting better at getting it like hers, more perfect.
23-NOV-2008
Early Winter
Snow has come early this year. Nothing major yet, mostly annoying. The light on this day was a glorious reprieve from the short days.
28-SEP-2008
Always happy and smiling
I worried about this man today. He has to always be happy and smiling. Always greeting people with joy and warmth. My anxiety bounced off of his smile and smacked me in the head.
29-JUN-2008
Corn clouds and weeds
The weeds are taking over my garden. Lots of rain and gorgeous clouds the last few weeks though. Lots of mosquitos and a rat snake too.
28-JUN-2008
Old fruit and camera focus troubles
I can't figure out whether it is me or my camera, way too many out of focus pictures lately.
15-MAR-2008
Ides of March
Nothing terrible happened to us on this day. Poor Julius. Looking forward to some silliness on Monday, St. Patrick's day. The usual anticipation for spring has not come yet, maybe it is hiding around a corner.
02-FEB-2008
Late night email
Saturday nights and email and old movies. I should be out dancing with dangerous men but times change. Ott lights are most likely more healthy than smoky bars and loud music. Do youngsters go out on Saturday and plug in to their ipods in the bar? I loved the way the floor would pound on the noisy songs.
16-JAN-2008
Is it June yet?
Walking down the hall to a late professional development meeting is doing me in. Did the same pd a decade and a half ago. Makes sense to keep a doctor up to the latest techniques when removing an appendix, guess I should be updated too. I suppose. The engineer of this hall should have made it level.
12-JAN-2008
Tonights Sky
We all helped my oldest daughter move into a different apartment today. We displayed an excellent example of how a large family is a good thing. All the kids were so great at running up three flights and bringing down stuff and then going up three flights into the new and coming down and up again and again.
I tried to keep the momentum going but my joints don't like going up and down as much as they once did.
The sky looked great tonight. Where are the snow days?
06-JAN-2008
Here is the old ladder
Climbing and possibly falling are not on a list of things I like to do.
06-JAN-2008
Shingles
A wind storm blew shingles and more off of my house a month ago. Today I climbed the old rickety ladder, with my cordless drill and slapped an errant shingle back on. Doesn't read like much but I did invoke Heaven when climbing on the ladder.
The gutter is off of the other side of the house. I'll call someone who knows more than I and is younger.
25-DEC-2007
The CAKE
My baby brother and other siblings had this cake every holiday from my maternal grandmother. Probably was a very "generic" (that word didn't exist back then) recipe to Grammy but we thought the cake was like stepping into heaven.
Brown sugar and other mysterious and very plain ingredients cooked on the stove oh so very just so. Scraping the frosting from the plate after the cake was gone we were all guilty of.
I made it again today, well yesterday in quite a hurry. One of the next generation exclaimed some complements about it. Not sure whether they really thought it was good or whether or not... don't care going for another piece right now and hoping to keep it a secret from my eleven year old son who likes it too.
You know, other people would have pictures of themselves and the new baby or the presents or whatever, but my baby brother and I had a picture taken of us with THE CAKE.
