Jim and I were away for almost two weeks. We drove down to Vancouver Island to spend a few days with our kids, then headed south (a bit!) and across southern Washington and northern Oregon (back and forth across the Columbia River on nearly every bridge, just because it amused us) to Yellowstone. A lot…

This is what a lawn looks like in 23 days of wet weather!Our hayfield! You can see that it’s almost more than the mower can handle! Had a good canning day yesterday. In the evening it stopped raining long enough for me to get an hour or so of dead-heading the lilac bush in. Still more…

Our very good friend Rick is currently in ICU at the regional hospital with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. He had the flu last week and after awhile began losing muscular control and strength in his feet and then calves. Then higher. Then hands and arms. Because he was *only* a Level 2 emergency (not on the verge…

Today I’m wearing a cute burgundy short-sleeved knitted top that I paid something like three bucks for at Value Village. I hardly ever wear it, sadly, because it is one of *those* that needs hand washing and laying flat to dry. That rarely happens, so it usually lives at the bottom of my laundry hamper….