A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
It is Limerick Friday again and in honor of the fast approaching holiday I give you Young Elliott’s Woes.
Hear the tale of young Elliott Hocking
Who remembers a Christmas quite shocking
His sins were laid bare
By the gifts that weren’t there
And t…
I have been saying that I’m nearly halfway done with my quilt for months. Yesterday I completed the 7th large block so one more will put me at half. I have decided that I need to just accept the fact that I’m never going to pick up a project and finish…
Tonight the doorbell will ring to announce the coming of friends. I so enjoy hosting our “Sewing Party”. We won’t be a big crowd tonight but enough for good conversation. It’s seafood night. We usually pick some sort of theme for our dinner and each…
I never used to sunburn. I spent most of my childhood outdoors and my skin remained in a state of tan year-round. In Michigan it is possible to get sunburn but I didn’t lay out in the sun to get my tan, I just played and worked outdoors and built up a…
I cut the grass, swept off the sidewalk and entrances as well as the entire back black-top area where we used to park. The last storm blew a lot of sticks and little twigs and leaves everywhere so it looked as if that back lot was carpeted with debree.…
We own two houses. I am pulling weeds in flower beds at the new house today. I’ll go out in the heat with gloves on because the black mulch would stain my hands. It’s going to look so good when it’s done. They had someone plant some very nice flowers…
Well, we are here. We stole about quietly moving boxes from one house to another never letting on to the family in Florida that we were not going to be where they expected us to be when they arrived for their visit. They moaned that we would not have e…
Owen is wearing his first Band-Aid. He never complained and I don’t know how long he had been going around with a sliver in his left hand, but there it was this afternoon with a little puffy red circle around it. He probably got it while crawling aroun…
I like my yard. I love driving up to my house and seeing the grass cut and trimmed. I like the three big Maple trees in the front that truly tower over the house and almost entirely shade the front lawn. I like to mow my yard and see the tracks the mo…
I really hate it when I have something on my mind but I can’t talk about it. Whether it’s good or bad I mull over it and ponder till I’m blue in the face but there’s a line around certain subjects that cannot be crossed with an open mouth. Usually it’s…