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Good morning, my friends. Well, I said I was going to get into trip preparation in earnest, and it started yesterday. Somehow a switch got flipped in my brain, and I convinced myself it was time to put thinking into action.

My first stop was to use some things that have been hanging out in my freezer. I baked some cookies. These will be for taking along in the truck. We often eat something like a protein cookie or a Clif bar when we don't want to make a stop for lunch. These cookies are made with nuts, dried ...

Good morning, my friends. Well, I said I was going to get into trip preparation in earnest, and it started yesterday. Somehow a switch got flipped in my brain, and I convinced myself it was time to put thinking into action.

My first stop was to use some things that have been hanging out in my freezer. I baked some cookies. These will be for taking along in the truck. We often eat something like a protein cookie or a Clif bar when we don't want to make a stop for lunch. These cookies are made with nuts, dried ...

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Monday. April is winding up and May is bearing down on us. The merry month of May is when we'll begin our merry journey north, but we're still a few weeks away from that. Nevertheless, it's the start of a busy week, and May will only get busier as we go. 

Today I must make up a shopping list for a grocery shopping trip tomorrow. We might have been able to put it off for a day or two, but we're having the family over for dinner on Friday ...

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Monday. April is winding up and May is bearing down on us. The merry month of May is when we'll begin our merry journey north, but we're still a few weeks away from that. Nevertheless, it's the start of a busy week, and May will only get busier as we go. 

Today I must make up a shopping list for a grocery shopping trip tomorrow. We might have been able to put it off for a day or two, but we're having the family over for dinner on Friday ...

Good morning, my friends. We're expecting a warmer day today, and even warmer tomorrow. This week's menu includes at least one main dish salad for eating outside. We love sitting out on our front patio for dinner, and we haven't yet had good enough weather for that. Since we'll be gone for a good part of the summer, we're trying to squeeze in as much alfresco dining as possible. 

We made several stops on yesterday's outing. Our health insurance company started an incentive program a couple of years back. If we go in for ...

Good morning, my friends. We're expecting a warmer day today, and even warmer tomorrow. This week's menu includes at least one main dish salad for eating outside. We love sitting out on our front patio for dinner, and we haven't yet had good enough weather for that. Since we'll be gone for a good part of the summer, we're trying to squeeze in as much alfresco dining as possible. 

We made several stops on yesterday's outing. Our health insurance company started an incentive program a couple of years back. If we go in for ...

Good morning, my friends, and Happy Easter! When I woke up yesterday morning, I felt very much refreshed after taking it easy for a couple of days. Sewturday is the day I've given myself during the week in which I am guaranteed nothing but sewing. But it was a pretty day yesterday, and so I ended up doing a little of everything. 

Anne Lamott wrote a piece for the Washington Post recently about being born "for times like these." She and I are approximately the same age. She says in the piece that she's 71, and I am ...

Good morning, my friends, and Happy Easter! When I woke up yesterday morning, I felt very much refreshed after taking it easy for a couple of days. Sewturday is the day I've given myself during the week in which I am guaranteed nothing but sewing. But it was a pretty day yesterday, and so I ended up doing a little of everything. 

Anne Lamott wrote a piece for the Washington Post recently about being born "for times like these." She and I are approximately the same age. She says in the piece that she's 71, and I am ...

Good morning, my friends. It was a day like any other rainy day here. We had a few strong wind gusts with the added bonus of all the kitty beds and kitty towels flying everywhere on the catio. We had to clean up their house this morning. Must be nice to be a furry four-legged person with maid service on demand.

Warm and dry inside, I took the first stitches on April's block for the Sewing Room

Good morning, my friends. It was a day like any other rainy day here. We had a few strong wind gusts with the added bonus of all the kitty beds and kitty towels flying everywhere on the catio. We had to clean up their house this morning. Must be nice to be a furry four-legged person with maid service on demand.

Warm and dry inside, I took the first stitches on April's block for the Sewing Room

Good morning, my friends. It's a blustery day at the Three Cats Ranch. We were expecting rain. No matter the forecast, the wind always surprises me. Our winter was relatively mild, and so we got lucky with this unusual stay-at-home year. As of today, it will be 7 weeks until we head out for Alaska. We have dinner scheduled next week with two of our neighbors who will be keeping an eye on the place while we're gone. We'll be giving them keys and teaching them to use the alarm system. It's probably safe to say ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a blustery day at the Three Cats Ranch. We were expecting rain. No matter the forecast, the wind always surprises me. Our winter was relatively mild, and so we got lucky with this unusual stay-at-home year. As of today, it will be 7 weeks until we head out for Alaska. We have dinner scheduled next week with two of our neighbors who will be keeping an eye on the place while we're gone. We'll be giving them keys and teaching them to use the alarm system. It's probably safe to say ...

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Thursday. There's not much on my agenda this morning. Just one housekeeping chore. The weather was looking promising a little while ago. Now, it's clouded over again. If the sun comes back, I might get out for a walk. There are lots of blooming things in the neighborhood just now.

There was plenty of time for sewing yesterday. I quilted the second side of the border for Jericho Walls.

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Thursday. There's not much on my agenda this morning. Just one housekeeping chore. The weather was looking promising a little while ago. Now, it's clouded over again. If the sun comes back, I might get out for a walk. There are lots of blooming things in the neighborhood just now.

There was plenty of time for sewing yesterday. I quilted the second side of the border for Jericho Walls.

Good morning, my friends. I moved through the day like a zombie yesterday...not that I felt dead, but I tried to bore myself to death. It took me half the day just to get off the couch, and then I completely forgot to do my assigned housekeeping chores. And it got so late in the day that I decided not to walk on the treadmill. Some days are like that, I guess. 

On the must-do list, however, were these Lemon-Blueberry Muffin Cookies. I'm linking to the recipe there, but that in no way indicates a recommendation from me ...

Good morning, my friends. I moved through the day like a zombie yesterday...not that I felt dead, but I tried to bore myself to death. It took me half the day just to get off the couch, and then I completely forgot to do my assigned housekeeping chores. And it got so late in the day that I decided not to walk on the treadmill. Some days are like that, I guess. 

On the must-do list, however, were these Lemon-Blueberry Muffin Cookies. I'm linking to the recipe there, but that in no way indicates a recommendation from me ...

Good morning, my friends. Well, our big scary storm turned into a big nothing burger yesterday evening. We got some rain, but barely any wind, and no tornados nor monster hail. (I think our northern neighbors in Washington got the worst of it.) The sky grew dark around dinner time. Interestingly, I could see a rainbow, even though we'd only seen a few sprinkles of rain. You can see it in the lower half of the image below.

Good morning, my friends. Well, our big scary storm turned into a big nothing burger yesterday evening. We got some rain, but barely any wind, and no tornados nor monster hail. (I think our northern neighbors in Washington got the worst of it.) The sky grew dark around dinner time. Interestingly, I could see a rainbow, even though we'd only seen a few sprinkles of rain. You can see it in the lower half of the image below.

Good morning, my friends. It's a gloomy day here in the Pacific Northwest. The dense cloud cover has returned just in time to obscure our view of the total lunar eclipse. It is ever thus. We gave up on trying to see celestial events a long time ago. The sky is almost never clear when something especially interesting comes along. For that, we must drive to a different state...but not this time. 

I can actually recall seeing a total lunar eclipse in December of 1963 while I was living in Hawaii. I was nine years old. So, yeah ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a gloomy day here in the Pacific Northwest. The dense cloud cover has returned just in time to obscure our view of the total lunar eclipse. It is ever thus. We gave up on trying to see celestial events a long time ago. The sky is almost never clear when something especially interesting comes along. For that, we must drive to a different state...but not this time. 

I can actually recall seeing a total lunar eclipse in December of 1963 while I was living in Hawaii. I was nine years old. So, yeah ...