84, Charing Cross Road was recommended to me some years ago by the wife of one of my employers. Nancy was a lovely lady in a later-in-life marriage in which I had the privilege to attend. She and Carl had a beautiful wedding mass and then guests were wined and dined at a charming restaurant [...]
Archive for April, 2010
84, Charing Cross Road
Posted in Books on Friday, April 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Posted in Adventure, Nature/animals on Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 12 Comments »
We took a little walk around a favored path a few miles from home. It was a cool but sunny day and the woodland path was mostly dry, making for a nice stroll. We had not walked very far when something caught my eye. Something I’d not seen before in the schoolhouse woods we frequent. [...]
Kezzie’s Moon
Posted in Family and friends, Nature/animals on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Tom phoned from the car while out on an errand to tell me to look outside at Kezzie’s Moon rising. Could a month have already passed since the night we drove home, exhausted and exhilarated and in awe of our newborn granddaughter? There, again in the early spring sky rose a full moon, almost as bright [...]
Did you ever see a laddie?
Posted in Gardening on Monday, April 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »
A few years before we moved from our old house, I planted a peony called Laddie. The first year, all leaves. The second year, one or two buds. The third year. Well, the third year we moved and I never did get to see what Laddie would do . . . . . . that [...]
On a soapbox
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today I am on my soapbox! Well, several actually. I love pretty soap boxes as well as scented bars of soap. I keep a bar in our most used bathrooms along with a pump of some sort of liquid soap. That way a visitor can have a choice – and so can I! I like [...]
Christmas in Connecticut
Posted in movies on Sunday, April 25, 2010 | 9 Comments »
There is a delightful blog called Hooked on Houses where there are a good many posts about houses on the market – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and a really fun feature the writer, Julia, does about houses used and seen in movies and on television. When you have an hour or two [...]
Stillmeadow Farm
Posted in Books, Family and friends, Gardening on Saturday, April 24, 2010 | 26 Comments »
One blustery day in early winter, restless and not quite yet ready to hunker down, I wandered to Jackson Square Mall, a mid-sized antique mall in downtown La Grange. It is a comfortable antique “haunt” in the western suburbs of Chicago, housed in an old factory near the railroad tracks, with small booths and a [...]
Unfurling
Posted in 1, Gardening on Friday, April 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Mrs. Robin sits patiently on her nest these day. We can see her tail from out of the back door. It is only a matter of time before the eggs hatch and one of is, shall we say christened as we try to get the key in the door without disturbing her. Right now we [...]
Fishin’Pals
Posted in 1, Adventure, Family and friends, Nature/animals on Thursday, April 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Don’t you just love to hear where an interesting idea goes – how it starts swimming around like a fish just under the water, making little circles on top as it floats around, just waiting for the right moment for you to reel it in. A good ol’ fishin’ story to catch in your net. [...]
The Grapevine, Part II
Posted in 1, Adventure, Family and friends, Food on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The kitchen table was covered with newspapers to keep it protected and to help absorb the moisture from the grape leaves. The leaves had to washed and then picked through as we looked for little green worms that had to be discarded or a leaf that had been chewed on by some creature from the [...]
