And immediate aftermath. At 3:34 p.m. Christmas Day, it was 53° and raining. Christmas Eve day it was just as warm and less wet and I ran into a neighbor who called it “lovely, but so wrong”. A perfect way to describe the weather. I wish I had thought of the phrase 10 years ago … [Read more…]
I keep having this feeling that it’s all slipping away and I’m neglecting my recording responsibilities. I have never journaled; this blog is it. I envy my brother and other friends who have been writing in notebooks for years. I feel like it’s too late to start now. Plus for me so much is the … [Read more…]
So, I, like lots of other people now, have been having trouble sleeping – although I have not been a good sleeper since menopause, and normally get up every two hours. The problem now is that I often can’t fall back asleep, and when I do I often crash out hard for 15-30 minutes and … [Read more…]
When cookie season is terribly compressed. Not enough weekends, and the ones I do have, I keep giving up for trips to Chicago. I’ve made one cookie kind so far, the lebkuchen. This year I tried a new recipe, from King Arthur Flour, and I kinda like it. I made my normal batch using the … [Read more…]