Christmas Tree
One day in early November, on my usual way home from an art class, I came upon this beautifully decorated tree. It turned out to be the Mayor’s tree.
One day in early November, on my usual way home from an art class, I came upon this beautifully decorated tree. It turned out to be the Mayor’s tree.
I posted recently that I didn’t have any Christmas lights on my house. Out front, that’s true. But I do have lights on our screened porch in back. We can see them through the great room windows.
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Going to pick out our Christmas tree this weekend. For years, we’ve gone to the same Boy Scout lot – usually on the coldest, ickiest night! There are so many pros and cons to both real and artificial trees. Which do you prefer?
Looking a lot like Christmas! Read More »
I’ve got my Christmas wreath up, so I’m ready for the holidays. No lights for us this year. Are you putting up lights at your house?
Ready for Christmas Read More »
It’s not your traditional holiday flower, but it’s blooming, and that makes me happy! I love indoor flowering plants. I’ve get a few orchids, the African violet and a Christmas cactus. The cactus is starting to bud, so it might be flowering on time. One of the orchids just finished a bloom cycle, and another
Blooms in any season! Read More »
I would’ve guessed National Pecan Pie Day would take place around the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays because that’s generally when I eat pecan pie. Though I’ve never attempted to make one, it’s one of my favorite holiday pies. The rest of my family doesn’t care for it. So, I often choose to take one for
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Now that I am a grandmother, I have been recalling times I spent with my grandmothers. My maternal grandmother began teaching me to sew when I was quite young. I was probably still in preschool when we began my sewing lessons. My grandmother had kept an old doll of my mother’s, and when I visited,
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Here we are, about to start February already. We are well into the new year, and it is time to send your Valentine’s Day cards. The card shop shelves are full of them (and have been since they took down their Christmas displays). As I researched the 1840s for my novels about the American West,
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This Christmas I made aprons for all the ladies in the family (including the littlest one.) One of the ladies’ husbands (not pictured) remarked, “To give my wife an apron is like giving a blind man a telescope!” I take it she doesn’t cook much. Each apron has a bar towel on the front so you
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As a writer of fantasy, I like to read it too. With one of my Christmas gift cards, I bought the entire Crimson Shadow series by R. A. Salvatore (on sale, of course). I really enjoyed another book by him (The Highwayman), so I decided it wasn’t much of a risk to buy the entire
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