It’s  no secret that I love a good garage sale.  Rummaging is just entertaining.  You explore neighborhoods you don’t ordinarily drive through, and other people’s junk never ceases to be interesting.  Sometimes I make up stories about the people who were once attached to the items laid out for sale.…

Dr. Peds:  (to all the kidlets)  What do you do when you want to show Mom that you love her? YaYa:  Leave her alone! ———————————————————————- Dr. Peds:  And Now, before I go to work, I will hug and kiss your Mama. The Banana:  Maybe you could just give her the…

After hearing big, beautiful wind chimes at a local garden shop shortly after we moved here, I wanted a set of my own.  It’s been at the back of my mind for years.   Every spring I consider it, especially when I visit that garden shop!  However, wind chimes seem…

So, I’m a bit behind this week, the last week of school, which has been complicated by a student piano recital, an upcoming violin recital for The Banana, several school field trips and sharing times, a laundry crisis, an emergency garage sale, a gang of kids excited for summer and…

I love fog, it’s misty wispiness, how it is often chilly, always refreshing.  Driving through it makes me a little nervous sometimes, but almost all the time I’m soothed by drippy fog.  One of my favorite things about living where I do is that we have fog a little more…

Even though it wasn’t supposed to rain until afternoon on Saturday, the day of the Cougar Chase, thunder woke me up at 4:30, and the steady stream of drizzle and various levels of heavy rain did not let up.  I had volunteered to help at the registration table, and since…

The Banana made the sidewalk out our back door cheery and bright.