Coasting Along

We're in the glory days of fall down here, and I'm loving the gorgeous trees. Our backyard keeps getting prettier everyday...I need ...

From Stephen Colbert's show Tuesday night (Stephen is a fake conservative pundit, for those who don't know): "You’re the ones w...

Well, it's a good week to be a Democrat. (For once.) Got the House back, might squeak through and get the Senate too, and the cherry on ...

Didja vote??? I did! I love to vote. It's literally one of the most exciting days of the year to me...some years more exciting than oth...

Halloween was great...we had about 75 trick-or-treaters, and the glow sticks were a big hit with everyone, from the tiniest toddler to the t...

Porch is cleaned off, ceramic jack o'lanterns are in place, pumpkins and pretty chrysanthemums are bought, glowsticks are ready to glow,...

I had a root canal under sedation on Friday morning, and my mouth feels pretty raw on that side still. It's been a weekend of Vicodin ha...

Sunday was my thirty-sixth birthday. I had a low-key but fun weekend...Saturday we went to the Poquoson Seafood Festival, which is just a to...

Late last night I was sitting at the computer with the window cracked, and I could hear owls hooting to each other up and down the ravine in...

I've been cruising various sewing and crafts sites for a couple months now, and at some point I found this site and this pattern for an ...

Here's an awesome little time-waster of a site: carve your own virtual jack o' lantern ! I love Halloween. I ordered 100 glow-stick ...

Todd was playing golf Monday afternoon when a friendly pigeon started following his group from hole to hole. It started diving at a couple o...

The thrifting gods have smiled on me lately. I got re-bit by the thrifting bug after a really long hiatus...I think what caused it was readi...

Today marks a momentous moment--the day the slippers come out of the back of the closet and take up their cold-weather role as my feet's...

I was making the turn into our neighborhood this week when it struck me that it was a really similar day to the day (bright, sunny, autumnal...

Okay, so I need to get batteries for the spare digital camera, because this is my umpteenth post with no accompanying photos. Not that I hav...

Well, I've certainly neglected this blog over the summer, haven't I? Virginia has a peculiar weather pattern I've noticed the pa...

The phone rang very early this morning and woke me up. It was only a telemarketer (grrr), but once I climbed back into bed, I thought about ...

That's what we had today courtesy of TS Ernesto. The wind actually woke me up this morning...and for it to penetrate through the hum of ...

The NSBR (non-scrapbooking-related) board at Two Peas is a blessing and a curse. A curse because it's easy to lose large chunks of time...