Coasting Along

Today's blogging challenge at Two Peas: 1- your worst habit? Procrastination. 2- your best feature? I guess my toes are kind o...

What a gorgeous fall day we're having here today. This afternoon Todd blew and I raked leaves and twigs down the yard to the edge of the...

This is a rough piece I wrote a few weeks ago...it was sort of a late-night insomnia session. It's not polished, but I wanted to get it ...

I have just about had it with this perpetual headache. I don't know if it's an artifact from my cold of two weeks ago, or if it'...

A couple more backyard pics...the red leaves of our little dogwood tree, and the view from our dining room. The picture doesn't half do ...

I just pulled a batch of pumpkin scones out of the oven...the recipe's over on my much-neglected food blog . Check it out!

I was perusing my bookshelves looking for something to read yesterday, and I spotted a book whose time has almost come--a book of holiday sh...

There's nothing like getting up early on a Saturday morning and opening all the windows and seeing the chaos and dirt that fill your hou...

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...