Sunrise, Sunset, Swiftly Fly the Days

What a day!  By 8:00 a.m. I was in a meeting about starting a community garden, followed by a visit to the county commissioners, then the auditor’s office.  That was followed by five hours of working on township business - talking with a state EMA (Emergency Management Agency) rep and two appraisers about the grant for the house that [...]

Peace and Pitas

Solitude.  Who knew I needed it so much. The basic difference between introverts and extroverts is that the first recharge their batteries through quiet solitude while the latter draw energy from being among people.  I’ve always known I’m an introvert, but even I am surprised at how much the quiet of the past two days has been a [...]

Where’s All My Energy?

I have been doing really well on all the nutritional supplements, but have fought first a cold then an intestinal bug in the past ten days or so and am still running a fever.  Does tend to wipe one out (no pun intended). I slept about 20 hours yesterday, waking in the middle of the [...]

What a Beautiful Day!

This was the kind of day we wait all year for – high in the 80′s, bright and sunny most of the time, humidity not terrible, light breeze.  Too bad they can’t all be like this. I spent two hours with two garden hoses, watering the garden, the young fruit trees, the strawberry bed, the chrysanthemums [...]

Canning Salsa, Among Other Things

I had so much to do today I didn’t know where to start, but decided to can salsa anyway.  That was after I worked on a church presentation most of the morning and fixed the food for dinner guests. I have a lot of Roma tomatoes and someone had to do something with them.  I’ve [...]

On Life

I’ve been so busy living life that I haven’t written about it in a long time.  I guess that’s a good thing - having so much to do in life that the blogosphere drops off the radar screen.  Gardening, preserving food, working on township “stuff,” spending time with family, etc. etc.  Life is good. Today I [...]

When Does Life Slow Down?

I’m a grandmother of 16.  Shouldn’t I be sitting in a rocking chair, wrapped in a shawl and crocheting blankets or something? Instead, I hardly have time to eat, let alone sit and rock (although I don’t seem to be losing weight – hmmm).  Between a week’s vacation, out of town trips to work on a [...]

Holding On, Not Wearing Out

What a week!  And it isn’t over yet. Sunday’s fire station dedication and open house went well, with 200 people at the ceremony and lots more stopping by for tours.  Here’s a picture of the new building. Yep, a frosting fire station flanked by flaming cake.  Pretty nifty.  Wish I were that talented; we bought them from [...]

Better To Wear Out Than To Rust

The furniture was delivered this week and we have started moving into the new  fire station.  Woo hoo!  I will finally have my own office, phone and computer – can you believe eight years of sharing?  Anyway, Bud has agreed to help get the computers set up over the weekend, even though the internet connection isn’t [...]

What a Glorious Day

I feel like bursting out in song, something like “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma. No one would want to hear that though (not the song – my singing), so I have spent the afternoon working in the yard.  I have pruned dead wood out of lilac bushes, pulled weeds from flower beds all [...]