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The Advent of Santa: Day Four

December 4, 2010 • art • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • food • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • photography • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • women

Now here is a sooty ol' Santa Claus ... he must have been practicing getting into and out of some chimneys. The Santa in my advent yesterday was a candle Santa (again, I don't understand why Santa seems appropriate as a candle subject, because what if someone burned him and he melted. It is just one of the saddest thoughts, a melting Santa. But, I digress ... back on point, yesterday's Santa was a candle and today's is a candle as well. I bought this one not long after I bought the other one--perhaps a year or two later. Perhaps...

The Advent of Santa: Day 1

December 1, 2010 • art • blogging • children • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • farm life • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • snow • spirituality • thoughts • women

Sunday my baby grand-daughter helped me unpack my Santa collection and set the jolly old elves out around the house. We set quite a few of them all along the window sash frames in the four dinning room windows facing our barn. Others, we sat and stood all along the fireplace mantle in our sitting room. A few others we placed on the tops of floor cabinets, hutches, and a knee wall. After they were all arranged we counted them up ... 43 in all--I didn't realize I had that many so far. I started collecting them when my children...

NY Knucks: Knuckle Gloves for a Guy

November 23, 2010 • Christmas • country living • faith • family • fingerless gloves • gifts • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • Thanksgiving • travel • Upstate New York • yarn

I would love to spend a little time with you, my reader, on my blog today. It is a stormy day in upstate New York, and we are expecting snow a bit later in the week. The turkey is waiting to be thawed, the groceries and fresh produce from our favorite farm market are purchased and waiting for Thursday's big day of cooking and gratitude. Tomorrow morning I will try to sit down with a cuppa and do a bit of writing for you, but I cannot promise that will happen; it might be Friday morning before I can do...

Moments Art Show, another go 'round

November 3, 2010 • art • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • friends • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • relationships • romance • spirituality • thoughts • travel • women

Can you imagine waking up in the morning and greeting the first person you see -- whether it is your spouse, partner, child, or even yourself in the mirror -- and bursting forth in the biggest grin and saying genuinely, "Hey, it's you! I get to have another day in this life with YOU in it! "

October comes lovely

October 14, 2010 • art • baby • children • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • farm life • flowers • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • photography • relationships • romance • socks • thoughts • yarn

October comes lovely each year, whether cold and wet or crisp and windy ... for me it is the most lovely month of the year. Our trees are at what looks to me like peak or near-peak color today. It is rainy and dark, but the autumn leaves glow far and wide bringing a strange brightness to what would otherwise be a gloomy, moody day. My son is visiting, and yesterday afternoon we all took a quick two-mile bike ride; Grandpa, me, little Sweet Pea in a trailer pulled by Grandpa, her mom (my daughter) and my son. It was...