by Linda | May 12, 2009 | This & That
I spent last weekend potting plants purchased on Saturday morning, at Lowe’s. The place was a madhouse. 🙂 Still, I ended up with mini-dahlias, a pink azalea, some lavender, a few marigolds, etc. The next day I was at Fred Meyer, purchasing more potting soil. As...
by Linda | May 11, 2009 | This & That
I have the best daughter! She and beau-Jeremy sent beautiful pinkish-peach roses and luxurious bath gear for Mother’s Day, and we talked for well over an hour on the telephone yesterday, catching up. She’s a writer, too, so we always talk shop and...
by Linda | May 10, 2009 | This & That
A salute to all the mothers out there–especially mine. :)Thank you for always being there when I came home from school, and for listening patiently to all the chatter as I recounted my day.Thank you for the Nancy Drew books, for “Jane Eyre” and...
by Linda | May 8, 2009 | This & That
And I love it that way. As usual, I wrote my Morning Pages as soon as the dogs had been out, come in again, and given their strange but healthful breakfast. What a mixture! Green tea, canned pumpkin, string beans, kibble, and lean ground turkey. Yum-O, as Rachel Ray...
by Linda | May 7, 2009 | This & That
As I write this, I am looking out over the beautiful draw behind my house. Wild sunflowers are blooming, all over the place, in perfect clumps that look like bouquets. I don’t remember them from last summer, which just goes to show you how easy it is to take...
by Linda | May 6, 2009 | This & That
I am much more reconciled to the weather than I used to be! 🙂 OK, I love sunshine, but we’re having rain in Spokane, both today and tomorrow. Rain to make my dahlias and tomatoes and zinnias grow! My upside-down tomato growing thing-a-majig is on it’s...
