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#WordlessWednesday: Disappearing Skill

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Midnight of the Year

Steve is giving me dirty looks, guilt tripping me because I haven’t posted anything on this blog in, like, forever.

[image error]Steve and coffee mug and dirty look

Well, my excuse is that I was sick over the holidays. Two nasty bouts of flu in the space of a month. And then, somehow, I just didn’t get back on the horse…

Steve’s having none of it (stuffed bears can be so demanding!). But there I was yesterday, looking out the picture window at the view of the lake, a thick white cloud hanging so low over...

Belated #WordlessWednesday: Light on a Winter’s Morning

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#WordlessWednesday: New Year Dawning

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#WordlessWednesday: Morning Star, or: 6:45 in December

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Fairy Tale Food: The Gingerbread House

[image error]“What came first,” my husband asked when I made this gingerbread house last year, “the pastry or the fairy tale?”

Good question. So I looked it up. According to the internet (scholarly fount of all wisdom), there isn’t any clear indication of when the first gingerbread house made its appearance on the scene of Christmas goodies, but it does seem that it was after the Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” became popular. Gingerbread men or other gingerbread figures for gift-giving had been around since...

#WordlessWednesday: Winter Sun and Dirty Window

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#WordlessWednesday: Colour

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Lest We Forget

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LEST WE FORGET

Husbands
Brothers
Fathers
Sons

Mothers
Sisters
Daughters
Wives

Point the rifle
Pull the pin
Release the bomb drop…

Lest
We
Forget.

(11.11.2018)

#WordlessWednesday: Dusk in November

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