We had a truly unpleasant experience last night at our local Best Buy. Bear in mind that we have purchased computer equipment, a freezer, a television, many types of video games and other items there, and Tom gets fairly nice little rebates on the purchases because most of them are more than 50 dollars. We […]
Month: March 2013
Part of the story
Words might not be necessary… We are sad. Not much left to rebuild on, but we will start again, at mid-life, and hope that experiencing this sort of loss now prepares the children a little bit for anything they encounter.
Passages:Lucky
He was a good boy.
Rainbows and pots of gold
We get rain here. A lot. And frequently. It is rarely torrential, thankfully, but it leaves us feeling soggy a good bit. Because our rain exists as a “state of being” for months at a time, rainbows are fairly uncommon most times of the year. When they do show up, they can be hard to […]
The lovely green…
The middle of March, one of my favorite times of the year. Spring is about to begin, according to the sun. Most years, for us, it is several weeks in. Although a few years ago, spring was still months away! Here are the latest updates from the garden.
March: in like a lamb… (for the Salish Sea)
Friday night when I got home I noticed a pair of daffodils almost blooming by the edge of the driveway. Yesterday, they were in bloom, and today they have been joined by some of the daffodils under the medlar. There have been several years when our weather was contrary to the weather in other parts […]