(Pictures are from yesterday) I woke up around 5:30 this morning, managed to stay in bed until just after 6 — couldn’t sleep, didn’t want to stay in bed. So I wandered out to the hardware store to get some hoses and hose materials (mostly connectors so I don’t have to have a single, 300-foot […]
Category: hope
Memories… Dreams and Wishes (Pollyanna speaks)
One year ago today I went to teach on a beautiful, sunny day. I left early, telling Lucky I would be home and we would go for a walk in the evening if it was nice. Tom was still asleep. So was Grant. It was a lovely, sunny, warm day. A few hours later, Lucky […]
Tile for the master bath
I am going to tile our shower. Haven’t done exactly this sort of thing before, but “how hard can it be?” — right? So today Tom and I chose the tile for this project, which will begin as soon as I have drywall. Probably next weekend! Here’s a little picture. I’ll take some pictures of […]
The roof on the house
A picture of the back (the color of the wall is not the final color…), the full length (that’s me in the doorway), and one of the front of the house showing one of the skylight boxes.
Step One, Foundation. Step Two…
I have a wall. Just one wall, about 30 feet long, but it’s a wall. Two openings for windows: Tom’s office and Grant’s bedroom. It’s not much (yet). It’s a start. The above picture was contributed by my mother, the rest are from today, when I was finally able to make it out there in […]
Today in my garden
A long time since I had a post like this. The plants on the mound are hanging in there. Among the tall, dry grasses are signs of the secret garden waiting to emerge. And further up the hill, behind my lovely chestnut, cedar and elderberries…
Stepping Forward, Stepping Back: The dance of change
In the wake of the fire, Tom and I are still working on finding equilibrium. The size of the apartment, the distance from my gardens, the lack of comfortable space and privacy, the noises of the city — and our neighbors — all conspire against the comfortable routines and patterns we used to have. He […]
What’s left, and moving ahead
The house is gone, the land is bare, but enough remains that we can see where we have been. And there is “just enough” of a hint of where we may eventually end up. Here are a few pics, and apologies to my friends who were looking for these two days ago — my energy […]
Thirteen years…
Almost fourteen years ago now, the house was placed in the yard (September 1999). I planted trees in front and on the sides the following Spring. Flower beds in front the year after that, if I remember correctly. And gradually the yard and the home took shape. A few years into the process, I started […]
Today, not in the garden
It has been a while again since I posted, but last night I wanted to share something with friends on a social media site and browsed through the pictures I posted here last summer. How things have changed. Hope, sadness; light, shadows; growth, decline; laughter, sighs. I have been waking earlier than my normal the […]