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Category Archives: Winter
What It Boils Down To
It’s that time of year in these colder regions where the maple sap is running. This past weekend a number of local people have been busy boiling down their sap. On a Saturday complimented by a stellar-blue jay sky, friends … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged February, maple sugaring, maple syrup, Memories, sap boiling, simple pleasures
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All Manner of Comfortable Things
“I’m built for comfort, I ain’t built for speed”. This line from a song keeps going through my head. I think it was Howlin’ Wolf . Didn’t Canned Heat do a version of it also? (I can’t find it if … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Holidays, Humor, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Chillow, comfort, comfortable gifts, holiday gifts, hot flashes, midlife, over 50, over fifty, privilege
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The Sore Throat Remedy in Our House
It’s that good ol’, bad ol’ winter cold time again. There are a few theories as to why this works (and it does). I envision the bacteria in your throat, your lungs, your sinuses, being killed off naturally – just … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Colds, Health, home remedy for colds, sore throat recipe, sore throat remedy, winter cold
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Rejoice the Winter Solstice
Rejoice! The Winter Solstice. The day began with a cup of chai. Then lunch at a little French bistro with family I haven’t seen in months. Warm holiday feelings. Chocolate. Baking. My Mother’s Boots. There are some fruit flies pinging … Continue reading
The January Bitch
Whew….. that was the crankiest of months, very glad that one is over. My rough January seemed to be set off surrounding the rescue of a spider….sort of. While having a conversation with my boss in the hallway, we simultaneously … Continue reading
Posted in Are you kidding me?, Coping, Humor, Rant, Uncategorized, Vent, Wildlife, Winter
Tagged cable TV, car delivery, Cataract Surgery, Cranky, Eye Surgery, last straw, satellite dish, Spiders
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Appliance Decor
We have a stacker washing machine in the bathroom upstairs, one of those top-loaders with the dryer that is actually attached to it and hangs over the top. It fits in a narrow area that used to be a closet. … Continue reading
Posted in Are you kidding me?, Coping, Humor, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Appliances, broken dryer, broken washer, frustration, home delivery, laundry, snowstorm, stacking washer, Victorian house, washing machines
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Same Time Next Year
For about the last seventeen years or so, my family and I have been invited to a New Year’s Day brunch at the home of a wonderful couple. They tend to invite a core of their same friends year after … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Hearing Impaired, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged aging, annual brunch, annual party, capuchin monkey, connections, friendships, Kindness, new year's day
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Out With A Bang, In With A Smash
Those of you who may have read The Shards of Our Lives earlier this year here may recall my bull-in-a-china-shop Significant Other and his propensity for breakage. New Year’s Eve – the ever familiar crash and “Oh, shit!” It was … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged broken dishes, bull in a china shop, clumsy, old year new year
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A Nice Start
The Clivia bloomed.
Posted in Gardening, House plants, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged a nice star, Beginnings, Clivia, New Year, winter
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And We Begin Anew
Here it comes…. 2012, our self-imposed start date to begin anew. Let’s work to make it a good one. Let’s all use our collective thoughts to move forward into something healthy, and intelligent, and kind. Wishing all fresh beginnings and … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged 2012, Happy New Year, New beginnings, New Year
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A Poisoned World
Recently I read that under Proposition 65 in California, artificial Christmas trees are required to carry a warning label. There is now consideration in New York State for consumer legislation to disclose a warning indicating a lead hazard in artificial … Continue reading
A Skill Not Possessed
I can’t wrap. It’s an art I never mastered and I am sure it is connected to the same ADD tendencies that cause me to literally cry if I have to paint a room. I just do not have the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged gift wrapping, Gifts, impatience, neatness, patience, Presents, the art of gift wrapping
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Why I Love the Shortest Day of the Year
It’s plain and simple. Once you hit the shortest day of the year, every day after that brings just a little bit more light and takes us ever so closer back to Spring. Hail the Winter Solstice! Here comes the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Oxalis, Purple Oxalis, shortest day of the year, Solstice, Winter Solstice
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The New Rules
It has been almost a year since I put up my first post after waffling about putting up a tree for the holidays, deciding to do it, ending up getting into it in a deep way which had nothing to do with the … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Change, changing traditions, children growing up, Christmas, Families, Holidays, new rules, Traditions
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The Febs
The Febs We have officially slipped into February, the groundhog is a wimp, and I think I am coming down with a case of “The Febs”. It was in the middle of one of those endless winters a number of years ago that I … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged getting past the winter, winter blues, winter doldrums
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One Redeeming Feature
I made this discovery only because we are experiencing some feisty weather around here this winter. A couple of days ago it was -14 degrees Farenheit here. That little dash is not a typo, it’s a minus; that is fourteen degrees … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Hot Flash, hot flashes, middle-aged, winter, women
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A Little Piece of Sun
A friend gave me some Paperwhite bulbs (Narcissus papyraceus for you botanical types) for Christmas. For those who might be unfamiliar, you force the bulbs in a pot indoors with the idea that they will bloom in the winter and … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Spring, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged forcing bulbs, Gardening, house plants, narcissus, paperwhites, taste of spring
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Ornaments of the Heart
December 31, 2010 It’s the first holiday in decades where we did not celebrate at home and the first year I have had to alternate the holiday, since my daughter has gotten married and has informed me that the rules … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged Christmas, christmas ornaments, emotions, holiday reflections, Holidays, Memories, reflections, rituals, routines
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