My journal of big words and pretty pictures
I have a confession…. I eat while I work on my laptop and that means crumbs. What I don’t catch with my food shelf, a silicone keyboard cover captures. That is until it doesn’t. The last time I had to replace the cover was a smidge over two years ago. Perhaps I purchased a more … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: D minus
Earlier this week, some friends and I were being nostalgic about food we ate, and loved, as kids, but as adults we know how weird it really was. Who remembers Green Stuff, that ubiquitous family potluck dish Great Aunt Millie’s would always bring? That stuff made of lime jello, crushed pineapple, pecans, cottage cheese and … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Delicacy
This week I got a new haircut. I’m trying to be my true self and embrace the grey. (That’s not grey hair, that’s glitter!) For a while, I went fiery. I had always wanted to be a redhead. I liked it, but one thing about dark hair, dark red hair, is that grey roots are … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Beauty
It must be spring… my songbirds are back. I recently rehung all my bird feeders and hummingbird jars, and my little feathered friends have returned. There are goldfinches, purple finches, wrens, chickadees, titmouses (titmice?), a pair of cardinals, and some I have no name for. Yesterday, I set out a few flowering plants in the … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Bird
I hope that this change in seasons will give me the kick I need to get motivated… to do more than sit on my arse and binge watch Netflix. Well, I am crocheting but that takes very little effort. It’s been rainy around here, so even it I was so inclined, I wouldn’t go outside … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Boredom
Perhaps it’s a sign of advancing age, but when I found a little extra money in my budget this month I didn’t opt for new spring clothes or a new purse, no I was more practical. I bought a spot rug cleaner, and I am ][ this close to being giddy about shampooing my carpet. … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Spot
Thin spiral notebook 