Monthly Archives: January 2023

Think Positive    Rebecca Puig Remember when you go into the world to keep your eyes and ears wide open. And be kind. Love one another. Take care of each other. Tell the truth. Always do your best. Listen to the … Continue reading →

It may not be the only thing that matters, but I love it when it happens. So many companies are having trouble doing business as usual that I think being patient and kind is a chance to make this poor … Continue reading →

who likes it up there in winter. The big bare patches are where the deer (?) bedded down at night. The warmth of their bodies melted the snow. Andy says he wouldn’t like to be an animal up there. He … Continue reading →

When people ask Andy how much snow we have gotten up on the land, he has trouble answering. It depends on where you look. The wind usually makes a big drift by the greenhouse, but in other places it blows … Continue reading →

Being a data collector, Andy has a number of temperature loggers at various places in the house, shed, battery house, greenhouse, and well house. They collect data for a month, then he downloads that data to his computer and resets … Continue reading →

Our four free Covid tests from the government came, and I decided to test them because I’ve been fighting mild cold symptoms for quite a while now. They said to take two tests, between 24 and 48 hours apart. As … Continue reading →

Tuesday wasn’t as nice for Andy. Between the county and Adam the road was plowed to about a quarter of a mile from the house. Andy had chains on the Jeep so he tried driving the rest of the way … Continue reading →

When Andy left Monday morning he said he might come right back. He had strained a muscle in his left leg Sunday and wouldn’t put chains on if they were needed to drive in. Sure enough, he drove until they … Continue reading →

Last September I decided I would spend a couple of minutes a day on two things: drawing and memorizing songs to play. The idea wasn’t to produce anything, it was to exercise different parts of my brain and to form … Continue reading →

Andy and I don’t celebrate New Year’s, so Saturday night he went to bed around 10, the usual time, and as usual I stayed up past midnight. As the year changed I was catching up on blogs, reading and commenting, … Continue reading →