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  • Baking is such fun! Thanksgiving was an opportunity to make Amish Dinner Rolls from the King Arthur Flour website.  Today I made Light Spice Holiday Cookies (also from King Arthur Flour recipes) and hunted down the Christmas cookie cutters…and a few other shapes 🙂 In a recent conversation with my niece I shared some ideas for gifts…

  • My dad was a wonderful wood worker and all of us kids have several of his pieces. One of mine was a four poster bed that he built from cherry wood when I was about 12 years old. Over the years the bed moved from my childhood home in Upstate NY to RI, then MI…

  • Belated Halloween greetings from the safety of our front porch 🙂

  • Hmmm…plant expert needed! This delicate flower is blooming amidst a jumble of others from a packet of wildflower seeds. At first I thought it might be Cardinal Flower- but the leaf type doesn’t exactly match. Any thoughts WordPress friends?

  • The trio in the screened window incorporates one adopted by the foster parents (the little gal in the middle) and the two Tuxies still waiting for their furrever home.  

  •  Happily, Caturday turned into fun and games next door. All the remaining fosters ran free around the house with three adults “supervising”. Right. The Mouse Game:

  • John McCain speaking at Commencement at my alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University   All I can say is, if you are shattered by the presidency of Trump, consider daughter Meghan McCain’s eloquent eulogy McCain Eulogy                        

  • Three of the foster kittens next door remain…ready to be adopted!

  • What’s up WordPress? I usually enjoy a break from NPR/ CNN/ C-Span and local and national news feeds that I follow…through my WordPress account. 😦 So…in order to realign my peace with WP- here is a cat picture: Say hi to Iris