And we were hoping for RAIN!

He (the infamous “weather man”) was wrong again.  According to yesterday’s TV map, a rainy belt ran through our Southern Wisconsin counties, with snow piling up in the north.  Joe and I have an entire day at home, with no clinic appointments.  This is a treat.  I’d planned to grab an umbrella, and walk in the rain.  Then [...]

Read Full Post »

Overflowing cups!

We have just returned from a mini-vacation at our Northern home, and I am a bit euphoric over warm spring and the beauty of Wisconsin!  Up North we thrilled to the loons, the clacking of frogs all night in our bay, the full moon rising over the river as viewed through our large bedroom window, a thunder storm, [...]

Read Full Post »

Shrieking, Rumbling, and Clacking

Exactly a year ago, Joe and I were totally contented in our up north home—believing we might be there forever, and thinking no place on earth could ever be so special.  On a below zero March day in 2009, I went outdoors and heard the distant shrieking of a train—a rare sound, as we were 9 miles from [...]

Read Full Post »

Wherever it may be, there’s no place like it!

Dorothy said it, and I second it:  There’s no place like home!  I follow the tradition of my mother and two grandmothers—all home-loving women.  When our daughter Martina was 3 years old, she was a social gadabout.  She would get up and play for awhile each morning—and then get restless and say, “I want to go somewhere.  I [...]

Read Full Post »