Dear Miss D
Dear Miss D I want to express my heartfelt thanks for the short but thoughtful comments you left my last three posts, for your hopes that I feel better soon and especially the link back to that single page website with all those lovely photos of yourself. You are quite pretty. You weren’t cold dressed like that were you? And I would have been glad to leave your short but thoughtful comments on my last three posts but unfortunately, the links on your ever so lovely photos of yourself appeared to lead to another much more complicated website full of the type of photos that I’m sure would cause my cat to drop all it’s fur if he should ever chance to glance at

All sick and accounted for
We’re both sick today. Of course we are! If October in the Northeast Kingdom wasn’t bad enough we have to have the black plague on top of it. Now I haven’t told Laurie that I’m sick as well since she’s a lot sicker than I am. I did offer to go in and open up the quilt shop for her this morning but she decided to take on that task herself as she had things that absolutely had to be early (things I couldn’t do…like anything she does). I will be going in and relieving her at noon so she can come home and expire. Hopefully not permanently. I kind of like having her around. It’s a conspiracy, I know it. It’s how the new administration is takin

So where am I anway?
A friend of mine, in a recent post, was lamenting the fact that nobody seems to be writing up any posts these days. Like maybe we’ve all gone into hibernation or something, disappearing into the woodwork from whence we came. In short, where the hell is everybody? Has everyone said everything there is to say?  Is everyone too wrapped up in trying to stay alive during ‘our current financial blip’?  Or have people just gotten bored with the whole business? Or maybe all of the above? Hell, you got me. I do sympathise wi

The colors are past. Here comes the trash
This Autumn was beautiful. In all the years I’ve visited then lived Vermont I can honestly say that the colors were the best I’ve seen yet. And even though we’re a bit past peak here, the Tamarack is now at it’s most brilliant shades of bright orange/yellow. People come from all over to take in our Fall colors and that’s all fine and dandy. Just as long as they don’t scare the farm animals we’re okay with that. Sure, there’s always the odd ones out who decide to stop in the middle of a country road on a blind

There are times
In the often confusing,  frustrating world of writing, and blogging is no exception to the rule, there are times when those who take what they write at least partially seriously run up against the wall of their own limitations. For myself, it’s my own ability (or lack thereof) to describe the way I’m feeling; to express on paper be it real or virtual exactly the way the subject affects me personally—even if it’s short and silly or long and thoughtful. Then all of a sudden inspiration hits me and I’m ready to write but then I make the classic mistake. I decide to hit the web browser first and inevitably I find something to distract me and today was no exception. In f