whiteout

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david picked up some gorgeous orchids on sale during a trip to the home store over the holidays. they are blooming like gangbusters and we are managing to keep them alive—score one for the home team. the white one is doing a spectacular job of putting out, but the purply pink one kind of stealing the […]

shrug off

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it’s done! just in time for this gift to be on time, too—the birthdays are on sunday! this one is for my goddaughter who is turning nine years old. i am also sending her the doll shawl because she collects american girl dolls. she’ll love it. i get so excited about sending off these birthday […]

sun? no wait, rain!—no—sun! no . . .

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well, the sun WAS out this morning, but i see now that it was just taunting me! we are having a major rainstorm as i write! it has been gloomy all week here. for two days it threatened rain, but none came! we took the bikes out last night despite the threatening clouds, and we […]

reel me in

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sorry to be gone an extra day or two—we’ve had SUN here throughout the holiday weekend and into this week and well . . . david and i really needed to spend some time outdoors enjoying it. we did some awesome longer bike rides over the weekend; cycling is one of our favorite things to do together. […]