It’s been a pretty crazy spring for me, for us, and for a lot of people I know. Stress seems to be in the air, and all the doom and gloom in the media probably doesn’t help our attitudes very much. And while there are bad things happening to good people, I think it’s easy…

But not the illegal kind! I finally got around to ironing a bunch of shirts the other evening – they’d been hanging in the laundry room, patiently waiting, for quite a while. One had something in the front pocket. This was strange, because Mr. C. seldom puts anything in his shirt pockets. It was a…

I love sunflowers but have a hard time growing them. It seems that little creatures – birds and squirrels – eat all the seeds that I plant. Mr. C. finds this really funny – there are chickadees that actually follow me around the garden, pecking around until they eat what I’ve planted. This year, I’ve…

Yesterday, it rained. It’s been springlike, but it got cold and damp, and well, I wanted something warm. In the afternoon, I made muffins. I love muffins. I have pages and pages of recipes, many with little scribbled notes on the bottom for modifications and variations. I have never mastered the trick of mixing wet…

A few weeks ago, Mr. C. was asking about my sewing machine collection. Yes, I’ve admitted that it’s a collection. There’s a saying that once you have three, you have a collection, and I have (ulp) seven. They are all extremely cool but two of the treadles are in parlor cabinets. That means they’re furniture…