Weekend Happenings . . .

 See that solid bank of fog just off the next island? It rolled our way by midday Friday, hiding the sunshine we had enjoyed for a few hours.  It settled in thickly, wrapping us up…

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Pulling up the Covers . . .

Home sick today, mostly walloped by the emotions stirred up by a celebration of my mother-in-law’s life, held yesterday in our little Vancouver apartment. A very informal, but very heartfelt memorial, all of our children…

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Wine Tour in Puglia

L. to R., Natalie, of Tormaresca Wines, my daughter-in-law J, husband P, son Z, and son-in-law A. My blogging task this week — let’s call it a late New Year’s Resolution, shall we? — was…

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Joy, Delivered by Phone. . . .

 I LOVE modern communications technology! Until I retire at the end of this calendar year, I can’t spend as much time with my family as I’d like. Meanwhile, though, my daughters are wonderful about sending…

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Two Things Friday?

I was planning to post Five Things Friday today–I’ve been collecting images toward the post all week. But then my computer monitor faded into death yesterday afternoon, and there were too many incidents involving cat…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.