The hush before Christmas

by | Dec 24, 2012 | Miracles, Nature, Waiting

It’s Christmas Eve. If you haven’t finished your shopping, it’s probably too late. The baking should be done by now and you can work on Christmas dinner tomorrow. It’s the hush before the angels sing. Have you ever listened to snow? I remember,...

O Christmas Tree

by | Dec 15, 2012 | Miracles, Nature, Waiting

I planned to post a picture of our finished tree this morning as a follow-up to yesterday’s post. But somehow, I didn’t much feel like posting today. With the school shooting in Connecticut the season seems to have lost some of its joy. But Dave Ramsey...

Going off-leash

by | Nov 16, 2012 | Nature, Thistle, Waiting

Tomorrow is Thistle’s second birthday. Not long after we adopted her I remember thinking that we should be able to hike with her off-leash by the time she was two.  We’d enjoyed off-leash time with our three senior dogs in the woods and I wanted to do that...

But it's NOT winter yet!

by | Nov 2, 2012 | Food, Friends, Nature, Thistle, Waiting

We had a couple of inches of snow from Hurricane Sandy. Nothing compared to what folks further north are contending with, but it was pretty dramatic for Western North Carolina. Now the snow is gone, the sun is shining and . . . it’s still autumn. Oh, plenty of...

When I was a kid . . .

by | Oct 8, 2012 | Friends, Nature

I knew the day would come. I just didn’t think it would happen this soon. I am now, officially, peppering my conversation with references to how it was when I was a kid. Here are some of my more common, I-remember-whens: Gas was less than $1. Bought it at...