Monthly Archive: February 2020

29
Feb
2020

THERE SHE GOES, THERE SHE GOES AGAIN

I don’t know why I was just thinking about it, but one thing that I regret is that there are no home movies of my childhood. We never had a video camera, and Anders and I never got one either, when our kids were small, so I regret that, too. Even though we eventually had iphones, it wasn’t until the kids were nearly teenagers. We have a VHS of our wedding somewhere, and a film clip some friends took at an AWC fourth of July BBQ when Karin was quite young, but that’s pretty much it. So, February flew by....

09
Feb
2020

TIME OF THE SEASON

I refilled the bird feeder with seed and the suet ball holder today and was instantly gratified to see both of them immediately crowded with sparrows and songbirds the moment I went inside. It’s very satisfying to think I’m helping the birds in some small way and that they find their way to our feeders at all. I want to plant butterfly bushes this year, too, to try and put some part of our yard to use for butterflies and hopefully, bees. Most of our large yard is just grass, which isn’t doing anything useful and since we’re rarely out...

02
Feb
2020

DOWNTIME CHEZ LIZARDEK

I survived last week’s crazy but honestly, only by the skin of my teeth (which is a horrid expression, ew). It was grueling with work so busy and something to do every single evening. I didn’t get home most evenings until well after 9 and since I typically need to be in bed by 9:30 if I’m going to be worth anything the following day, it was a bit of a struggle to remain both upright and cheerful and I don’t think I managed all that well, if truth be told. It wasn’t that the things I was doing were...