The Rose of the Wind

Past due updating again, sorry. Thanks for all y’all who seem to still enjoy my meanderings whenever they show up. I’m also sorry for not...

Hope everybody had good holidays. I spent Christmas Eve at my cousin’s house, sat up late binging The World According to Jeff Goldblum...

Hope your season is going swimmingly, whether you celebrate anything particular this time of year and whatever it is 😊 and however you...

Dang. Has it really been this long? I’m sorry. I wish I could say I’ve been doing something super exciting or productive that has kept me...

Part of the joy of driving up to the Smokies is that the weather is generally a little more moderate—cooler and less humid—than the basin...

For not having blogged in a while, I mean; something other than 'knitting ate my brain' or 'I was binge reading fanfic'. Last week, my...

Drive-by to update. Things are going as well as can be expected. I ran around like a nut the rest of the week after mom passed, and on...

Holidays got me again. Hope you all have had a great December! The weather here in Tennessee on the whole has been pretty good; slightly...

The holiday season…it eats up so much time! Not that that’s a bad thing. It’s just so much stuff going on that wasn’t going on the rest...

Sorry it’s been a little while since my last post. Time sneaks away sometimes, especially when you are busy. I wasn’t concerned, until...

Sorry it’s been so long since I updated. Real writing has eaten much of my free time in recent days, and I could not be happier about it....

I got a couple of job nibbles this week. Filling out applications online can be such a pain, though! I spent an hour one day trying to...

I’ve spent a good chunk of every day since my last post dealing with mom things. Monday I had to take her things, as I mentioned at the...

On Mother’s Day, I did go see mom. She…sort of knew who I was? I wore her favorite Winnie the Pooh shirt, and she recognized that; but...

Birthdays! The older we get, the less we want to deal with them, it seems. At least some folks are that way. Me, I try to be thankful I...

Quick update on life at the Ivy-encrusted Cottage. 😊 When we last left our intrepid heroes, the first visit of the sitter was scheduled...

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Americans! And a good Thursday to the rest of the world. I was going to write about my gratitude jar, it...

This morning I put a roast in the crock pot. Mom never used a crock pot when I was growing up; she cooked a roast the old-fashioned way,...

Honest, I didn’t think because I posted twice the last time I could get by with not posting for two more weeks. :D Life just gets...