April 2017

Since Happy’s surgery, life has been somewhat chaotic. Not in a manic sort of way, but just our schedules, be what they may, have been thrown out of schedule. Plus, Scott and I have been battling nasty Mainland Spring colds which slowed us down on our projects. But, we digress… looking to the present, today’s…

Today, April 26,  is my oldest son’s birthday! so… Happy Birthday, George! He and his partner, Paul, are in either Paris or Portugal… though I try, I can not keep their vacation location schedule straight. But, no matter where they are it will be a glorious day because… IT IS… GEORGE’S BIRTHDAY! I remember the…

Expect the unexpected is what they say on Big Brother. Well since we arrived on the Mainland the “unexpected” has been the norm! When we first arrived in Chicago and we went to pick up our pre-paid Budget car, we were informed we had to pay again if we wanted a car. Obviously, with two…

Windows… this cottage has so many windows… regular windows, arched windows, triangle windows, diamond shaped windows, bay windows, and picture windows. The basement has the fewest windows with a meager nine (9) windows. The main floor has whooping twenty-three (23) windows. The second floor which has our laundry room, sewing room, and two bedrooms has sixteen (16)…

Well, yesterday our household goods arrived from Hawaii. All the boxes arrived unscathed with the exception of one. The one box that had a problem leaked fluid from a bottle of puppy silk hair conditioner that had never been opened. Though there is no point in unpacking many of the boxes, we did search for…

Sigh… snail’s pace is the most appropriate way to describe the pace things are being accomplished in our cottage. So today I will share with you bits and pieces of our piecemeal attempts to get settled in our home. Until our plumber/heating/air conditioning man finishes his portion of the work, everyone else is held up…

Scott is so precious… well, I have always known he was precious. But, what I mean in this instance, is… when he saw I had posted he was pulling down the knotty pine from the old kitchen, he said, “I better get down there and pull it out! It’s in the blog!” My adorable sweetie!…

House… gardens… house… gardens… challenges, right… challenges, left… what a juggling act… but, so much fun! Both house and garden need attention. Well, attention is an understatement! They are both in need of major overhauls. We do not think there is a single inch of this house or yard that does not need addressing. They…

So here we are sitting in our somewhat warm room… hunkered down… waiting for running water and a working toilet… with no car for the foreseeable future… not the auspicious beginning we had envisioned… At this moment the bright spot in our day is knowing our friends from Pennsylvania will be arriving later today. They…

This was to be posted on Saturday, but due to circumstances beyond our control we had no internet available until today. So with that… here is Saturday’s late post… This story begins…October 1980 “I just found out that children are being flown in from South Korea and they are searching for prospective parents,” my husband…