Collecting My Thoughts

Sometimes it's like wild kingdom outside my living room window where my desk is. Deer, heron, Mallards, rabbits, hawks, fox. I heard a ...

 On my morning walk I noticed a DIY moving truck and my neighbors loading personal belongings into their car.  So I stopped to chat.  They a...

Today we enjoyed a taste of fall--about 77 degrees here in Columbus. Our noon meal we ate on the deck--grilled salmon with honey/cinnamon g...

We’re in Columbus with a long to-do list.  I dug around in my files and got out my physical therapy charts for bursitis exercises from 2014....

It's hard to grow flowers when you're gone so much, but we're attempting again.  Most of our neighbors have such lovely blooms. ...

   It seems like yesterday we were going downstairs to the basement to shower while the upstairs bathrooms were being remodeled. The previo...

There are only 30 units in our condo complex, and some units have residents/owners who have been there a long time and others (at le...

It looked like a Christmas card outside today (I still have my wreath at the door) with a dusting of snow that clung to everything.  This is...

Monday we went shopping for a couch—stopped at 3 stores, and finally purchased one at Kittles we had seen last week. When they told us the d...

It should be nice enough this evening to eat on our new deck. Our old one was nearing 40 years old, wasn't up to code, and had some rot ...

Our next door neighbor’s deck. Walhalla Ravine, Columbus

One of the advantages of having an artist/husband is the wonderful homemade cards. This is the 12th anniversary of living here—January 20. I...

Christmas  these days seems to begin around Halloween when Christmas themed merchandise appears in the stores, although for some retailers...

We are stripping the walls, moving furniture, and emptying bathroom cabinets that will soon be removed.  The contractor is to start on Tuesd...

Not seriously different than the old carpet, except in my office which was very dark forest green and the stairs to the lower level which ...

Instead of buying off the shelf storage units for the garage, we had some new shelves and a tall closet built to hang out with the former ki...

A home is not an investment. It is a money pit only slightly more practical than a boat. And you do have to live somewhere. Here's one...

I did a little downsizing this week. Very little. It's tough to part with stuff! In putting away the laundry, I counted my husband's...

Yesterday a very wet, soggy landscape designer came to the door and introduced himself (I didn't recognize him) as the one we'd hire...

Or not.  According to the Dispatch, Columbus will need about an inch more rain in the coming week to break the record, 7.08 inches, which wa...