Booking It Through Summer

Where I live in southern Alabama, summer isn’t one of those “blink and you’ll miss it” affairs.  No, our summers tend to arrive early– usually before I’m anywhere near prepared– take a look around, decide they like the place, and settle in for month upon steamy month, often lingering (stubbornly impervious to polite hints that […]

Starry-Eyed with the End in Sight!

Mister Frodo (and Luna, Trixie, and the rest of us) wish you a belated Happy Independence Day!  It’s been a bit of an odd one– a quiet weekend for us, except for the noise of neighbors’ fireworks last night– but it was peacefully pleasant.  Homemade burgers and fries, movie and TV on the comfy couch, […]

Finished: “Tavra”

I try to have only one doily project going at a time, because otherwise, one gets pushed to the side, and I lose interest.  The subject of this blog post has been my “in-progress” doily since the end of last November.  It shouldn’t have taken so long to finish, because it’s not particularly large or […]