I was going to save this post for Silent Sunday but decided not to wait. I don’t know what else to write about today, and furthermore, there is a story here besides the beauty of the lights. For 26 years Riverside Park in La Crosse Wisconsin has been lit up by millions of tiny Christmas…
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The Making of Spirits
It’s been almost three years since I posted about making Limoncello, the Lemon flavored Italian liquor that is bright and flavorful. Since that time, I’ve made at subsequent batches, but none with my own homegrown lemons. My lemon tree has since died, but fortunately, we are able to purchase Meyer lemons in bulk large enough…
Silent Sunday: Wisconsin Water
What’s your favorite Christmas Music? Why?
It’s a three hour drive from our home to our cabin. The music selections get stale as we travel through some of the smaller communities and back roads. It’s not that we loose reception, just that it all sounds the same after a while. Before we left yesterday for a trip to the cabin. I…
A Little Niceness Goes a Long Way Right Now
My husband makes a daily stop at one of our convenience stores. He’s gotten to know the staff – not really by stopping but because he was the company physician for a while. And, one of our sons worked at this older branch of the store for slightly over a year. One of the store…
Tragedy Close to Home: One last book review for 2020
It’s the end of November and I met my reading goal for this year already! I committed to reading twenty books and have finished them all. With a month left, I will surely read one or two more, telling me I need to increase my goal for 2021. Throughout the course of this year, I’ve…
Why Purple?
What’s with the color purple lately? This is a question I’ve been pondering. It all started when I decided to let my hair go gray at the beginning of the pandemic. By May, I knew that I needed to try and ease the transition between my colored hair and my naturally dark brunette hair that…
Woke: Resistance is not Futile
If you are reading this post, it is not what you think it’s about if you just read the title. I woke up this morning feeling that I was being dragged down….down into a black hole. Although I’ve spun around the edge of this hole before, very often around holiday time, I don’t think I’ve…
Silent Sunday: Vintage Glass
What is Normal, Anyway?
Yesterday, I wrote twice. I started a blog because I was angry. Angry at what specifically, I cannot really say because I don’t really know. However, by the time I was finishing the blog, my anger had waned and I did not know exactly how to end the piece. I was also ashamed for feeling…