Author: Laurie

  • Hey, I haven’t gotten my laptop up and running yet, so I am lunch blogging from another computer. Just ate an organic peanut butter and local green apple slice sandwich. I’ve been considering going on the Paleo diet, but I just can’t handle the thought of no peanut butter, cereal, or milk. If eating those…

  • I enjoyed this week, even with the brain zaps and the intense hot flashes and the excessive heat outside, because it was SO QUIET at work. My co-workers were out for various reasons and I had the office to myself and I caught up on my work. Then I reveled in the peaceful air conditioning,…

  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…

  • Here is a update of what I have in progress, artwise. I have kept a little air conditioning unit going on energy-saver in the back studio for the past week so that I don’t have the excuse not to go back there because of the extreme heat wave we’ve been dealing with. The light I…

  • Here it is, the Lake Waccamaw post. Last year was the first year in a long time that we did not spend a week or long weekend at the lake, so we were really happy to go back and spend some time. My sister and brother-in-law were staying four doors down at a little rental…

  • With a high temperature forecast of 104 today (and that is before the heat index is added), maybe I should be drinking iced coffee. Right now the temperature in the Back Forty is a reasonable 78, so I decided to take a few photos. With all my traveling I did not get a whole lot…

  • Who needs a video camera when this company provides this AWESOME website with 360 degree panoramic views! http://www.loughfoyleferry.com/vguide.html I’ve picked out a place for Sandy and I to retire near Greencastle. Now I’ve got to save my pennies.

  • It barely qualifies as Saturday morning, since I slept late then went to the Greensboro Farmers’ Curb Market, but I do have coffee. That market just keeps getting better. Susanne has set up a booth where she sells her books, marbled papers, and handmade papers, many made with materials from the other vendors’ farms or…

  • Start reading my Ireland travelogue by clicking on this link and there is (or will be) a link to the next post at the end of each post so that you can read it in order. There are also links at the top of each post.

  • We have got to do better cleaning up this house. Miss Lucy’s asthma is acting up again. So I cleaned the kitchen and mopped the floor before I even started the coffee pot this morning. This afternoon I’ll tackle another room, and ask Sandy to check on the basement (it may be flooded) and fix…