From the Kitchen Counter…

Weather Today:  Blustery/Cold

View from the front porch:

Mood Reading:  ZZZZ’s  (actually over-slept this morning – needed 2 cups of coffee to get going!)

Last week my friend Elaine called wanting to know if I could accompany her on a little outing to pick up some fabric trim for a home project, a foot stool she was re-covering.  She wanted my “expert opinion” (which is, as we all know, the female code words for a play date) and wondered if I had time to ride along. Read the rest of this entry »

Weather Today:  Raining Buckets (In the time it’s taken me to write this post, it has turned to snow and we now have about 2 inches!)

View ‘from the front porch’ (of cabin):

Mood Reading:  ZZZZ.5  (Got a great night’s sleep last night!)

Even though I slept great last night, I woke up to pouring rain and the disappointing realization that I’m NOT the world’s next g’zillionaire.

Two days ago, that wouldn’t have bothered me — that was before I, like millions of other Americans who shelled out over 1.5 BILLION dollars, caught the lottery fever and the chance at my very own pocket full of dreams. Read the rest of this entry »

Weather Today:  Sunny right now but threatening to change at any moment.

View ‘from the front porch: (At the mountain cabin–tryin’ to help Spring along here!)

Mood Reading:  ZZZZ’s (looove it when I get a good 8 hours in!)

A friend of ours from California, Steve Thomas, wrote my husband a note yesterday in which he mentioned my blog.  The hubby and the California Steve stay in touch regularly over their shared passion (read that obsession/fetish) – the pole vault. After reading of my “meanderings from the kitchen counter” which Steve has apparently been following via my Facebook link, he has offered some constructive advice regarding my novel.  Read the rest of this entry »

Weather today:  Cloudy, cold, light snow

View ‘from the front porch’ (at cabin):

Mood Reading:  ZZZ

(Stomach rumbled all night due to over-indulgence of corned beef and cabbage!)

Drove up to the cabin yesterday and upon arrival put on a big pot of St. Paddy’s day dinner and cracked open a bottle of our homemade Zinfandel.  Enjoyed second helpings of both, a roaring fire, and some decadent chocolate the hubby brought back from his most recent business trip – and then wondered why I couldn’t get to sleep. Sometime during the night the belly ache must have subsided and we woke up to a pretty, light snow falling this morning – welcome to spring in the Sierras!

This week a friend circulated a timely article to our bookclub entitled “9 Things Never to Say in BookClub”,  originally from the website of that Mother of all Read the rest of this entry »

Weather today:  Cold, gathering clouds, storm’s a brewin’…

View ‘from the front porch’:

Mood Reading:  ZZZ

(5 Zs is a terrific nights sleep and feeling fabulous – would have been 4 Zs but husband came home from business trip with nasty cold, poor guy, started hacking at about 5:30 this morning – not my finest hour under the best of circumstances-) Read the rest of this entry »

Weather today:  Sunny, breezy, and mild

View from the front porch (at ‘the cabin’):

Mood Reading:  Pre-exertion – ZZ

Apres-exertion – ZZZ and a half.

(5 Z’s is feeling mighty fine!)

Okay, I admit it – I’ve been in “creative avoidance” mode for almost a week now.  I’m not quite sure how I got here but it has definitely settled in.  I think it started when I sent the first 5 Chapters of the book back to my editor for her final review.  Read the rest of this entry »

Weather today:  Absolutely brilliant

View ‘from the front porch’:

Mood Reading:  ZZZZ

(Measured in Z’s, for how much sleep the night before – 5 being great!)

Woke up feeling mighty perky this morning, considering… Our friend, vintner, and wine-maker extraordinaire John hosted a ‘barrel’ tasting yesterday afternoon at his “winery” just around the corner from our house. Several friends and enthusiasts (not a true connoisseur among us, but we know what we like) tasted his wines which  Read the rest of this entry »