Author: Annie

Blogger’s Note: I don’t think we’ll be sending many holiday cards this year. Aside from the expense, I just can’t get myself motivated to do it. So I’ll be emailing the following post to most friends as a holiday email, and sending it in letter form to those close to me who aren’t comfortable on…

My leading-up-to-Christmas and a bit beyond funk is past. I’m feeling certain it had as much to do with my lack of biking, walking (icy sidewalks) and darkness. But I paid my $25 for yearly exercise room privileges at our local Linwood Rec Center (once I get my ID card I’ll be able to use…

Cleo in motionOriginally uploaded by kpwerker If you’re in Whistler, BC – near Emerald Estates (or anywhere up there, really…) please keep an eye out for this lovely blonde Shepherd, Cleo. She’s Kim Werker’s dog, and was spooked by some blasting. If you see her, please email kim at kimwerker DOT com. Thank you! Burn,…

so many others, and of my Patsy. Yes, yet another cousin is passing long before her time, her fight with colon cancer ending after 8 valiant years. As Gerry said, “You didn’t have many cousins to start with…” Fewer now. Patsy’s a wonderful person, lively and warm and full of love. And funny, funny, funny….

I’ve been fighting through inertia for quite a while now. It comes, it goes, sometimes I even feel as though I’ve conquered it – but then it returns and I feel nailed in place. Good morning, Inertia – sit down… Is it the cold? It’s been a balmy 24F degrees (feels like 14) so I’m…

It’s been a lovely, simple, wonderful Christmas chez Landy. We’re very lucky, very happy – full of good feelings and happy to spend time with each other. Life is good. Gerry’s had a lot of excess pain over the past few weeks. Little things have happened that aren’t so little when everything is terribly painful,…

When the absolute worst happens, you don’t feel equipped to jump through hoops. I know this first hand, for several reasons, and I imagine that most of us have been through a bad spell with the no-question help from an outside source spelled the difference between living and existing for a few months. Last night…

Today I saw my kids flying downhill and I was very proud! Their big Hannukah / Christmas gift are 3 days of skiing lessons at the Hyland Ski & Snowboard Area (a few hours a day – it’s actually more reasonable than I thought it would be…) I was surprised to see how much they…

Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under…

This week I made several casseroles (one with Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup) and I hosted my local knitting group. I feel that all of this Minnesota goodness was in preparation for a prime time event: The Cookie Swap. When my friend told me about her family’s cookie swap last year I wondered, “Where have…