Vibrant tomato harvest
Following the progress of our garden is one of our all-time favorite summer activities. While harvesting a couple tomatoes for Mama‘s lunch, I discovered an entire bowlful were ripe and […]
Memories of a different life
This photo of me and Mama enjoying the beach at Donner Lake popped up on our Facebook “On This Day” memories today. It was about eight or nine years ago. […]
Caregiver props
This afternoon, as Mama and I finished eating lunch together, she turned to me and said how much she enjoyed the care I put into making her plate of food […]
Acceptance
I am learning to accept my current limitations. Yesterday’s limitation was that I used up all of my energy dragging my ass to the doctor’s office, pharmacy, and grocery store. […]
Roses filling our home
Today’s #OneGoodThing are these magnificent, fragrant roses filling our home, which were left over from our special celebration this past weekend. Our sweet friend Lisa brought buckets and buckets of flowers […]
Surrounded by love
This post is a little late because I was so busy having fun! Some of our closest friends came to help us celebrate life and making it through another year! […]
Swinging in the hammock
Today’s #OneGoodThing was enjoying the afternoon sun, gently swinging in the hammock under the plum tree in our garden with Mama. It was all kinds of great and a perfect […]
Sharing our oasis
This afternoon we had the pleasure of sharing our backyard oasis with our neighbors and their two little girls! Today was the first we really got to know each other, […]
Plums galore and zucchini every day!
Today was the big day — we harvested our Santa Rosa plum tree! Our first two summers in this house, we were unprepared for the sudden onslaught of ripe fruit. […]
Our first zucchini harvest
Today’s #OneGoodThing was harvesting our very first zucchini from our garden! Our zucchini went from garden-to-table-to-mouth within minutes and it was amazing! We sautéed it in olive oil with a […]
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