Stitches of Violet

This past week we worked in the basement. Jay did even more than I did. I don't know how he's still standing, because I have crashed...

Last Tuesday we put together an assemble-it-yourself TV table for our cacti. We put it together backward, inside out, and with great patienc...

My previous program for reducing the size of pictures to make them blog worthy does not work on Windows 8.1. Fortunately the updated Canon...

A little over a week ago my step-son Jeff arrived with a new laptop for me. It was not a surprise. It was purchased with my approval and m...

Weather in SW Michigan ... It's a nice, rainy late spring day. Temperature in the low seventies. Tuesday we bought our contribution t...

Monday Jay and I picked up my new ride at the Subaru dealership, breaking my thirty-five year tradition of Toyota loyalty. She's a 201...

Monday morning I turned in the keys to Mom's apartment. That means it was empty and reasonably clean, one of the biggest tasks I have do...

Weather in SW Michigan ... It's springtime! The village grass has been mowed for the first time. Not our grass. Our grass is just spr...

Last week I was so blessed and thankful to have my brother Dave come to Kalamazoo from Oregon to help sort out Mother's personal things....

** A pictureless, personal blog post. ** I have personal rules about what I will and will not blog about. Most of the past three months f...

Mom died February 9, 2015 after four weeks of hospital/hospice stay. On her wedding day in February, 1944. She would say the happiest da...

We are settled enough to be functional and only occasionally have the need to get into unopened boxes to find something. That's the enco...

What a year! Everything in my life changed except I'm still driving the same old car. The activity started January 9 when we were ta...

Thanksgiving Eve I lost my last and most loved dog. She was named Sunshine after the song 'You Are My Sunshine' because she lighte...