Category Archives: rhode island

happy st. patrick’s day

This impressive St. Patrick character spend Saturday roaming the main street of Wickford (RI) entertaining the people enjoying a warmish, dry day in a beautiful colonial town on the water. Isn’t he gorgeous? And I was out and about, too, … Continue reading

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see you next year, chuck

Poor Chuck. His holiday is over and he has been relegated to the “Thanksgiving Bin” for the next ten and a half months. We will miss his goofy, cheerful presence. So it’s on to winter… My childhood creche sat in … Continue reading

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new kid in town

This guy was an early birthday gift from Retired Mountain Lady. As you can see, he has a lot of personality and fits right in with velvet pumpkins and mums. He makes me smile every time I look at him. … Continue reading

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go fish

Yesterday Banjo Man and I took a break from Thanksgiving preparations and headed to Galilee, a fishing port about ten minutes away, for lunch and a view of the ocean. The sun was shining, the sky blue (at least for … Continue reading

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getting ready!

Three weeks and two days from now we’ll be heading out of Rhode Island to have some holiday fun. I bought new carry-on luggage to streamline boarding the plane. Smaller and lighter bags of more convenient shapes should do the … Continue reading

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let’s talk about this casserole

This casserole–appropriately named “Spaghetti Chicken”—is not for everybody, but I have to tell you that Banjo Man absolutely loved it.  He wants me to make it in Austin.  He wants me to make it at the lake.  He wants me … Continue reading

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oh, deer

We had a visitor Monday morning and Banjo Man, impressed with his size and good health, took about 27 photos. Here’s one of them: Meanwhile, back here in the office, I still await my new computer (ordered from Amazon).  It … Continue reading

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catch up sunday

I have not forgotten about blogging, I swear.  There have been…issues.  My computer is very, very slow.  As in “barely operating”.  I bought some software to clean it up, but nothing has worked so far.  Banjo Man has offered to … Continue reading

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going batty

This is a bin of leftover quilt batting.  Strips and chunks of batting from years of quilt-making have been saved.  Why, you ask?  Because it is easy to zigzag them together to create bigger pieces, “new” batting to use in … Continue reading

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where’s the bear?

Game cameras, ring cameras and maybe even in-real-time have shown proof that there is a bear wandering around our little wooded neighborhood. Yes, I live in the country.  In the woods.  We are used to deer, foxes, and turkeys strolling … Continue reading

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