Post 22/2023 Saturday 17 June . . . In the 10 June blog I used the word exasperating instead of exacerbating concerning people facing severe health conditions. I wrote, "exasperating health conditions." I should have said, "exacerbating," as in facing intense, or "severe health conditions." I'll just use the word "lovely" to describe the flowers …
Pausing over obits
Post 21/2023 Saturday 10 June . . . I've been reading a crop of religion-related magazines friends have passed on to us. The latest post-Cornwall bundle (for the winter/spring months we spent in the UK) includes Anabaptist World, Canadian Mennonite, Christian Century and a few more. Thank you, Willard and Alice for upping our interest …
The beat goes on
Post 20/2023 Sunday 4 June . . . We have, we are, we'll continue to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. Mid-May with friends in Cornwall, UK. Same at home with friends and family in Indiana. More to come. Cards, bouquets, hanging plants, meals out, toasts, best wishes from far and wide. Lovely. We're chuffed/delighted/humbled/happy. Thankful …
Home from Home
Post 19/2023 Sunday 28 May . . . A week home in Indiana. Last Sunday we stood for two hours in a queue at Heathrow to reach check-in. We made the flight with no time to spare for breakfast. That was fine. We soon had a meal on the flight. Today we stood in a …
Brilliant time
Post 18/2023 Cornwall UK Friday 19 May . . . We walked to Una Restuarant for breakfast, cleared out the fridge, did almost final packing, squared up with our landlady, said goodbye to neighbours, had dinner at the home of Steve and Marilyn, basked in touches of euphoria from our sojourn this year and years …
The week in a few words and photos
Post 17/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 14 May . . . To describe our week would take a high tide swell of words and photographs--with too little time to surf through it all. We conclude our stay here at week's end. So, a few words and photographs are called to the rescue. The week encompasses: Coronation …
By foot, taxi, bus, boat and train
Post 16/2023 Cornwall UK Thursday 4 May . . . It was anything but a stay-at-home week. The days waxed strong in the company of niece Jan and her spouse John and Jan's daughter Jenny and her spouse Rory. Jan and John are spending a fortnight with us, Jenny and Rory came for a week …
A legacy of houses fires the imagination
Post 15/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 29 April . . . Welcome to a brief glimpse of two National Trust houses: Lanhydrock in Cornwall and Castle Drogo in Devon. Friends took us to visit these two country homes this week. Lanhydrock was completed in 1651, rebuilt after a fire in 1881 destroyed part of the building. …
Treading familiar and new paths
Post 14/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 23 April . . . Here's an entry from yesterday: 3:30pm, home from walking in the rain to get groceries for company coming next week. Umbrellas drip-drying in the guest bathtub/shower. At one point we stopped to chat with Jimmy, a neighbor from last year, He wondered whether we had …
Books and more books
Post 13/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 16 April . . . Books and more books have been and keep being published. I can't imagine being without a book; even as I'm grateful for having enormously whittled down my personal library. Library loans are a treasure. As are used bookstores--for donating books and finding others. At a …
It's About Now 