POST 2/2026 CARBIS BAY, CORNWALL UK--Cold temperatures bookend home in the US to "home from home" in the UK. We've traded snow and wind for rain and wind, all nature's elements to be reckoned with, this year in their overabundance. Elements aside, it's good to be here. Arriving in London. The Paddington Bear family also …
POST 24/2025 GOSHEN INDIANA: Blueberry season has started. I searched among our cookbooks--those left after multiple purges in recent years--and found only two recipes for blueberry pie. One of the recipes called for 4 cups fresh berries, 3 T. flour, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup sugar, 1/8 tsp. salt. I wanted to prepare an open-face …
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POST 23/2025 LAGRANGE COUNTY IN: Fast growing corn, haying with horses, scampering rabbits, an ostrich, neat gardens, Amish traveling in buggies and bikes, fireworks display, the early morning song of the Cardinal (Indiana's state bird)--that's what we saw and heard in the county next door last week. A baler that makes big round bales. The …
Post 20/2025 Goshen, IN: Who would ever think of using the word "SASSY" in Wordle? Guilty. I must not have been thinking. I used it today as fourth choice before settling on "TAFFY" in the final turn six. I was rewarded with a "Phew!" Oops-a-daisy on that one. While I didn't lose the game, I …
Post 13/2025 Cornwall UK. Extended family connecting in Cornwall started a few days ago. Niece Jan and her husband John and John's daughter and her husband arrived on Thursday. Jan's daughters and their husbands arrived on Friday. Surprise of surprises to Marty and me, and slow to dawn on us, Jessie and Mike walked unnoticed …
Post 9/2025. Cornwall UK. On Tuesday we walked on the upper footpath above Porth Kidney Sands, the tide out, on the way to Lelant for lunch at the Badger Inn. I found it refreshing, a chance to muse on things other than the disruptions across societies I read about in the news, and in a …
Post 1/2025 Goshen IN. What misery colds carry. Sniffles. Cough. Blahs. Concerns. Is it really just a common cold or one of the other superbugs that have a thing for our airways? Decaf tea with lemon and honey. Some OTC meds. No fever. Recovery seems afoot, even as worries linger. That’s my welcome to early …
Post 29/2024 Goshen Indiana. Marianne stays at home in her senior community in New Hamburg, Ontario. She doesn't drive anymore. Eschews WIFI. Is happy to stay mostly put. Yet this nurse who practiced in northern Canadian regions and in southwestern Ontario and served with her husband Ray in Botswana, is as active as almost ever. …
Post 11/2024/Cornwall/UK. Meteorological spring began 1 March in the UK, ending 31 May. Astronomical spring starts 20 March and ends 20 June. The first simply means splitting the seasons into four periods made up of three months each, making it easier for meteorological observing and forecasting to compare seasonal and monthly statistics. Tide's in in …
Post 6/2024. We're almost ready to hop across the pond to Cornwall, UK. I got a new passport in July. Plane, Heathrow Express and Great Western Railway tickets in hand. New waterproof walking shoes tested. Walking boots packed. Packing list checked and rechecked. New luggage scale at the ready. Gwen and Dean graciously on tap …
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