THROUGH MY WINDOWS

It's such a dark and dreary day here. I looked through my albums for something pretty and refreshing to give this blog posting  a bright and cheery beginning. Hope you like the picture as much as I do because the rest of the photos are not  nearly as  colorful!   What a cold snap we are going through!  I have been hibernating like a bear!  Crock pot cooking, a bit of baking using the raspberries we had in our patch last year (it sounds really ODD saying "last year" )...and hooking a bit while watching movies we bought with our gift cards from Christmas and my birthday. Even hubby who hardly ever sits still has been forced to stay inside out of the frigid temperatures. Sometimes I can't stand myself being such a sloth so force myself upright, bundle up into my warmest Winter garb and step outside. Lucy and I walk around the property-well, I should say I walk and she runs and barks telling those squirrels and the neighbor's dog that she has arrived and how abo

BITTERSWEET Well, hello there and welcome to another year. Whew, I am glad to see the backside of 2014 considering what has been happening around the world, nationally as well. So much violence and turmoil and sadness. Sometimes watching the news was not for the faint hearted.   Here at home I had to say goodbye to a couple of loving pets. Our Pookie, age 10 or so,  back in the Spring Pookie came to us as a stray. She was living under our shed when we discovered her, half starved and pregnant. Only one of her babies lived, Tucker, who is a lovey. His picture is on the sidebar of this blog.  and  my beloved Chihauhau, Chloe, age 15, and my little buddy. She went to doggy heaven the 5th of December.  Chloe and Lucy, always together. She was a great traveling companion as we made the trek from Pennsylvania to Maine many many times over the past 15 years. It has put me in a funk, big time, and I am trying to get to a place where I can move on withou

TIS THE SEASON  A season to celebrate our Lord's birthday and a time to make little kids (or big kids) happy because most of them can pretty much tell what they are getting for Christmas. That is if they are in the age range of my two granddaughters. My son stopped by yesterday and said that he and wife have given up on surprising the girls, age 12 and 16, because most of the time they need the girls there with them when they shop to show them what it is that will bring smiles to their faces on Christmas morning. According to him, he knows what he is getting and his wife knows what she is getting because she bought it and told him that is what he's wrapping this year. As for him, his wife can't keep a secret and has dropped so  many hints that he has figured it out.  Haha, what a hoot!  As for us here at the Zarzky house, we are two sticks in the mud/snow. Neither one of us has a clue what to get the other because we already have too much stuff and need to part

BEAUTIFUL BETHLEHEM The warmth of the sun was on my back last week as I took advantage of beautiful Autumn days to get out and about with my camera.    I had been cooped up in the house for awhile nursing Roger after his 2 back to back surgeries and getting the house cleaned and back to normal after my last trip to Maine and pet sitting  for my daughter while she and family were on vacation.   The leaves are just about all off the trees now. Leaves and more leaves. Lots of work for Roger and his tractor when he is up and running again. He is feeling much stronger everyday.     I decided to go for a drive to one of the many parks we have in our twin cities of Allentown and Bethlehem (Pennsylvania). Monocacy Park came to mind. Monocacy Creek runs through the park. First I made a stop at our Hellertown Library. A very happy and cozy place to visit. It did not take me long to drop off and pick up a new batch of reading material. I think of myself as a comp