Sunday, March 12, 2017


































The March moon is called the Worm Moon, but last night it was butter yellow and caught in the branches of our tree. I wanted to climb up and fill my cup with buttermilk moonlight.

March is my least favorite month of the year. Have I mentioned this before? I'm sure I must have. Last week was spring and this week is winter, and that is the miserably unpredictable dynamic personality of March. This morning the temperature was 10°F/-12°C. Oh, and a n'oreaster is forecast for Tuesday: up to two feet of snow, biting winds, and coastal flooding. Won't that be exciting?

I felt poorly for most of the week, so I pulled out a knitting project (one I started last spring) and attempted to work on it while I was resting. It is the kind of pattern that requires a lot of concentration for each row. Frustrating, really. But, the finished project--a nap blanket with a lovely fern pattern--is so lovely; I am determined to finish it this year. Progress, however, is slow. I spend a lot of time ripping back and re-knitting.

On Thursday we went to Winchester center and I remembered my camera. Winchester has such pretty shops and store fronts. At the left corner of the beautiful brick building (second photo from the bottom) is Book Ends, my favorite bookstore. I received a giftcard for my birthday, so I bought The Vicar's Wife, by Katherine Swartz. It's just the kind of book I like, and I am really enjoying it. All winter I have struggled with being able to read, and I have sorely missed time spent with books.

Daughter no. two baked scrumptious s'mores bars this week AND some super yummy blueberry muffins. (Oddly, there are fresh blueberries at a good price available at the grocery store just now). Every recipe we have tried from Monique's site (Diva's Can Cook) has been outstanding.

This morning I went to church, and after Mass I barely made it to the car before I started sobbing. I think it was the music. It was sentimental and sad and depressing.  It affected me deeply and not in a positive or relgious way. I went for the Sacrament, but I got a lot of other stuff that I didn't want or need. It made me think about how individual churches shape people's experiences and thoughts about God. Hmm.

I want to tell you how very grateful I am that you have followed me to this new blog. I think I will always miss my old blog (the name of which I cannot mention because You-Know-Who might Google it and find me here). Thank you for taking the time to read my rambling thoughts and for leaving such warm, kind comments. It is my intention to reply to every one--although it may take me the whole week to do it.

Until next week. ♥

10 comments:

  1. if you lived down the road from me, I'd go out to lunch with you and listen to how much you aren't in love with March. I am okay with that month and I hope I could infuse you with some belief. March is a LONG month. My mother hated it intensely. I love your new blog home it's filled with your personality but has some privacy. I hope your new blog feels like home eventually!! Nice photos btw!

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    1. One day, Karen, I feel confident that we WILL go out to lunch together. My husband is a sales representative for Bloomsburg Carpet. The next time he visits the mill, I may go along with him, an perhaps we can meet up!

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  2. I too wish you lived down the road from me, I would love to browse bookstores with you and take tea. I myself dislike March, although for the opposite reason to you - here, it is the long battle between summer and autumn, and we get the worst of both seasons. I do love the promise of cold to come (but not the lingering muggy heat) and the big fat rosy moons. As for buttermilk moon ... how divine.

    I am sorry you've been poorly. ((Hugs)) I actually love this new space of yours, it feels like a deepening and refreshing of the old one, as if you have given your pantry a deep clean. But I'm sad you had to move against your will.

    I hope you feel better soon and take care in the coming storm!!

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    1. Dear Sarah, I am going to hold the wish in my heart that someday, somehow, we will be able to browse bookshops together and take tea, and perhaps even a bicycle ride down a country lane.

      Thank you for saying such kind things about my new blog. I am feeling better this week, and the storm was not as brutal (here anyway) as the news hyped it.

      I hope autumn will come quickly to you. ♥

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  3. I hope you are feeling well again now. That blanket is so, so pretty. I dream of knitting things like that--someday? Those baked goodies look so nice.

    Interesting thoughts about church. After decades of going nearly every time the doors opened, my feelings are very mixed. I'm still not sure that it's the place for me to be or that I am be nourished by church.

    Stay warm up there. It's cold here, too.

    Brandy
    impossibleway.livejournal.com

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    1. Brandy, I'm sure you could knit this blanket. The pattern isn't really difficult; it just demands all of my concentration, and at this time of year I tend to be distracted. LOL!

      Church is complicated, isn't it? And I don't think it's supposed to be. Tomorrow morning I am going to go to the 7:30 Mass (no music or any other extras). I do love the sacred space of church and the liturgy...it's everything else I could do without.

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  4. Sue - I hope you are feeling better by now. The weather news if full of the storm that has been dumping on you all the last couple days. These damp, cold early Spring days canbe brutal.
    What a beautiful blanket. I'm quite envious of you skill in carrying colors. I'm not good at it at all but this blanket and the mittens in your last post ate gorgeous.
    The clouds parted here on Sunday and the moon shown in all it's glory. Worm moon is right - the Robins are back and feasting in the yard all day long on the waking up wormys. And now March is half gone. Hang on, my friend. Hang on...

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    1. Liz, I am so very glad that your daughter is doing better! I received TWO letters and a beautiful card from you this week. Thank you! I did not manage a letter this week, but I am writing one now. You are such a faithful, lovely friend. xo

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  5. i don't love March, either. at all. it's a trickster month...we had the spring teasing and then, like you, a vicious winter return. not much snow, but the wind was demoralizing.

    i hope you feel better now....and i so love visiting this beautiful space. xo

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    1. Thank you, Mel! I am feeling better this week, and thankfully, we only got one foot of snow instead of the two feet predicted. Even though it is cold, the sun has been shining all week. ♥

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