Category Archives: Island life

A whirlwind birthday week

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Old Woman

The wind is howling outside. Jerry and I walked our daily walk this morning and it was beginning to blow then. Now I see on Nextdoor Lummi Island someone has posted that the gusts are up to 69 miles per … Continue reading →

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Limbo

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Old Woman

It’s the week between Christmas and the New Year. It seems as if nothing can happen. And yet, in the world, things are happening. An Asian Airlines plane has gone down in the Java Sea. A ferry is burning off … Continue reading →

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Power Failure

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Old Woman

We had a brief little freeze early in November but the garden recovered and I was still pulling carrots and beets until last week. The parsley revived. A rose bloomed. Then an icy northeast wind blew down from the Frazer … Continue reading →

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The comfort of women

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Old Woman

I’ve been thinking about social life. Although I am old now, I try to remember how it was when I was young. Part of my childhood was spent with few other children to play with. In semi rural Massachusetts at … Continue reading →

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Home again jiggety jog

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Old Woman

The trip on the ferry should have been restful, and in a way it was. I didn’t take any pictures because the weather was bad and I have taken pictures of  that route many times. We had fun talking to … Continue reading →

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Out to Dinner

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Old Woman

Mostly I go out to dinner so I won’t have to cook and wash up. It’s nice to be waited on for a change. I care about the food, of course; I don’t like it to be terrible. With age … Continue reading →

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Island industry

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Old Woman

There’s so much I can’t blog about. There’s the endless legal dispute over Jerry’s brother’s will. I am prohibited by our lawyers from writing about it. Suddenly my children’s problems absorb my attention. I can’t write about the personal lives … Continue reading →

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A sadly neglected blog

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Old Woman

A long time has passed since I posted here. I have been blogging for 6 years — or more — I lose track. After a while I wonder whether I have anything more to say. For a time I was … Continue reading →

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The north wind doth blow

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Old Woman

We have snow. A lot of it. Everything is closed. The Seattle Airport is closed. Local schools and universities are closed. The temperature outside our house is 18 F. There is freezing rain falling on the roads south of here, … Continue reading →

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2012 Looks better

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Old Woman

Yesterday, as usual, we walked our daily circuit: down Granger Way past the llamas, where we look across Hale Passage at the white snow capped mountains which this time were splashed with orange by shafts of sun flaring through the … Continue reading →

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