IN OUR OWN BACKYARD
By the light of the full moon
There’s nothing quite like a full moon in February. By that time, the endless days of cloudy, snow-filled days and nights have given way to bright, clear days and star-filled nights, with several feet of snow covering the ground to reflect the light.March 04, 2010
It’s the bitter truth 
February 26, 2010
There’s a reason they call it the ‘boob tube’
It’s crazy how an overly long February can turn even the most resistant of us into mid-winter television junkies.
February 19, 2010
It’s a doggone shame
I have to say that I am absolutely STEAMED over the choice of MVP on Super Bowl Sunday. I mean, really – do you give credit to the one who has the most sex appeal, or do you reward the one who actually does all the work? What in the world are things coming to?
February 12, 2010
Winter’s woes bring cold comfort to the soul
There has been a rather large chunk of frozen snow wedged under the wheel well of the left front tire on my car for the past two weeks, and it’s been driving me crazy.
February 04, 2010
Girls will be girls
Maia Sophia..... The sound of that name just sort of trickles off the tongue like a ripple of birdsong…a soft verse of Haiku…or the closing notes of a Debussy sonata, and it charmed me from the very first time I heard it.
January 22, 2010
Power to the squirrels!
I was meeting with a couple of colleagues in our office conference room Monday morning when we heard a giant POP, followed instantaneously by a high-pitched scream, before the room was plunged into semi-darkness.
January 14, 2010
There’s no such thing as bad weather
Something down deep inside me told me I should instinctively have known better than to go out in the cold quite so ill prepared. After all, my dad, who trained with the ski troops as part of the Army’s legendary Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, had taught me a thing or two about cold weather survival….
January 07, 2010
Backyard…It’s been a very ‘Spidey’ Christmas
My tailbone is sore from going off the steep end of the sliding hill.
By Wendy Johnson , December 25, 2009
In our own Backyard: "Tree tension" comes 'round at Christmas
“Oh, Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely are thy branches” – as long as there aren’t too many of them….
By Wendy Johnson , December 16, 2009
Love comes full circle
Princess was our “love child,” coming into our lives unexpectedly – and leaving again in much the same way.
December 10, 2009
Ring those bells!
By Wendy Johnson , December 04, 2009
In our own backyard….Who forgot to tell the dog?
Even in the pitch black of early morning, I knew just when the big yellow Lab climbed out of his bed and padded across our bedroom floor.
By Wendy Johnson , November 05, 2009
Halloween’s all about the fright factor
Carving pumpkins is an art – an art that not everyone is cut out for. When my kids were little, I’d buy pumpkins and we’d all sit through a marathon carving session, first “decapitating” them, pulling out the “guts,” and carving faces on them.
By Wendy Johnson , October 30, 2009
Hurry up!
It seems mankind has been in a hurry ever since the invention of minute rice and instant oatmeal....
By Wendy Johnson , October 23, 2009
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