I love our little house's new colors, @aviday.bsky.social ! Before, it was a drabby brown & beige, now a cheerful mint green and peach! 🏡

More pics of my office!🥰

My newly organized home office! I worked two days reorganizing my yarns, cleaning out the closet, and decluttering my desk. Thank you @aviday.bsky.social for mounting my monitor on the wall & moving furniture around for me! Love my #maryengelbreit mouse pad and calendar book! More pics in next post.

My new yarn storage, an antique cabinet so I can see all (or most) of my yarns.

#StarsOverClearLake such a lovely book, couldn't put it down!! Thank you for another wonderful book, @lorettaellsworth.bsky.social !! I enjoyed it as much as #TheFrenchWinemakersDaughter. Love these stories SO MUCH!!!❣️

May Day 2015
Bille Park
Paradise, CA

Years later,I married my best friend in a gazebo surrounded by tall pines, family, and friends. Today, we celebrate 10 years of marriage. We'll be plant shopping, getting flowers and plants for our yard and this time we'lI have our grandbaby with us- and would you believe it? Her name is May!🦋💐🐸🌸🌼🌲

Happy May Day! My favorite day of the year ever since I was little and my teachers taught us what May Day is. I'd take my handmade paper basket of paper flowers to my neighbor's front doorstep, and not even kidding-her name was May- and hide behind the tree in her yard to watch her answer her door.

I read The French Winemaker's Daughter by Loretta Ellsworth yesterday- yes, I finished it in one day because I couldn't put it down! It's so good!! #thefrenchwinemakersdaughter

Thankful for my 15ft 1963 Kencraft named for my grandmother, Ethel Myrtle, who gave me the love of camping and taught me the art of homemaking a travel trailer! This vintage trailer came with a license plate that begins with EM followed by numbers, it was meant to be! Our cottage on wheels🍒

I lost my sampler I got 1st place at the California State Fair on in the Camp Fire (Paradise, CA 2018) and all my other x-stitched pieces. After getting settled in PDX I was determined to start a new sampler (one I had already begun but also lost) and finally got it framed last November.🪡

Inside and outside my cottage🏡

Received a letter from OHSU yesterday informing us of the massive NIH cuts in research. REALLY hoping I don't lose my job. Magats don't care about the magnitude of devastation this will cause! Feels like a giant FU to our scientists' dedication to finding cures so people can live and thrive! 💔

A few of the things that I've been turning to for comfort in these uncertain times...
My dogs, my husband, candy, my knitting, and Mary Engelbreit activities (puzzles and paint-by-number sets)