Aunt Tea's Cup; with honey and lemon

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pkmals — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:59:51 +0000

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Fall 2009

pkmals — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:35:05 +0000

This is the least creative blog title ever!

The way MSN Spaces now works is a great frustration to me, specifically the integration of my hotmail, messenger and spaces stuff. My blog life was just that, a blog life. I enjoyed it a great deal. Met so many great people. BUT…my messenger and hotmail accounts are largely for communicating with the "real life" people. While some blog friends have become real life friends, this melding of everything just drives me nuts.

The name thing…I was always Aunt Tea over here. Now I must choose, Aunt Tea for hotmail too, or real name for blog. Madning.

And now to Fall for those lovely people that have dropped by now and then…you know who you sweet people are….

I enjoyed the summer and held on to it for dear life almost all the way through October, Though I did have to embrace Fall in October with my camera! Hanging on to summer makes for a holiday season that sneaks up on you! So now I am clinging to FALL and working my way to Christmas.

I shall try to refine my internet/blogging presence in various places. Clean it up a bit, update, link things together. I’ll be back.

Thanks for coming by today!

Feel free to tell me how you are getting along these days, and where you might have moved to on the ‘net.

Spring Cleaning

pkmals — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:40:54 +0000

Are you a spring cleaner? Spring cleaning is more of a hurry-up-and-finish-winter, cleaning for me. I try to do practical things during the gray days of winter so that I can more afford to cut back and get outdooors when the weather is nice. I’m at the hurry-up stage of this now. The weather is a mix of cold and gray, and sunny and glorious. I am trying to get as much done on the cold days as I can…looking forward to days outside.

Look out drawers and closets…I’m almost out of time.

Spring’s Hope

pkmals — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:56:33 +0000

March has had plenty of rain. Chilly rain, but here and there a few mostly sunny, warmish days too. The sun is completely theraputic for me. I have been out to do a little yardwork, take a couple of walks and hunted plum blossoms and blossoming weeds with my camera. This month it feels as though life is not all gray. Everyday life that is. The routine life…because always bright is my faith in my Creator, and my gratitude for my family. The skies…G-R-A-Y, and after awhile I think the color of my blood even starts to run…gray.

Ahhhhh, but I feel the motivating springiness rising up. Yep, even a {spring} in my step.

Is it spring in your neighborhood yet? Are you out enjoying it?

Spaces changes again…

pkmals — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:42:36 +0000

I couldn’t have been gone that long. Live spaces changes again and I find my name listed in my profile. It wasn’t there before and I should have had to select something before it displayed. I of course am trying to figure other things out. I don’t care for the contacts from spaces meshing by defalut with my hotmail and messenger. I have so many many names in my contact list. My instant messenging is something I only do with a couple of friends and family. I really don’t want all of my blog contacts in my email contacts list and instant messenger list.

Surely there are editable options for toning this all down, but I find it a bit ditsurbing. And a BIG PAIN.

I have another differently styled blog on blogger, but I have been hesitant to leave spaces alltogether as I have blog friends here in spaces, and there are still things about spaces format that i rally appreciate, especially the photo albums. But we’ll see.

Tips anyone?

How are y’all doing with spaces? Do you still like it here? Do you still like hanging out in blogland? This is me…pondering, pondering.

A Year Ends

pkmals — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:25:09 +0000

As much as I enjoy the warmth of the Christmas season, I’m ready to say good bye to it. Just a bit of weariness. The day after Christmas a cold set in and I have been obsessed with sleep! And…my washing machine is dead in the water again. It’s possible that the days of reliable Sears appliances, and worthwhile protection plans, are a thing of the past. Last year our whole machine was rebuilt part by part, appointment by appointment. It took from September 22 to November 9th. They considered that one repair call, so not eligible for replacement. Every part, not kidding, except for the shell was replaced. Now it’s dead again. So starting Tuesday we see what happens. So not happy about this lemon of a machine and the coming trips to the laundromat.

So in the midst of laundry troubles and post holiday sleeping, I am slowly doing the traditional, look back, to get my looking forward perspective for a new year.

How was your holiday season this year?

How do you crack an egg?

pkmals — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:16:07 +0000

How do you crack your {raw} eggs?

Do you tap-tap-tap intil it cracks?

Or do you give it one firm, perfect tap?

{I might have an opinion on egg cracking.}

Shopping!

pkmals — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:22:51 +0000

Sunday my daughter and I popped into a little shop on our way back to the car. We had been to an outdoor art event and were both without our wallets. OR…I would have come home with at least one of the little cup and saucers I found.

The cup and saucers pictured below were only about three inches tall. Sooooo cute. I’m sure they would make fabulous additions to staged photographs, and tablescapes. The shop owners let me take photos in the store once I assured them that I was not a spy for another shop. So many colorful things there longing to be adopted.

(click on album link below to see full size)

http://sc1.sclive.net/13.0.1392.0724/Web/Parts/PhotoAlbum/script/slideshow.swf

Windows Live Spaces

Missed photo OP

pkmals — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:24:08 +0000

I had been eyeing a crabapple tree by the side of the road for a couple of weeks. There was a hint of fall in the leaves, and it was FULL of crab apples. Surely the subject of a few charming photos. But… I kept forgetting to walk up the street with my camera. (this was a daily drive-by event) Yesterday I made it up there only to find that there were only about 5 apples left IN the tree and being that the tree was on a slope, it was really too hard to get good photos of those remaining.

I did find it strangely satisfying to squish the crab apples under my feet.

Summer sweet and summer loss

pkmals — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:11:42 +0000

With strangely extended cold weather, this was a summer that seemed would never really arrive. Now that the fourth has come and gone it feels like summer is really here and that it will too soon fade. My flowers and veggies are not their glorious selves yet. It’s been a slow growth year and the bugs are eating my zinnias as fast as they grow it seems.

With the sweet warmth of summer our family is also adjusting to loss. My brother in law died this June and he was truly one of the sweet things of summer. Many a pool side chat and photo shoot shared with him over the years. He was a sweet uncle to my kids. This summer 6 weeks after learning that he was going to leave us, he was gone. We thought we would have more time and more photos. Friends, remember to take photos of your loved ones. You will always wish for more.

Summer is still sweet. We have hosted family, entertained younger cousins with roasted marshmallows, thrown water balloons and driveway fireworks. We’ve eaten ice cream and watermelon, suffered in triple digits and savored the blue skies (when they are free of smoke). We still have summer to enjoy and I aim to appreciate every day of it.

This summer is a season of God’s faithfulness. We see His comfort and grace. We know His mercy and provision, and for awhile, we will walk in it in our barefeet.