Frosty Icing

My partner and I were driving home from Burlington the other day when she started to muse about the signs alongside the road, signs put up by the state. There’s the usual here-comes-your-exit signs. There’s the solar-lighted LED signs telling us there’s road construction ahead; expect little to no delay. And then there are the…

Lion’s Teeth and 56 Leaves

While walking across the yard the other day to fetch the mail, I was struck by the abundance of clover in the lawn. I’ve seen clover my entire life, but not this kind: the leaves were as big as quarters, and they made sturdy bunches mounded higher than the budding grass. This made me look…

Zealous diapers

So I’m still stuck on infants, which I blathered on about a few weeks ago. The newbies, Max and Ellie, are doing well and are scheduled to go home very soon. That means that suddenly my niece and her husband will be responsible for the swaddling done by the NICU nurses until now. Swaddling, as…

Home At Last

The truth must be told: we limped into our new home in Vermont. We were ready to be out of the car. We realized that we were going to arrive at our new house ahead of our belongings, including our beds and any sort of chair, so we stopped at a Kmart along the way…