Category: Making it home
Cozy, friendly, orderly, fun, inspiring. That’s what I want when I walk in the door.
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Hanging out the laundry to dry in the hot sun. That’s a thing a retired woman has time to do. And savor. String out the line, drape the sheets, clip on the wooden clothespins. Listen to the cheeping nuthatches scolding that you’ve interrupted their breakfast. Imagine yourself as a part of a long long line…
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Kate’s been gone a while. Years. Today, while tidying the electronic desktop, I stumbled on several images that made me smile. Kate loved investigating a lower kitchen cupboard during late-night wanderings. The open cupboard door next morning always revealed her secret. This particular morning was the beginning of a gut-the-first-floor house remodel. We’d set up…
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Sometimes a day’s task list gets a bit long and you find yourself emptying the compost at 9:30 p.m. or so. Get out the flashlight, grab the little metal bucket, go outside to the bin tucked along a path of overhanging bamboo. In the flashlight stream the bamboo leaves are so green, bright and sharp-shaped…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 