Meet Pumpkin One of 2025

The fall rituals that I like to follow, this year are pressed flat by the depression episode I am struggling to manage. 

As the deal with it best I can goes, turning a negative into a positive works. Thus, the autumn pumpkin hunt for a country roadside stand also includes: Just buy a pumpkin! So I have. I may also buy from a roadside stand, if I have the energy to do that. 

Pie Pumpkin #1 2025

Catch Up On a Saturday

Moon at 95% Waxing Gibbous
Behind the clouds 9:58 PM EDT
5 September 2025

What’s been going on?

Stuff mostly.

A recent purchase of an over the door rack is the reason I’m rearranging my storage areas. The galley kitchen is too small to store can goods that close to an oven. Thus, out of the bottom cabinet and on the pantry shelves they go. 

The door rack is where spices, cereal, teas and light things will be placed.

That frees up overhead cabinet space for soup bowls and such. So now, instead of moving left to right, I can twirl around to get my favorite little fruit bowl. Also, the bottom cabinet now provides pans a new home that’s off the stove and counters. 

The whole process highlights for me how very important good organization is to having a healthy interior environment. 

A word about low fat foods. 

Low-fat cottage cheese is horrible! With my limited sense of taste, due to covid 2022 booster, I treasure the few flavor levels I can enjoy. I dislike even more the flavors that are horrid. 

I feel the same about most low-fat foods as well as light beer. 

What else? Oh, Instagram has become the babysitter to my bored-self. I spend too much time crying and laughing as I scroll through a tremendous variety of video shorts. 

Let me just say that bravado is in vogue. It can be healing, but too much can cause you tell feel a lot of it is hokey. 

Art. Being busy with moving things around, I’ve been falling asleep for some righteously good naps instead of painting. Now that I’ve finally repotted the pothos and English ivy, the table can be clear for creative endeavors. 

How is your September going?

Day 247 of Week 36 August 2025

In a philosophy class, early 1990s, the instructor is explaining the time line of life in philosophically, step by step out into the universe. The end thought, the end question left to us is what is there beyond, beyond life, the universe?

The air in the room is dead silence until a voice in the far back corner provides the answer:

“New Jersey”

That answer, having spent the majority of my teen years in New Jersey, I felt in my bones to be true. I wasn’t trying to make a joke. But the class laughed and do did I. 

In a way, it is funny. In a bigger way, it is a true answer because, I believe, the proverbial, out there, can be wherever a here may be for us. 

More than any age decade of experience, I feel that our teenage years carry the strongest vibe of being our home-land. Other stages may be as nostalgic, as well loved but not in the same way as our transition out of childhood into adulthood. Ten years is a long time.

Have a Wonderful Weekend 

wherever your here is

Change your wall decor

Browse bird statues online

Read about philosophy

Shop for a soap dispenser

Bake bread

Embroider a favorite word

Take photos of sidewalks

Wind
Watercolor sketch