The Latest here at the Cottage

I apologize for the radio silence for the last 2 months. 😏 Life has been really crazy for me. It’s been difficult adjusting to a new schedule. It is rough sometimes, trying to get your equilibrium. As strange as that sounds, having the shop open 1 day a week, has been a complete rearrangement of my schedule and routine. So writing the blog/newsletter kind of fell thru the cracks. Sorry. I hope I haven’t lost y’all in the process. But it is starting to come together, slowly. We have had to make some major adjustments to our plans. The price...

Hello Spring…………….. I guess. For us it has been very weird. And I hear it’s like that in many other places as well. Cold one day and hot the next. Freak storms and wind, wind, and more wind for months now. :( It’s making it pretty hard to do anything outside. We are trying to find our equilibrium with our new schedule of only being open on Saturdays. Changing rhythms is always hard and we’ve had a bunch of interruptions and delays. Hoping that next week settles into a smoother flow. I have to say, in spite of our misgivings...

And just like that February is gone ! What a month it was ! This year isn’t turning out to be much better than the last. I apologize for skipping the month of February all together, time just got away from me and before I knew it, that short month was over. As most of you know (I’m pretty sure), we here in Texas have had a terrible weather event, especially in south Texas. We just aren’t prepared for single digit temperatures for 6 days and nights. It was a shocking experience for which we were not prepared. We should...

Happy New Year everyone! I sincerely hope that y’all had a nice holiday season and are all healthy and at peace. This past year has been one that we never expected to experience in our lifetime. It’s been a rough and rocky year. I’m hoping that y’all came thru it with only a few minor scars. We have been very blessed indeed and are very grateful for it. We don’t know what to expect in this new year, but we are hopeful that it will be much better than the last. New seems to always be better…………right? Well, sometimes, but...

I purposely delayed sending this month’s blog/newsletter because of Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I know your inboxes have been flooded with sales advertisements, mine too. I decided to wait until it settled down a bit so this one didn’t get lost in the shuffle. LOL. 😜 We enjoyed our very quiet and low key Thanksgiving this year, the first year with just the 2 of us. It was different! Sad in a melancholy way, we really missed our family. But as we were eating in relative silence, Christer looked at me and said quietly; “no drama”. I about fell off the...