There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
Ruth Stout
I’m going to have to give this a lot of thought because at the moment, I’m not liking winter all that much! Now, maybe if I lived in the country rather in the middle of a subdivision, I might look at things differently.

I guess I just never thought about it this way…
“A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence- serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
Sophia Loren
*Sophia Loren’s Recipes and Memories

“If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food. But I’d choose sex over nearly everything else.”
Helen Gurley Brown
Anyone want to add anything to that??
*Sex and the Single Girl

If you like quotes, you just have to check out advice from… Gorm. All you do is point Gorm in the direction that you are most interested in and he will provide you with advice on the topic. A lot of the time, it doesn’t make a bit of sense but then as if by luck… he will come up with something dead on!
Another one of those sites when you really don’t feel like working!

“Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don’t have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.” -Greg Anderson
It does absolutely no good to merely sit and wish that something wonderful would happen to you. Half the fun is making it happen. And just in case you are wondering… it’s never too late. The book that I highlighted today is actually on my shelf. I originally bought it because I thought that it would be a fun read, but …read more

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don’t blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.”
Charles Dickens
I know that this passage comes from Dombey and Son, but how …read more

Life – It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
So, it is extremely important to fill in those inbetween years with as much as possible. That means every day should be an adventure! When you think about it, all of those wasted days can’t be relived, so it is important to get up and plan your day. Me, I think I will go and get dressed now. There is a world out there. Must go exploring
*Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s …read more

“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.”
– John Cassavetes
I’m really creative when it comes to shopping… does that count?? So, what are you really creative about? I think I need to add a few things to my list!! I once thought of taking up painting, but I really don’t think that I have the patience! I would want to finish it in one afternoon so that I could move on to the next.
I don’t think that trait is very good for a painter.

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe.”
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Lawrence lived a few miles from my mom in a little town called Lakefield and she definitely practiced what she preached! If anyone had a mind of her own, it would definitely be Margaret. I will have to ask my mom for a few stories to share!

The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have to admit that I think that I’m a lot wiser than I was… lets say… in my twenties. It’s my blog, I can say things like that! And yes, I’m thinking about that pot of coffee that is probably still warm downstairs. Kicking the habit is a lot harder that I expected it to be. Maybe it was that Pumpkin Spice Latte that I had at “Second Cup” on Saturday. Yes, I fell off the wagon!