Where there's a will there just might be way.

 I have enjoyed doing the blog all these years but it's getting harder and harder to handle the type on the computer and I was thinking I was going to have to give it up. But I have that will and I might have found that way.

 

 Last summer I learned how to use the voice feature on my phone to send texts and emails and because I couldn't see the letters on the phone.   It worked great. So I was wishing that there was some way I could talk to my computer to do my blog and I think I found it. So today I'm "talking" my post to my phone and sending it to me in an email and then I can cut and paste it from the email to the blog. The only problem is the voice feature doesn't always get some words right so I'm hoping all of you will be a little forgiving if there are more errors doing it this way.  When   I was just out of high school I worked for a law firm and one of my jobs was transcribing from a Dictaphone.  When I said Dictaphone to my phone it came up "dick to phone."

 

 I'm trying to get as many hours as I can  at the new house getting all the little touches done that I love done before we actually  move in. My main goal  is to  add as much color and as much light as I possibly can to my  new house. I have also ordered several storage units to help with the problem of space and getting  room for all my kitchen stuff  and this included a island cart and an extra pantry.  They are here and I'm trying to paint them both unassembled at the same time. It is a challenge to keep all the pieces separated and I'm hoping when I start to put them together that I end up with what I wanted.  The cart has 8 pages of instructions.

 

We went to see Tom Hanks in Mister Rogers and I really enjoyed it.   Especially the little song about the neighborhood. Now when I'm at the house and looking out the window I'm thinking that it's a lovely day in "my" neighborhood. I never felt I had a neighborhood at the farm

Always a treat when I'm on Pinterest and see a piece of mine...  This is a very old piece and I had forgotten about it... Thinking it would make a nice valentine..

 

 

We had 10" of snow Friday and 3" more yesterday  DH spent the rest of the day getting the snow off the roofs of the chicken house, gazebo, pump house and the wood shed....all old structures we'd hate to lose to heavy wet snow. ...then we pumped out the cellar... Poor Morris is struggling to get through this deep snow with his little short legs.  I am dying to get out and walk and so sick of being inside...but I want the snow to go off slowly as well... Any more my only physical exercise is cooking... Doing the pork loin with apples today with a Calvados cream sauce and serving with salad and roasted beets. Maybe I will do some laps at the garden store and fondle packages of seeds.

 

Neighbor's pigs continue to be  a major problem.  DH chased them home this morning before he left and locked the gate...but they just returned and busted through the fence.  We are at our wit's end with them...

 

Had the loveliest surprise recently... I became reconnected with a special friend whom I had thought I had lost forever. She is much younger and our lives are very different but quite by accident our paths crossed years ago and she became  a dear friend.  At that time she was only working part time and we often got together and made jewelry... But then she got another job and was working full time AND part time and to top that she fell in love....  But she's married now and her life is settled and we've set a date to reconnect.  She was around a lot during the lambing days... One of the most positive and talented people I know...