Pleasant View Schoolhouse

The windowsill by the woodstove becomes my temporary sewing table.

Molly flew home today, and left her roses behind. I took them to the studio to paint.

My head is still spinning a little from this weekend. First, Thanksgiving dinner for thirty-one. Then houseguests started to roll into town...

Welcome to the Farm. Tia's parents joined us for Thanksgiving this year. Meeting Daisy's goats. Wait...

Clara and I spent much of the day on our hands and knees scrubbing the stone house floors--a sign that most of the major renovating wor...

Most of this super-soft sweater has gone for other projects--but the top of it makes the coziest, most beautifully shaped little capelet...

Clara and I have managed to reupholster the couch to this point--it's only lacking the bottom fabric and the fronts of the arms. Me...

Honeysuckle in November, who knew?

Remember back in August when we had to take the kitchen floors in the stone house  all the way back to the joists? They stayed like tha...

This is made from two layers of medium-weight jersey, stenciled with the Alabama Chanin "Magdalena" stencil, and then each sha...

We have a large and lovely woodpile all ready to go . . . and we're still running the air-conditioner. 

Whew. This is just a busy, busy season. Travel, wedding, giant party, whole-house renovation, work. My idea is that all of it will be ...

It was that time last weekend--my father in law's birthday. And this was a big one. Eighty. We kept it on the quiet side, si...

Today I borrowed the neighbor's power-washer and started in on the front deck. To my knowledge, it's never been washed in thirt...

The living room is painted! Still waiting on the new slab of stone that will be the mantel above the gorgeous fireplace. The smal...

Clara and Daisy and I went to New York this weekend to meet up with our kids there--it used to be the boys, but now it's Giles and ...

Foliage looks good anywhere.

Afternoon light; time to cook dinner.