Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Feeding the Spirit

  • Five Things on Friday

    1. I've captured Belle leaping three days in a row now. All I had to do was write about how I kept getting distracted at the last minute, and BOOM! now I stay focused. It took about fifty years, but I've finally figured out how to manipulate myself. How do you trick, er, train yourself?…

  • Monday becomes Tuesday becomes…

    I started this post yesterday, then suddenly yesterday was today. Do your days blur together like that? Mine have a lot lately. I think it's because I work weekends and workdays, plus there was the 4th of July holiday in the middle of a week, and now I'm squeezing real estate school into an already…

  • Five Things on Friday

    1.   We stopped by the little pond on our walk this morning. I noticed that when the puppies waded in and drank from pond, drops of reflected sunshine splattered across the surface. It was magical!   2. I did it. I registered for Real Estate School today. I scheduled the classes (which begin next…

  • Wild Turkey and other sweet!s

    Belle and Max dashed off in the direction of a dry pond this morning on our walk, triggering a loud commotion as a mama wild turkey flew for the safety of a tree on the other end, squawking the whole way. Half a dozen small turkey-ettes followed her…squeaking, more than squawking. Of course, it could…

  • Five Things on…Saturday

       1.   Do any of you still have your landlines? I've been so tempted to cancel ours…but then I remember the agonizing two months we lived without it when we first moved into this house in the country, and how our cell phones only worked outside, up the hill a little bit. How I…

  • Remembering Rena

    Once upon a time, I was an elementary school librarian. Well, technically an aide, barely making minimum wage and working 50+ hours a week …but essentially I ran the library and absolutely loved it. If I had the time and money to go back to school, that's what I would be if I ever grow…

  • The Simple Things are the Sweetest

    Dawn is waking to rain and thunder this morning. She must have pulled the covers back over her head because the Hollow is still dark outside my window, except for occasional flashes of lightning. On a normal morning, the puppies and I would already be out on the dirt road, saying hello to the new…

  • Sons, Sunday mornings, and other sweet!s

    I'm not proud to admit this, but I missed church this morning because of the rain.  Right about the time Daniel and I were going to head out the door (Tom was still snoozing!) – already running late because we had to let the terrified dogs into the laundry room – the break in the…

  • Raindrops and Photo Shoots

    Saturday morning I woke to the sound of rain. Lots and lots of rain. I staggered to my computer and pulled up radar of our area. A huge green and yellow blob was blinking its way straight for us. A blessing for sure in this time of drought, two days in a row of serious…

  • Five Things from La-La Land

    Linking with A Rural Journal's Random 5 Friday    1.    This card, full of words of love and encouragement and inspiration, waited for me in the mailbox earlier this week, a precious gift from my friend Rae.  How could I not share them with you, because the words are true for all of us,…