Long Hollow

Where seeds of thought have room to grow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Tidbits

  • Long Hollow Updates and my Friday Favorite Photo

    I watched her glide from one end of the hollow to the other, riding the gusty wind currents like a surfer rides a wave, shifting ever so slightly to stay in the drift. She went all the way from my left to my far right without a single flap of her wings. Beautiful. I don't…

  • Not again! Dang dogs (and birds!) and “Johnny Baby” revisited

    I knew it. I could see it on their faces yesterday when we tried to get them into the van.  Yep, it's true. They love Ginger more than me. Or at least Ginger's yard. Or dogs. Or driveway. Something up there is irresistible to my dogs – worth the trek through the valley and up…

  • Nests, Webs, and Blue Drumsticks

    These arrived on our doorstep a few days ago… I have no idea who sent them. Tom says it wasn't him … he thought I ordered them for myself. I swear when I said "will someone send me some blue drumsticks?" I never expected anyone to actually do it! From now on, I know to…

  • Cool TV and other Random Thursday Thoughts

    I remember when MTV first aired. (That's how old I am.) I would just watch and watch and watch, one music video after another, mesmerized. Even when I was forced to leave the room for some reason – to eat or sleep or take a potty break, for instance- I would keep it on just…

  • A Nose Update, No Sleep, and other Thursday Tidbits

    The Nose I can't imagine – don't want to imagine – how it feels to have big chunks of plastic shoved up your nose filling up the entire space so that you need to breathe through your mouth but your throat is in red, raw agony from the trach tube shoved down it a week…

  • Pink Skies, Random Thoughts

    Pink clouds, pink skies have greeted my ascension to the dirt road the past two mornings … a nice change from the woolen grays and mist that have been waiting up there for me lately. I've noticed that a pink sky or one filled with clouds that look dipped in pink-orange paint lighten my heart…

  • No Red Moonbeams for Me … A Long Hollow Update

    "It's starting to feel more like Christmas to me. The temps are staying low, there's the smell of wood smoke in the air, my tree is up and decorated, cards are trickling in, and TG is home." I wrote this several days ago – just one of many posts that wither on the vine because…

  • Timing – my Friday Favorites

    I hoped to put my morning walk off until later, when the sun was higher (better light, better photos) and I had finished my work-out (the longer I put it off, the less likely I am to do it! It's better to catch myself before I'm fully awake!) But Belle spotted me through the window;…

  • It’s Monday – can you feel it, too?

    I'm not going to make any excuses for this draggy, Monday-blah feeling I have. It's my own fault. I know it. I'm trying to do too much, but I have no regrets, despite the lack of sleep, and I refuse to cut anything out. Yet. So this is a Monday post – kind of a…

  • Truths

    I've been busy all afternoon, taming the piles of laundry and bills that were taking over the house. I'd much rather have spent the afternoon writing or watching movies with the kids or taking the dogs for a walk, but even procrastinators have limits of what they can ignore. Tom is laid out flat on our…