Two of my favourite sounds:

-someone giggling or laughing out loud over the book they're engrossed in

-the sound of shears cutting fabric laid out on a table or the floor

Our house when it was still a school. At least we think that's the case. There isn't much different about our current house. Makes us realize why the windows are so drafty--they're 70 years old. We saw this photo on a little placard at the local elementary school as part of a display of schools in the area. This year another elementary school is being combined with the first and they took down the photo. We were gutted as we'd not thought to take a picture of the photo. (We meet for church in the school.) What a gift to hear my Mom casually say that she'd taken a picture of it. We don't have the fence around the property or the bell in the tower although the tower is still there and one or two metal fence posts got left behind. The great big maple behind the house is actually two maples. One is left to us, the second having fallen down the day before we took possession.

It's fun to look at this piece of history. Odd though to realize the connection we have with what feels completely disconnected from us.


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The first fire in our new woodstove. (New is such a loosely worded term in this case since we've had it for over a year and a half, first just inches into the front door since it came home on the back of the pickup during a snowstorm, but at 400 lbs Pieman and I could only slide it so far, then sitting in our cloakroom. Then it was installed with the chimney reaching through the ceiling into the attic. And there it sat. For a looong time. Now it has been fully installed and certified for insurance purposes. Finally a fire. It's going to be a cozy winter!


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There's a hole in my roof, dear Liza, dear Liza, there's a hole in my roof, dear Liza, a hole.

Well fix it, dear Pieman, dear Pieman, dear Pieman, well fix it, dear Pieman, dear Pieman, fix it.

But how should I fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza, but how should I fix it, dear Liza, fix it?

With a chimney, dear Pieman, dear Pieman, dear Pieman, with a chimney, dear Pieman, dear Pieman for the woodstove.


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