Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

Over the years I seem to have a horrible track record of keeping up with this blog.  Life gets busy and in the way of blogging, the old laptop was cantankerous, and blogging from a cell phone is a bore, especially since it won't import photos very well.  I am not sure how well I will be able to get photos into this blog from this new laptop, but I am going to try.  Copy and paste does not seem to work well from the laptop into this blog, so I am not sure what to do to streamline the operation.   Anyway.  It has been since January that I have made an entry here.  I do have a draft post from late January, but I haven't gone back to read it.   Many things have happened, as they have a way of doing, over the course of a few months.  Ellen had a great first year of college.  She has now signed up to be a leader during Welcome Week at the college in August. She always did that in high school and I expect she will have a blast doing so in ...

 It is a new year here for the House of Howard; as it is all over the world.  We, any of us here, rarely make resolutions.  It is just another year to live and love.  I usually set a few goals; center my life around my faith more, write more, both on here and for my writing group, declutter some more, buy less.  That is pretty much it. We do have a few plans for the new year.  Ellen will go back to uni here in a few days; I think her first day back is the 12th. I am going to concentrate, as I said, on writing, managing my alpha gal and histamine intolerance issues, and on gardening.  Last summer I pretty much failed at gardening for several different reasons, I just felt so awful from this syndrome. This year I am on a med for it, plus I am learning how to manage it.  I am also going to garden a bit differently...  But I digress.  Ellen and I are planning on going to California to visit family over Memorial Day weekend. We are hoping to ...