Five years ago, my son’s dog Scully was at dog camp in Pennsylvania. (Scully lives in New York.) She’s the one on the left on hind legs. You’d never know this dog had had hip surgery. Five years later, Scully is still getting around. She hikes all over the Northeast and can go several miles at a time. Probably more than I can.

One of my granddaughters is getting married soon. We recently had a shower for her. One of her presents was wrapped in a table cloth. She is a designer and immediately created a lovely gown with the wrapping.

I never would have guessed that having multiple watches would create a problem. The more the merrier, right? Not entirely. One of my watches is of the automatic mechanical variety. If I don’t wear it for a few days, it stops. And this is apparently a bad thing to do. As a result, I got a new toy: an automatic watch winder. So on days I decide to wear my Timex or Casio, the Seiko can turn in circles periodically throughout the day and keep running.

Have you noticed that your favorite apps change over time? When I first got on social media, I followed Facebook closely. I still do, but I have a love/hate relationship with it. Too much advertising, and I can’t keep posts coming in chronological order. For a while, I loved Flipboard. The mix of news and pictures was like a favorite magazine. Now, I rarely look at it. (But it’s still pretty.” Then came Pinterest–fun, but a time suck. And Instagram. And now there are so many it is hard to keep up. Though I have avoided Tik-Tok so far. What’s

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This Christmas I made aprons for all the ladies in the family (including the littlest one.) One of the ladies’ husbands (not pictured) remarked, “To give my wife an apron is like giving a blind man a telescope!” I take it she doesn’t cook much.  Each apron has a bar towel on the front so you can wipe your hands as you go. I ended up sewing twenty-two. It is kind-of habit forming, once you get started.  One of my granddaughters said I should sell them on Etsy. I told her, “You do it. I’ll watch.” I’ll have to choose something

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I always find it hard to stay in touch with people during the winter. We go out less. Do less. With cold, short days, I tend to want to hibernate, or at least stay home where it’s warm. But I’m looking over my calendar and the forecast and my china and thinking I might have a tea party. Something to reconnect with friends and get me through these last tedious weeks of winter! How do you stay connected during the winter months?

I recently purchased new prescription lenses with rose-colored wire-rimmed frames. Every time I get new glasses, my self-image changes. For more on this theme, see here. Are there accessories that change your self-image?

About a year ago, we received some free plastic cups from a realtor who works in our neighborhood. I never really looked at the cups until last week, when I read this one. “I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.” After the cold spell we endured just before Christmas, this made me laugh. I might have said a thing or two I shouldn’t have. What about winter makes you laugh?

I recently looked up the spelling of a word. WikiDiff was the first thing that popped up. And this is what I learned: “Driveable” is “capable of being driven.” “Drivable” is “capable of being driven.” Good to know. But this doesn’t help me pick which version to use.