by Rain Trueax     As  so many have said about 2020, I am saying the same thing about October. which ends today with Halloween. I've w...

Experimenting to find out how little I need to change to dramatically improve the useage of my home now that it is just for me. I considered...

  by Rain Trueax   I am in a nostalgic mood and hence thought I'd share here some music from way back in my life-- as in when I was born...

Monday, October 19, 2020 My most prominent emotion is Relief : On day 12 of being a widow, I am mostly exercising my freedom in converting t...

  by Rain Trueax This was not an easy week. I don't have anything to share here beyond what I wrote last week as to our feeling of loss....

  by Diane Up Date #1 for my transition to Widowhood   I am consumed sending out invitations for Fisherman Hubby's  zoom remembrance and...

 by Rain Trueax Oregon Coast at Yachats There are things that a person just does not know how to write. Losses are among the hardest of thos...

FIRST COMFORT FEAST Can a spirit ride on a song bird's wing? Looking through the glass as we dine. Then flying towards the dry bird bat...

 I love our home especially now.  With Fisherman Hubby's neuromuscular decline, a two story house with stairs would be awful. Our rooms ...

  by Rain Trueax   September was a tough month for me with the disastrous fires in my home state. Some of my favorite Cascade Mountain areas...

Friday, October 2 My infection is hardly noticeable but must continue taking the anti-biotic.  I have more pep than I expected. I am feeling...

A selfie taken by one granddaughter of us and her sister Monday, September 28 I thought surely I could do Yom Kippur fast and a virtual serv...

  by Rain Trueax   Something that isn't often discussed or at least I haven't come across it is how our body's ability to use fo...

  Wednesday, September 22 In the afternoon before the wind and rain hit us, a granddaughter and her boy friend joined me to paint in the gar...

Fisherman Hubby so happy to be outdoors after the smoke cleared. I was very anxious about him wanting to ride his lawn mower but he did well...

  by Rain Trueax This is a bonus post due to something going on in the political world. That means it's one of my rare political posts. ...

  by Rain Trueax Well, it's come around again-- our anniversary. This time it happens on a Saturday, which was the same 56 years ago. I ...

  Saturday, September 12, I added a hard to see turtle  because sometimes they are hard to spot Monday, September 14 I am getting joy arrang...

  by Rain Trueax If the United States, we didn't have enough pain thrust onto us, fires have become a new attack on the West Coast. We g...

  Thursday,  September 10, I looked at my yet to be finished memory painting started last February in Hawaii. I am just getting ready to dig...