Dear Liza,
We are having lots of rain here in Portland, so I imagine the evening’s Halloween activities will be mostly inside. It is the beginning of “Doing things inside” season, after all.
Cold outside, good food inside. Yummy salmon quiche!
Grey outside, bright inside.
And we just keep getting up, cooking, making stuff, reading, learning and taking care of each other … whatever the season.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza,
You have started back to school there in Denmark, and your cousins (and all the other kids) have, too. Fall is here for certain. All the signs say so.
The tiny library at Sunnyside School is full of older books taken off the shelves to make room for the new ones.
The leaves are changing all over the place.
Apples and pears are being offered right off the tree (or sidewalk) by overwhelmed home owners.
Sunflowers are growing up to the second floor windows…
And homemade signs are sprouting up, proclaiming faith in the democratic process.
Ready or not, here comes Fall!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza,
A lot has happened since I wrote to you in August! You and your family have moved to Horsens, Denmark, and are discovering wonderful things to do there.
I have started learning Danish on Duolingo to get ready for our visit.
I had surgery on my ear to remove a skin cancer, and then a skin graft to put me back together. I am healing nicely.
Summer has ended and Fall has begun, with all the gardening that entails and beauty it brings.
I have planted some Hairy Vetch (a real thing) as a winter cover crop for my garden patch. It should put some nitrogen back in the soil and give it a nice green mulch come Spring.
I wrote a story about imaginary Liza and imaginary Grandma Judy, called “International Adventure Grandma”.
It has maps and secrets codes and I really enjoyed writing it! It is currently being edited by a trusted friend and I promise to bring a real hold-in-your-hand copy when I come visit in the Spring.
I expect to get back to writing this blog regularly, and hope you will come along and see what I’m up to.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 