Sassafras Mama

With T’s departure, I once-again embraced hosting friends for supper at my house.   I love planning and cooking for a dinner party on a Satu...

I’ve been in California since the 2nd of the month, to be with my family after my dad’s death and to spend some extra time with my mom as sh...

My living room furniture was already well-used when the pandemic struck.   The extra time at home hastened its demise.   T didn’t want to bu...

 I  love to set a table for dining.   I like dishes and linens (and have more of them than is reasonable or necessary in my small home); I l...

Happily, I never weary of my yard.   Sassafras House has lots of windows and from them I can see the outdoors from every room. I never tire ...

All the variegated leaf plants have joined the flowering plants for the August front porch table.   There’s a red and white tablecloth to an...

If the theme in my flowerbeds is lush and over grown (and it is), there there is no reason such a theme cannot be carried over to the front ...

The last hour of sunlight in late June and July is splendid on clear days and for a few minutes before the dusk truly settles around us, th...

Being at home has reminded me to appreciate the little knick knacks and collections that make my house a home.   I have several collections...

The first few days of shelter in place expectations found me on Spring Break and, in theory, I was on vacation.   But it was already abunda...

T has been working from home for several years and that gave me a leg up on identifying strategies that will work for me as I begin teachin...

March didn’t come in like a lion around here.   It was sunny and breezy and cold, but that’s not much of a roaring lion.   Though it’s been...

I can’t be the only person in the universe who feels like days are incredibly slow even while they are filled with big events.   Last week ...

Much to T’s dismay, the garden around Sassafras House is covered in ivy.   At various points, I do try to limit the ivy but that’s...

My kitchen is small — I joke that it’s a one-bootie kitchen — but that is largely true.   Two people at work at these counters hav...

I texted this picture to JT this morning, a reminder that his home - and rest - await him when final exams are finished.   The...

The front porch is always ready for the next season.   T he Halloween decorations have been packed away and replaced by Novemb...

My town is a near perfect place to trick-or-treat, with even sidewalks and residents who get in to the holiday.  Jack-o-lanterns a...

On Sunday morning after two days spent in New England, I took my coffee and book out to the front porch in the morning.   It was s...

The backyard at Sassafras House is lush and green, overgrown, really, but I rather like it that way.  Though I have lived away from ...