Angel Wheeler

simple pleasures

  • De-Stressing

    Stress.  We all have it.  It attacks us at different times and for different reasons.  I’ve been feeling a tad bit overwhelmed lately.  When I stop to think about my life, I realize that in the last 3 weeks I have buried my dad and have (am presently) moving to a new house, while not… Read more

  • Kindred Spirits

    Tonight I am dragging in after a wonderful visit with my old friend Erin, not old in terms of years of age, but old in regards to years of friendship.  I hope you know the kind of friend; no matter the distance of time or miles that separates, we seem to begin right where we left off.  Even… Read more

  • 10 Photos that make me smile

    1.  This is my niece Ashy holding her brother.  He skinned his forehead earlier that day.  That bruise might make him look tough if only he didn’t have a bow in his hair. 2.  This is me about 30 years ago.  My dad, whom we buried a week ago today, commented on this photo:  “when i think… Read more

  • Warning: Roller Skating May Lead to Gullible Bones

    This is a great song.  I first heard it at a teacher training about 4 years ago for incorporating music in the classroom, and I bought it as soon as I got home.  It’s by a girl named Melanie, whose voice is a little Janis Joplin”ish”.   That makes me love it even more.   Me and my niece Ash laced up… Read more

  • Soap #2–The Old and Curmudgeonly: Sleeping Through the Storm

    My little town got 8.5 inches of snow Tuesday night, and they cancelled school.  And as an added bonus, we don’t have to start school until 10:00 this morning.  Yippee Skippee!!  Snow days don’t come around often, and I try to enjoy them.  I spend my day in  lazy gear, reading, writing, facebooking, napping.   My husband on the… Read more

  • Wabi Sabi

    Yesterday I wrote about an avocado green canister that is banged up, rusted, and just plain ugly, but beautiful despite it’s imperfections.  Rather than the reactions I was expecting to receive, several folks said they loved that canister.  I’m wondering if this green canister falls under the term Wabi Sabi.  That word in itself is just fabulous… Read more

  • The Memory of a Sound

    I recently purchased this magazine. I say recently, but it was way back in 2010. I have no idea why I would purchase a magazine called Do it yourself, since I don’t do anything myself.  There must have been something that caught my eye on the cover, but now…..who knows? This is one of those… Read more

  • Sugar….bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, ah, Honey, Honey

    I’ve discovered something that I want to share. It has to do with the Bible. And honey. “If you find honey, eat just enough–too much of it, and you will vomit”. Proverbs 25:16 NIV This happened to me once, and it almost happened again last night.  I love honey, but eat just one teaspoonful too… Read more

  • My Tree Harbor

    There is a mimosa tree and an evergreen tree growing in the yard at our new place.  They are both young sprouts right now, but I hope they grow big and strong and formidable.  I love the mimosa tree, never tried the drink, but I adore the fuzzy, pink flowers that bloom and the rattle of the… Read more

  • Here chicky, chicky, chicky

    It’s cold today.   The sky is dressed in a blanket of gray clouds.   The trees have long been stripped of their flashy wardrobe.   They look bleak against the gray of the sky.  But there is a sense of beauty in a bare tree.  A glimmer of hope for the coming spring.  The smell of snow hangs thick in… Read more