All Things Home and Family
In the end, May has been a quick exchange of quiet spring to lush June-like green and glory. Now we're mowing the grass every few days. Trees are leafed out. And the patio flowers planted. The church calendar was too full, but it all took place with or without us while we did our best… Continue reading Almost Through May
I've been thinking about this for a long time. I knew I wasn't nailing it all along last summer while I prepared to give the workshop. And then, the moment it was over I knew what I had really wanted to say and couldn't figure out how to. What a fiasco. I still lay awake… Continue reading What I Really Wanted To Say
The month of April isn't beautiful in Wisconsin. It's pretty drab. The fire danger kites up after the snow is gone and before the green shows up. Everybody believes in April, though. It's like the moment of hush before the first song on Sunday morning at church. You know that spring is right there... Half… Continue reading Seeing Beauty
There is so much to be done around here that it's causing a fair amount of stress unless we keep talking to encourage each other. "We've forgotten how to play." Elv charged us on our way home from taking Brad's to the airport. "No, all these projects ARE play," is my protest. But to prove… Continue reading Every Minute
Here's a new view from The Stone House. We are making appreciable progress on the new lower level bathroom. Notice, I did not say basement. I think we can graduate from that term from now on! The shower is going in too, this week. We have Brad and Sierra here with us all week. They… Continue reading Monday Highlights
I've been thinking about perceptions and good judgement this week. I wonder about these things often, but this week especially, because I have a head cold and it's affected my hearing significantly. That ridiculous tornado siren on the firehall next door didn't bother me at all yesterday. I often run into an inner room and… Continue reading Hush and Poor Judgement
This Saturday post requires effort. What do you do when what this blog is for is not what's taking up mental energy right now? Furthermore the thing cannot be sorted into any semblance of speakableness. Not here, for sure. Besides this, the promising clouds and breeze are meaningless and empty. No snow all winter and… Continue reading March Madness
Oh well, let it be then. Will spring be spring with no winter preceding? Let's find out. There are pussy willows on my table, Thank You, Abbey. That's better than snow, anyway, since it's March now. The frost went out last week for good. Yay! We can clean up the lawns, again, Thanks to our trees,… Continue reading Acquiescent to Spring
It's Monday. There are three loaves of fresh baked bread on the counter in the kitchen. The house is strangely quiet: only the clocks and the little creaks from the stove, the tiny twits of birds at the feeders, and a car door shutting across the way... The soft swish of traffic. It's quiet because… Continue reading Life at the Stone House
It's Saturday evening. I've made tea of the Chamomile variety. Apparently, Elv is going to continue into the night with his project of transforming the basement utility room into a bathroom. Most often we play Scrabble in the evenings between reading or listening to music. So I have tea alone, unless you count yourselves as… Continue reading At Home
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