Author: Arla

Since there are people who "keep up" with us by reading this blog and since this is my current scribbling venue other than my personal journaling, I will sit down at my desk for the first time this fine Saturday morning. I don't exactly know where to start or what to write. Writing what I know… Continue reading One Week In

Here's a post that didn't. Fortunately our summer as you can see from these pictures, flew by. We did all the things: Sunday afternoon picnics, evenings outside by the fire, gardens, and flowers. Besides we made a water system that works at the cabin and the potatoes grew big, the squash took over, and the… Continue reading Summer Days

Garden daisies in whites are my favorite. Let's have sunflowers for yellow and gold and orange. These volunteer Forget-Me-Not flowers provide an old -fashioned touch. Besides what better blue is there anywhere? Purple coneflower isn't purple; it is pink. The cone itself is orange really or maroon-y brown depending on how you're looking at it.… Continue reading Summer In the Garden

Our weekend visit to the Nebraska family was wonderfully enjoyable. A graduation party, morning coffee on Jenny's new deck, seeing the girl's gardens, home-made ice cream, kayaking the Big Blue River, milking goats, living room visits inside where it was cool, a swimming party and getting reacquainted with the grandchildren are some of the ways… Continue reading Visiting Nebraska

This is a big deal right now for Elv and me. We would like to have running water, hot and cold, in our cabin kitchen. Besides, if we want this garden to be a functional garden, we must have a way to water it. So when the beavers built a dam down creek last fall,… Continue reading Water

The Garden at the Cabin We're finding our stride. When Mom called today to chat I was able to say to her that we are doing well and life seems doable again. Not that it wasn't all along, or that we've returned to what was normal for life way back in 2019. I am only… Continue reading New Normal

We have a fine combination of work and play in our lives these days. Our goal is to spend every other weekend at the cabin for building or projects prepping for our move to there this fall. We stay for Sunday. Our services at GBC are live streamed so we don't miss that. The fellowship… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Explorations

Lately, I have been inspired by those wonderful ladies who are sharing their home keeping ideas and methods on internet channels. These gals love their homes and the keeping of them. I have to say, that being a creative "housewife" seems to be quite cool these days. Whoever would have thought that making shareable footage… Continue reading Home Keeping

I have not made a simple picture post in a long time. So let's see where this takes us. Elv brought flowers home for me yesterday. A big, luscious bouquet of red and white roses with lovely floral and green foliage. The roses are fragrant and firm so I'll have this bouquet on the table… Continue reading Spring Picture Post

Of course when I chose Shelter for my word for 2020, I had no idea we were going to need that word this year. Covid-19 was just making its rounds on the other side of the world having nothing whatsoever to do with us on this side of the globe. We hadn't heard of it… Continue reading Shelter and Covid-19