Author: Arla

 ... let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.                                             Hebrews 13:15                          My Thankful List~ Sunshine pouring into the living room on a March morning.~ The prospect of two cabin days coming up.~ The end of winter viruses at our house.~ Grown… Continue reading Thankful All Day Long

 The rain has been forecasted for over a week. We were all hoping that "they" would be wrong again. It's a month too early for spring breakup for the loggers. The "Birke"  (annual world class ski race) is scheduled for this coming weekend. Will the snow be all rained away? Will the loggers be cast upon… Continue reading Monday Rain in February

 Even in the city there's beauty on a cold winter day. I noticed and grabbed this photo in Minneapolis last week on our way to set up for The Lake Home and Cabin show.Setting up our booth in the convention center reminded me of Sugar on Snow days. It seems long ago and far away,… Continue reading February Blahs and Other Adventures

 Cold weather has returned after a couple of weeks of a January thaw. Amy removed a bucket full of ashes from the living room stove and Elv cleaned them out of the stove in his study. When this cold weather hit yesterday we started having trouble getting a good bed of coals and our fires… Continue reading Roses and Silver and Ordinary Winter Days

 It's Monday evening. We have a few inches of new, powdery snow on the ground and more coming maybe. It's cold again. One of these days maybe the sun will come out on a white sparkling world and we'll be able to get some much needed happy.   Blogging and writing have ground to a standstill… Continue reading Winter Monday Post

Winter Project 

 This is my scrapbook page of our 2016 Christmas. It will be mostly just pictures: out of order, random captioning, plus gaps. So many things of which I have no pictures.We had ten days of holiday doings with parts of the family. The men worked days. We played evenings. We had two days where we… Continue reading Merry Christmas 2016

 Sunday morning dawned a new year. In church, our eldest grandchild chose to slip in and sit between Elv and I. The cold winter outside the rows of windows flanking our quiet, waiting congregation was a beautiful back drop for our small gathering of smiling hearts.    Jube nudged me and looking up with his twinkling… Continue reading This Year I Will

We are having a best Christmastime ever, I think. Here's why. It has been nine years since our whole family is with us during Christmastime. Dru's are here to complete our circle this year.Another difference is that through the miracle of nuclear medicine my personal world view is quite improved. Stale story. But still it… Continue reading The Best Christmas Ever