All Things Home and Family
~ We had a few days of hot summer, but the northland cool weather has returned. ~ Yesterday we put up a worktable in the sitting room down stairs under the AC for scrapbooking.~ And we took down a big, old bookcase in the process of making a workspace. Charlotte has dreams of painting… Continue reading Just Some Notes On Life At The Stone House
I am still learning about this. You'll notice I had used the carefully chosen phrase "constructive criticism". I don't care for criticism, to be honest with you. I have always worked very hard to conduct my life and manners in such a way to avoid criticism because of my aversion to it. Which has been… Continue reading Accepting Criticism
It was exactly one year ago to this very day that I posted about the chipmunks in the ceilings of our basement bedroom. The running, somers-sualts. back flips, slides, and squeaks over our heads began very early this morning around 2 AM. Words like infestation amd pestilence come to mind. Brad shot many chipmunks last… Continue reading Chipmunks Again
I just read Lucy’s blog again and was brought right up short…again. Her honesty always encourages me. She seems to have found the way to be honest and completely human without making us sort through the laundry so to speak. I think of a lot of things to blog: feelings, ideas, frustrations and struggles, but… Continue reading Graciousness
Today has been a good day of getting things done. Things other than what I had hoped to get done but that turned out to be okay. First I was going to plant garden. And we hoped to buy a few patio brick to replace the winter's crumbling of bricks. The garden needs to… Continue reading Accomplishments
One of the ways we know it is summer is that we cleaned a vacation home today. Summer cleaning jobs have begun. The lake shore was fascinating with the waves crashing on the beach in this wind. I would stand there and just watch them. But since we are paid by the hour I don't… Continue reading Summer Is Here
So far it is just gently raining. I can hear the rain and feel the sweet coolness through the open window. Will we get the hail and wind? We have a bear now! He was investigating the compost pile the other evening. Elv took the Jeep over there and honked him off, but he only… Continue reading Morning Storm
~ How much does a cubic yard of gravel weigh? Elv called me from work to ask. Answers.com says it weighs 2700 pounds. He is brainstorming a dump trailer for gravel hauling. ~ Where are my paint brushes? I am cleaning the living room today and there is great need of touch up with both… Continue reading Current Questions
Lance William (22)Frances Rose Today Frances and I talked about being seventeen and how it was my worst teenage year. I remember feeling like all my roads were slow downs. Part of the reason for that, of course, was the fact that up ahead at the big 18 the man who wanted to court me could...legally.… Continue reading More Ordinary Adventures
Brad mowed the lawn in an hour this week. That piece of info is just for you, Lisl. (Do you remember being frustrated that he took so long last summer?) He sang loudly while he mowed. I remember singing/harmonizing with the sweeper and the lawn mower. I even sang with the tractor while disking… Continue reading Ordinary Adventures
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