It's been a good Monday. All three shirts came through the laundry which seems funny...I washed on Saturday. Apparently I missed these. That's fine, they're good to go again. We're having occasional stove fires now. I love this season. We have the best firewood possible this year. Because it is quite dry or cured as… Continue reading Looks Like Home
Category: Fall Decor
Notes From The Journal
Psalm 147: 2-6 The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem... Where He dwells with us. He gathers Israel's exiled people... Those we thought lost. He heals the brokenhearted... Even me. And bandages their wounds... He takes time and cares for my details. He counts the number of the stars... He has the tally of the impossible. He gives… Continue reading Notes From The Journal
Northland Ladies Retreat 2024
It's a gorgeous day in September. Elv and I are spending Sunday afternoon on the lawn. He's getting a nap and here I am trying to create a decent account of the retreat. The house was full. In fact, they closed the sign up place last week a few days before the event. Two hundred… Continue reading Northland Ladies Retreat 2024
Evening Post
The store where I was fern shopping this spring had a huddle of frost damaged ones in a back corner, no doubt destined for the dumpster. I was asked not to tell you how I came to bring one of them home. I watered it again today and am planning to bring it indoors for… Continue reading Evening Post
A Good Brisk Sit
I'm remembering Grandma Skrivseth this evening, because of weariness. I didn't work hard today... Just all day. So I'm ready to hang out in Elv's study under the AC, curled up in a corner of the big red couch. Grandma sat a lot, the last years of her life, because she could, not because she… Continue reading A Good Brisk Sit
Thanksgiving Week
How shall we best be thankful? Reading THIS post today inspired me to really want to make Thanksgiving and Christmas a special memory this year.And HERE is another great post on how to be thankful.How about a list of expectations:* Gatherings. In living rooms and around tables. Rows of shining faces along long tables laden with… Continue reading Thanksgiving Week