All Things Home and Family
We spent a week at our cabin on vacation this fall. It is "off the grid", the cabin itself unfinished. A lovely little cook-stove called Happy Meal is our main cooking source although we do have an LP burner and even an electric frying pan if we want. We have a generator to run our… Continue reading Cook Stove Adventure
Amy and I flew out to Idaho to see the Skrivseth family for ourselves. We found them just as we expected, taking turns gathering around this famous bar. The favorite meeting place is located at the home of Sid and Ruth Skrivseth, my parents. Each day we ate mom's delicious meals here. Each day someone… Continue reading Idaho Visit And Oddments of Thought
We spent Saturday evening and Sunday with Mom/Grandma Graber this past weekend. The roads were good and our student driver did a great job. He didn't appreciate how the traffic picked up after Eau Claire and soon handed the wheel over to his dad. His road test is coming up. Then we'll have completed all… Continue reading When I Am Ninety
They played on this landing and these stairs almost constantly. Playing more Rook.This will have to do till later. Besides being frustrated with my camera; I am otherwise occupied with tax work, laundry, and chasing dust bunnies. The rest of February will go flying by in a whirl of Valentine's Day stuff, our colonial living history… Continue reading A Few Toddler and Other Pictures
A Benny Post These are not good pictures at all, but they'll have to do for now. Benny lives in a world of doting uncles and aunts and all adults. Last night he figured out how to turn the lever to run the little electric train. Imagine being the midget among giants, having a… Continue reading Except Ye Become As A Little Child…
Each fall we try to get updated portraits of the children. I stand and click pictures one right after the other until I have over a hundred of them. We chose various places to pose. And they horse around the whole time making jovial fun of themselves and each other to convince all of us… Continue reading School Pictures 2011
That would be good name for the logging business. Because it would be quite accurate. So one day this week Frances and I went to the job and presided over the repair of one machine while Brad rode along with Lance in the other machine. Frances and I took a walk too. But mostly we… Continue reading Dawn Till Dark Logging
My mom has a birthday in a day or two and will be one year older. I bet you thought I was going to say how old she is. Not me. Mom is forever young in a lot of ways.Mom teaches us to enjoy work. Work is therapy. Work is a healer. Work gets your… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Mom
Despite best efforts, and convictions, and plans, things happen. Here's an example. We found out that Brad has never had the MMR series of immunizations. He is twelve years old. How did that happen? He has had the chicken pox immunization, of all things, and polio, and HIB. But not the MMR! I could care… Continue reading How Did That Happen?
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