My day started with a cup of coffee with Elv. It happened to be warmer upstairs in the living room so that's where we sat. I am studying to teach Sunday School next Sunday. We're in Nehemiah 7 where all the family names of the returned Jews are listed. At the end of… Continue reading A Day In The Life Of This Mom
Category: homemaking in the northwoods
Miracles Just For Me
My new contacts came this week. So now I can see to sew. The old glasses made everything I look at so small that I couldn't see anything tiny anymore. I haven't been able to sew for a couple years now and crocheting a doily has been impossible. Not anymore. With the combination… Continue reading Miracles Just For Me
Gardening
Is coming! I know I just did a post and so this is number two for the day. Deal with it! April inspired me. We're going to have green beans...three/four rows of them and tomatoes on the trellis this year. And flowers! That's what my garden grows so like Mary Mary… Continue reading Gardening
Another Day in January
It was cold all day today. And now that it is evening; it is even colder. I saw 0 degrees a few minutes ago and the evening is quite young. We could have close to -30 degrees tonight.So we are having cheeseburger soup in bread bowls for supper tonight. Frances and I settled on that… Continue reading Another Day in January
Sunday Supper
We had venison roast for supper last night. It cooked nicely on the wood stove all day while we were in church. Our supper laid out on the coffee table by the fire was a lovely quiet way to spend the evening. We all got a kick out of using the knife that Gabe forged from… Continue reading Sunday Supper
Homemade Noodles
When my friend called me last week and asked me if I'd like to help make noodles; I had no idea I was going to come home with six bread bags of a finished product. When I arrived at her house yesterday morning she had a large yellow lump of dough resting in her bakery… Continue reading Homemade Noodles
Christmas Cookies
We did the traditional cookie baking here last week and the week before, too. I bought more almond bark this year than ever before. We coated peanut butter balls, coconut balls, shortbread, kringles, and pretzels. I didn't mean to have a one track mind; just did, that's all. Charlotte made those cookies with the jam… Continue reading Christmas Cookies
Trash Disposal
Years ago the local dump was at the end of the road where you backed the pick-up tailgate over the edge of a smoggy pit, shoved the trash off, and then drove away. Everything went in there and slowly burned or rusted away. A bulldozer nearby made sure it was confined and neatly buried eventually… Continue reading Trash Disposal
Evening At Home
‘By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sort of rooms, was wonderful. Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates, baking through… Continue reading Evening At Home
Oasis
From all those messes we’ve been making around here. We pulled out the boiler, and emptied the furnace room downstairs. See: So to come to the supper table to our own homespun oasis is nice. I was going to set the chicken and biscuit hotdish on the table there, too, in all… Continue reading Oasis
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