* Beautiful fall days. * Leaves to rake. * Brad doing his school work in record time. * New grandbabies. * Sunday afternoon singing times. * Photography worth framing. * Wood stoves to keep us warm in winter.
Category: homemaking in the northwoods
The Stove Is In
Maybe some of you have an idea of how impressed and happy and pleased I am with the completion of this project! Remember those old boards I was playing with last week? Well here they are installed and making us happy. Even Elv is convinced. I’m dreaming of sitting around a snapping fire with… Continue reading The Stove Is In
Summer’s Almost Over
Summer's at the end: school books are ordered, it's cool outside, the garden is tired and full of surprises, and I'm getting the urge to make firewood. I promised Elv that if he'd bring home the firewood logs; Brad and I will make it all into stove wood. I love that work of "splitting and… Continue reading Summer’s Almost Over
A Week of Events
This post will be disconnected, busy, and hardly coherent...just like our days/world/life right now. I have just spent a week in the company of my two parents traveling to Barb's funeral in Michigan... and back, also having them here at home with us till this morning. It's a long 12 hours to Newago, MI! It's… Continue reading A Week of Events
The War On Chipmunks
Is he a cute little bugger? No he is not. The chipmunks have moved into our house. They have a chipmunk dance and multiple domestic squabbles every night above our heads on the upper side of the bedroom ceiling tiles. Back when they were content with the old… Continue reading The War On Chipmunks
Saturday Scribbles
It was hot hoecakes for breakfast this morning with either peanut butter and syrup or butter and gooseberry syrup. Then Lance, Elv and I went down to Rice Lake to collect materials for a new closet in the boy's cabin, and 30 new bricks for the patio. We left three people home to mow… Continue reading Saturday Scribbles
Spring Cleaning
We cleaned the "jar room" yesterday. That little place under the basement steps has been nagging me for a long time. I warned the girls last week that spring cleaning was about to begin and we'd do the worst first. The girls didn't seem to mind the idea, so even with several phone interruptions… Continue reading Spring Cleaning
In Praise of Pressure Canners
The canner exploded for me today. Brad and I were downstairs studying in Mom's Sitting Room enjoying a cozy fire when we heard a loud clattering overhead. My first thought were that the girls were doing something unwise with serious results of a wall falling in or something. Which proves that my thought processes were… Continue reading In Praise of Pressure Canners
Stone House Scribblings 