All Things Home and Family
And not vicariously, through Instagram or the likes of that imposter of one's own zest and very wits. The lowliest room at our house has a cactus blooming in the window sill for the second time since last late fall. I'm far more gratified with this than if I saw someone else's whole conservatory on… Continue reading Living a Beautiful Life
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
In the end, May has been a quick exchange of quiet spring to lush June-like green and glory. Now we're mowing the grass every few days. Trees are leafed out. And the patio flowers planted. The church calendar was too full, but it all took place with or without us while we did our best… Continue reading Almost Through May
Here's a new view from The Stone House. We are making appreciable progress on the new lower level bathroom. Notice, I did not say basement. I think we can graduate from that term from now on! The shower is going in too, this week. We have Brad and Sierra here with us all week. They… Continue reading Monday Highlights
It's Monday. There are three loaves of fresh baked bread on the counter in the kitchen. The house is strangely quiet: only the clocks and the little creaks from the stove, the tiny twits of birds at the feeders, and a car door shutting across the way... The soft swish of traffic. It's quiet because… Continue reading Life at the Stone House
January has been all 31 days long. Maybe ten of those days were actually our usual kind of winter with cold and snow. Otherwise, we mostly had grey days and were too warm in temperatures. It messes with our sense of time and seasons. But today the sun came out and those glass sun catchers… Continue reading Sun’s Out!
Actually, the week started last Saturday instead of thinking in the usual way that it starts on Monday. Or that's just my way of notching my stick, I suppose. Anyway, it's Saturday again. Last Saturday at this time Elv and I four-wheeler-ed up to our lamp-lit cabin and clambered down the snowbank… Continue reading The Week In Words
I rearranged the refrigerator art this morning. Gwen handed me a new piece while she was here this week so it was a good time to update anyway. Jube's beaver and Havilah's big yellow duck stay. I'll add in more as it comes. We enjoy it. There are two Thankful magnets. Elv met me here… Continue reading Gratitude Upgrade
Because she wanted to know why I never talk to her or more particularly why she never hears from me or Evie and what had she done to deserve to have such silent sisters. The following is some reparation for my neglect, I hope. I am being "efficient" and posting it in a blog as well, albeit… Continue reading Wherein I Tell Shilah What My LIfe Is…
Amy posted about choices and finding joy and contentment wherever we are today. Read it here. She did a grand job of saying it well. The quote at the top of her post set me back just a little. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as… Continue reading Good Taste Matters
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