People used to eschew something they called the February blahs. I simply don't understand. Our February calendar is always full. It's the month we realize that school has been half over for a couple of weeks already; but our books aren't quite to the middle, yet. It's the month for Elv's birthday.… Continue reading February, The Busy Month
Category: Scribblings
My Thankful List
Elv gently reprimanded me yesterday. You're a different woman now that we've decided to change the schedule back to fewer hours. Okay, I admit it. I'm pleased about that decision, inordinately so. We had further bantering discussion about how he ought to have married a woman who wanted money more than time together. We're both… Continue reading My Thankful List
Ramblings From The Scribbler
Gone are the blue skies of October. And now are the grey skies of November. Lawn chairs and outdoor grillings have been abandoned. It's too cold for evenings of patio fires. The flower foliage stands dead and soggy in the garden. We're in that inbetween time of putting autumn away and before taking the holidays out… Continue reading Ramblings From The Scribbler
Just Ramblings
First about being in limbo: Elv is working an hour from home and staying there in a the "Tamarack Residence" at Heartwood this week. The room is a little duplex with lots of bunks, a very modern fireplace, a teeny kitchen, a massive, many partitioned rest/shower room, and tile floors. We thought about… Continue reading Just Ramblings
Another Post About Visiting Northern Minnesota With The Aunties
Dad, did I tell you how we lost and found the Graceton Depot? The Aunties and Trenda and I decided to go driving around to see the old places. When we drove into Graceton and crossed the tracks the old depot was missing. The Aunties noticed immediately and set up a howl of… Continue reading Another Post About Visiting Northern Minnesota With The Aunties
Good Taste Matters
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
A Little Old Church
Does any of you recognize this building? Our family, the Skrivseths, do. Too tired tonight to explain...just home from a weekend with "The Aunties" as Trenda and I dubbed them, but till later, here is a teaser.7/10/11 Okay, I'm back. It's the little Mennonite Church in Graceton, Minnesota. The doors have been closed for years… Continue reading A Little Old Church
Lake Superior Winnowing
Elv and I parked the Jeep by the shore in Kitch-Gami park in Duluth last night. It was about 48 degrees and the water was a grey green color in real life. I wondered why the camera picked up the blue that we couldn't see. The seagulls thought we were bringing hand-outs and kept watchful… Continue reading Lake Superior Winnowing
Just Some Notes On Life At The Stone House
~ We had a few days of hot summer, but the northland cool weather has returned. ~ Yesterday we put up a worktable in the sitting room down stairs under the AC for scrapbooking.~ And we took down a big, old bookcase in the process of making a workspace. Charlotte has dreams of painting… Continue reading Just Some Notes On Life At The Stone House
Morning Storm
So far it is just gently raining. I can hear the rain and feel the sweet coolness through the open window. Will we get the hail and wind? We have a bear now! He was investigating the compost pile the other evening. Elv took the Jeep over there and honked him off, but he only… Continue reading Morning Storm
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