All Things Home and Family
It's Sunday afternoon and I'm already raring to go on next week's projects toward moving. We went to Menards yesterday to gather supplies to finish up the new stairway. I spent three days at the Stone House painting and cleaning last week. So if you know my life you'll realize that I had no days… Continue reading Snow on Sunday, Too.
We're moving to our own house, the Stone House, soon. It'll be another few weeks but already we're beginning the process. Elv has collected the annual load of metal to take to recycling and I have a stack of boxes full of empty jars in the study. It's a start. I have a list of… Continue reading Countdown Days
Ruffed Grouse White Pine Frosting We have snow. Lots of snow. Not sunshine, really. Each day a gray sky shuts out the sun. People are starting to feel that hibernation might be a good choice. What's with this lethargy? And a certain dreary dullness? The snow is beautiful though. There is something nicely legitimate about… Continue reading Gray Days
Words are probably my favorite thing. Reading and writing and talking. Words are also my enemy in the middle of the night sometimes. Words heal hearts. They also hurt, wounding spirits and reopening wounds. Words are life or death. Jesus is the Word made flesh. He lived here and left his words for us that… Continue reading Writing and Speaking Lessons
With snow falling, again, I scribble here for you. Last year at this time we were both sick. We couldn't know then how much of our year, our energy and money and time would be taken up as repercussions thereof. Why even reflect on it? Why indeed! Except that we came through to this new… Continue reading Old Year, New Year
We have a Christmas tree this year. You all helped us with that. I've always been enamored with Christmas trees and lights because they "strike joy" during our long darkness. But we were raised to consider Christmas trees, especially, somewhat superfluous and maybe even "worldly". This year when the new cards began to arrive I… Continue reading Christmas Trees and Snow
Jesus came and gave Himself for us ... We were/are sin-broken and hopeless. But He bought us back. I'm thinking about the miracle of that this year. Flinging my soul there again. Oh yes, we've been healing and walking on, but, it's the full redemption that is ahead when He comes back for us that… Continue reading Christmas, Again
And it's kind of a lazy afternoon. I've been doing a puzzle, (thanks to my secret sister from church), and listening to Gaskel's Cranford on Audible. Oh, I could be working on half a dozen other chores or projects, but I happen to know that this hour is precious and passing. I saw today that… Continue reading Bitterly Cold and Snowy Day
Because people do read my scribblings, so I hear. It's so much easier to talk or write with an awareness of an engaged communicator on the other side of a live conversation. Of course there's a simpler way to say that but, go ahead, you edit it yourself to your hearts content. We've moved the… Continue reading Must Post Something
It's a mixed up life. Here are a dozen pictures to prove it. We've had snow for a few days the week before last. Now it's 70 degrees, clouds and sunshine intermittently. Most of the leaves are on the ground unlike the days it was snowing. Then, the leaves were blazing and blushing in all… Continue reading Capricious Fall & Feelings
Stone House Scribblings 