All Things Home and Family
Amy brought plum blossoms in a pint jar to me today. Currently it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, ever. I suppose, I mean, I know that that's a ridiculous thing to say. Because I've seen many "most beautiful" scenes and flowers and faces. You can't plan for the beauty of a plum blossom… Continue reading The Most Beautiful Things
This post has been languishing in my drafts folder for days. It's pictures of our vacation in Idaho and Nebraska. Now I'll hurry up and fill in some and send. Life has picked up here at home to a hectic pitch if we want. We're not keeping up at all. But we can talk about… Continue reading Picture post
I've noticed these before for you, so skip along to something else if you want. Yesterday we had wind gusts that gave us little dust whirlwinds and took down a tree back in the woods with a crash, and brought these interesting twigs down. Mom and I found them on the gravel when we were on… Continue reading American Larch
I visited with my family in Mom and Dad's living room last night. Elv was off again to the mountains with Josh. I mention what Elv was doing because it adds to my scattered ideas here. He is most certainly not bothered by duty to society or how many connections to keep. Mountain trails… Continue reading Guilted or Blessed
Looks different in a travel trailer. But certainly not as non-existent as you might suppose. We like wild rice soup and I toasted sour dough slices on foil on the little wood stove to go with it. It's a really narrow table. Not a gracious living width at all. But we manage to sit and… Continue reading Gracious Living
And time is running out on me. We've been going on drives up mountains till the snow stops us. Tonight it was up Black Mountain, where logging happens...I don't see how. The road (think gravel logging road) is a winding ledge built into the mountain that lets us climb up. The views are awesome. These… Continue reading Full Days
Mom brought in the first Johnny Jump Ups. This is the whole clump: soil, mulch, and all nestled into a crystal desert bowl. She says she still misses the Wisconsin woods flowers in the spring. This is her annual fix, apparently. Somehow it reminded me of the Girl of the Limberlost. Elv invested in new… Continue reading Mountain Trail Baldy A
It's camper living for sure but nicely familiar and happy, too. Our favorite chores of firewood and laundry and off grid living are our version of the popular ideal of quiet living. Francis found raw milk for us. We visited the neatest little farm stand today to pick it up. This particular half gallon is… Continue reading Mountaineer Days
It's really quiet, except for my music. Elv is sleeping in his chair. I borrowed a popcorn popper from Francis. I keep borrowing things because it's hard to remember what I would have needed in the travel trailer. We're parked in the woods of tall pine trees. The sun shines through in yellow patches. This… Continue reading Saturday Evening
It's been great staying at Mom and Dad's for our first week in the West. It's great to have our own place to live now, too. Joshes well-lived-in travel trailer needed some TLC which we have been providing. There are still bits to complete. The view from the table is quite satisfactory, don't you think?… Continue reading A Place of Our Own
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