All Things Home and Family
I have always needed a garden shed to store the rakes and hoes and things. A non-over-lapping-with-Elvs-tools-and-projects space. A girl space sacred to lawn care machines. And the fencing paraphernalia. The reasons seem obvious to me. So this spring when a ton of thought and dreams materialized into a shop for Elv; I saw my… Continue reading Summer She Shed
I prayed for this Monday day this morning. Because the last two Mondays have been hard work. It just seemed like they were uphill days, all day. I don't remember what all happened but I haven't forgotten the frustrations and maybe even some tears. So this morning, I talked to Jesus about it and asked… Continue reading Summer Days
This picture of our house is from the play ground across the road. While the grandsons played; I realized that I rarely see it from this perspective. Yes, I'm still in love with this old pile of stones. We've stacked up a lot of love and memories inside these walls in thirty-five plus years. The… Continue reading Summer Cottage
My piano collects things. Without intervention and intention, collections would keep on accumulating. Mostly I like to have minimal surface clutter, but honestly, in this moment I like what's happening on the piano... for now. The family picture canvas came first. That's the only wall that it fits...the only wall space that is big enough.… Continue reading Clutter
The dear old Franklin sits in rustic non-splendor in the little town of Milford, Indiana. Elv's brother Tim owns it, sort of. The truth is, this old machine holds a lot of memories for Elv's beginning years as a logger. It was old and ugly then already. Honestly, we wonder how we even made a… Continue reading Portraits
We came home from Indiana where we celebrated one of Elv's brother's 70th birthday. Chicago traffic was thick and slow on our way down. So we came home through the woods of Michigan, over the big bridge and then more woods through Wisconsin. We were home for two hours when our next business in life… Continue reading Observations
Episode, The First We've been "going up to Cheney" for thirty years. I don't think we've ever missed a summer. Cheney Lake is located in the barrens just northwest of Barnes. Google maps will take you to the lake, we found out, on the narrowest sandy trails, through the bramble and hazel bush. Elv said… Continue reading Cheney Lake 2025
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
Stone House Scribblings 