Category: Winter

A Home Winter Collage for the Children Far AwayFrost on the Windows in This Old HouseWhich one of you girls did Gladys Martin send this plant home with? A Rabbit's Foot Fern. It is outdoing itself this year, gloriously.A Fine Winter Morning of -16*Smoke From the Boy's CabinThe Current Work TableUncle Amos and Auntie Carol… Continue reading Winter Picture Post…Happy Things

                I have wonderful memories of ice-skating all my growing up years. We always had a puzzle to work in the evening after we had frozen our toes skating on the creek (pronounced krik) ice. I will never forget the return of feelings in my toes and the resulting pain. It is a wonder we… Continue reading Ice-Skating

Yes, the winter blues are here!  We are having to pull along steadily with more effort.  Brad has been faithfully building fire over a huge heap of ash build-up which makes stoking a chore. The house is chilly well into the morning.  We are inclined to complain. We take turns checking the thermostat. "Did somebody… Continue reading The Winter Blues

We all have them, don't we? It's that time of year when suddenly we realize that it's been cold for a long time.  We've been making fires, hauling wood, and wearing sweaters indoors for months now.  The sad snow has become definite strata.  Any new snow looks like frosting on a marble cake and there's… Continue reading The Winter Blahs

We woke up to snow falling this morning. It's a wet, heavy snow...the kind that cause  half-dead overweighted branches to come crashing down startling us out of our hypnosis watching the stuff falling past our windows.  The few adventurous cars go by with a muffled sloshing.  It's a perfect day for the quiet turning of… Continue reading Sunday Morning Musings

We're going through a lot of firewood.  Lance and Brad know how much since they do all the hauling, splitting, and and the boiler fire fixing.  Brad keeps the basket by our sitting room stove full of dry oak and tamarack wood which I really enjoy this winter.  For a fresh new fire I have… Continue reading What’s Happening At Home