All Things Home and Family
Things I am thankful for this Christmas:* A Poinsettia On My Table My aunt Eva used to bring me one every year. She has been gone for over 15 years and I still think of it and miss her. This year I bought one and I am cheered just as much as if Eva had… Continue reading Blessings
I quite agree with this essay on the subject of Christmas.
My sister commented on my last post: I like the Christmas story about the guy who stepped on a pin and broke it and couldn't find the other end of it....he thought he was going to die....his wife found the other end but never told him because he was doing a wonderful job turning his… Continue reading Another Christmas Story
We read them every Christmas. There are whole collections of quaint and pithy tales of woe turned to joy just in time for Christmas. These stories warm the soul just as surely as the fire in the living room fireplace warms the toes.Charles Dickens wrote his famous Christmas Carol just before Yuletide one year to… Continue reading Cozy Christmas Fireside Stories
Elv's family is going to be here for Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday after the Day. If they all come there will about 29 people here. We plan to seat all of us around the table using china and goblets. For those of you worried about having to do dishes half the afternoon; we've got that… Continue reading Thanksgiving and Christmas
This picture is a tentative admission on my part that life is going on... That this family has adjusted to our new shape and size...we think. We like having fewer loads of laundry and more space for our earthly goods in our little old stone house. We like the smaller table.We didn't like the loss… Continue reading Life Goes On
We spent Monday working the apples into cider with this press. It was steady but enjoyable work washing, cutting, and pressing out the cider. We are looking forward to many winter evenings of games and cider by the fire. Cider and fudge. Cider and doughnuts. Come join us.
We picked apples today for cider. My friend and I took our children and gathered 30 plus bushels of them. Will that make a lot of cider? This was the first time of picking apples for some of our children so they considered this an adventure as opposed to work. Since there has been frost… Continue reading
Of Attitudes and Prerogatives How many of you have had to remind business or medical professionals of your prerogatives? Or am I the only one who runs into this? Here's my newest scenario. Elv burned his hand on the welder exhaust yesterday while working around his pickup. Joe, the Nortrax mechanic who was also on… Continue reading What Do You Do?
We had a bear wander into our local grocery store last night. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/64651987.htmlWe have had bears wander through our Northwoods lawn many times. I took a picture of this bear on his foray through here last summer. This kind of thing is so frequent that we have lost our respect and fear of them to… Continue reading Wild Beasts In The Land
Stone House Scribblings 