Stone House Scribblings

~ I learned that health is a gift. And I intend to be more grateful again for how great it is to feel well and energetic and strong. There is no way I can trump up strength and wellness. Talk about trusting God to help me to fight the bug and restore wellness. That was… Continue reading What I Learned While Having The Flu

    Being sick has not all been a waste of time after all. How else would I have gotten this reminder now, right on time. Now, while we have been clearing out extra stuff and dreaming of simpler ways to keep this old house tidy and welcoming and functional. I can get carried away in… Continue reading Simple Living

While the world watches the Olympic activities and the surrounding news and opinion about North Korea's cheer leading squad, I get to sip my freshly pressed coffee at home, quietly. I enjoy my faith openly. Everyone in my world respects my right to work where I wish, shop, play, cry, smile and pray whenever, wherever… Continue reading What I Think

Sometimes numbers are just boring. But right now, in our family, they hold a certain interest for me. We have been married for thirty-five years. Five of our seven children are married and Amy is about to add a husband to her life making our total number for the Graber family a nicely rounded thirty.… Continue reading Numbers and a Theory

 We did have such a nice time at the cabin last weekend. We hadn't been since October so Elv and I had lost track of how we had left it then. Getting in late Friday evening to an empty wood box, pantry and unmade beds is not fun. So pulling up to welcome light spilling… Continue reading Snowshoe Weekend

The whole family here at the stone house is involved in it. I began this little effort sometime during January after Amy got engaged. Began because it suddenly struck me that if I am going to be the only home cleaner and keeper around here, the only laundress, cook, and bottle washer, something is going… Continue reading Winter De-cluttering

 We've been having the nicest kind of winter there is.  Snow-fall at regular intervals, sub-zero nights between snows, and the blue sky days to turn the whole world into a dazzling vista. Snow is blue and white and grey and all the shades thereof. Charlotte tells me that I talk about the blue colored snow… Continue reading Winter Posting

                                    Thankful List~ A new Singer sewing machine. Sewing has renewed charm for now. Maybe just until I get a few comforter tops sewed up.~ I get to go to St. Croix with Elv for his work week. Next week we get the cabin that is right on the job… Continue reading Thankful List January 2018

 We never know what is in the new year and 2018 is no exception. With the inescapable, relentless sub-zero weather and the away-from-home logging job, besides our babies and men getting sick with the current flu, the idea of resolutions seems unimportant. Instead we wear layers of clothing to keep warm and work to keep… Continue reading 2018 Opens

 Christmas vacation has been truly restful for which we are grateful. The days leading up to our vacation were anything but restful with a grandson in the hospital for a week and everyone of us needing to be at two places at once. By the time Friday before Christmas rolled around; I was having trouble… Continue reading 2017 Is Almost Gone