Stone House Scribblings

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

 Tis the Saturday morning before Christmas. The house is clean, the gifts are wrapped, and our music those same familiar carols again.Tomorrow morning we will sing Christmas songs with a full chapel of homecoming family groups. It will be lovely worship and fellowship.We have already, two days before the Day, gathered up some memorable events… Continue reading Christmas Days 2017

 The season of Christmas is here. It's the time for Christmas letters and cards coming in the mailbox every day. It's fun to get them. It's not so fun to make one for all of your mailboxes. This year we had Amy's boyfriend take a picture of us and I have only just now ordered… Continue reading Christmas Scribblings

 Last night I decided to make peanut brittle. With the right ingredients and a recipe I figured it can't be that hard. Who needs a candy thermometer anyway! The first batch burned. Too hot from following directions too precisely. My own common sense was better for once. I took the kettle off the burner and… Continue reading Peanut Brittle