Stone House Scribblings

Winter Project 

 This is my scrapbook page of our 2016 Christmas. It will be mostly just pictures: out of order, random captioning, plus gaps. So many things of which I have no pictures.We had ten days of holiday doings with parts of the family. The men worked days. We played evenings. We had two days where we… Continue reading Merry Christmas 2016

 Sunday morning dawned a new year. In church, our eldest grandchild chose to slip in and sit between Elv and I. The cold winter outside the rows of windows flanking our quiet, waiting congregation was a beautiful back drop for our small gathering of smiling hearts.    Jube nudged me and looking up with his twinkling… Continue reading This Year I Will

We are having a best Christmastime ever, I think. Here's why. It has been nine years since our whole family is with us during Christmastime. Dru's are here to complete our circle this year.Another difference is that through the miracle of nuclear medicine my personal world view is quite improved. Stale story. But still it… Continue reading The Best Christmas Ever

Winter arrived full-fledged and frigidly cold ... before Christmas. We have snow and sub-zero temps at night.This is perfect weather for catching a few snowflakes with a lens. I tried to cut a regular looking six-sided paper snowflake this morning. I have never known how to do this. All of mine to date have been… Continue reading A White Christmas

 December is commencing with the proper amount of Christmas events and plans. I love it. Decorating and cleaning and Cookie Day. I like this, too.    Today one of the young moms from church texted me to get an opinion about an idea for decorating at the church. I am reminded of our earthly way of… Continue reading Scribbling in December

A solitary drowsing by the fireside this Sunday afternoon makes for some retrospective thought. I have this moment to sort through the accumulated clutter of schedules, lists, problems, and busy-ness of this crazy life we live.  I am trying to settle on savoring the accomplishments.    I need a long "think" about the fact that our… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Musings

Amy and I made two winter patio boxes for fun today. We have neat little solar lights from the store which we enjoyed all summer  ranged among the impatiens just so. They flicker and glow in the evening till late at night. So we moved them into the boxes for some more joy.This is an… Continue reading Patio Winter Decor

The cute kitten  that is no longer having succumbed to a fisher or mouse poison or neighbors gave Havilah much joy. He disappeared without a trace, as they say.We have had no luck with kittens in the past and evidently that hasn't changed.   You are seeing a little jet lag happening here. The Thai children… Continue reading Random Blurry Pictures of Our Thanksgiving Time

 We have begun to decorate for the Holidays. I want to keep it simple and homey as much as possible this year. It is a great opportunity to vacuum up the rather prolific spiders and their messes, too. So corner by corner, little by little we shall have a clean house again.  The fat cardinals… Continue reading Winter Cottage Decorating