Stone House Scribblings

Learning to own what is mine: my messes, challenges, failures, and weaknesses has been helping me to pull away from blame and hopelessness. As long as it is someone else's fault when I am sad or have made a mistake I am paralyzed to help myself. Vision and forgiveness are also mine. So is the… Continue reading Owning What Is Mine

 We have been having happy early summer days. We spent Memorial Day at Lewi's with the Graber's who could be there. Mom had an "activity" planned for us, so said our invitation.It turned out to be a sorting through some of her storage to give it away to us or throw it away as suited… Continue reading Ordinary Days

    I witnessed something awesome (Yes, only God is awesome, but so is something He is in) and inspiring yesterday.  We belong to a tiny, country fellowship of believers. On a Sunday morning when the house is full we can maybe muster a count of fifty people.  We are small and sometimes we feel… Continue reading Living In Yes With the Team

   Suddenly we are plunged into a new summer schedule. Last time, back in 2011 or was it 12, it didn't pan out so great. We hope this time it works better.   Elv and Lance will be logging over in Minnesota. They're taking a travel trailer with plans to live on the job and mostly… Continue reading Summer Work/Adventure

 It's almost summer again. Summer: bare feet, vacation days, biking on dusty lanes, swimming in the coolness of blue sparkling, sun-flecked water, weeding in the garden, toes dug down past the too-warm soil to the damp and cool beneath.     It is the season for tailgate suppers in the woods beside the monster machines… Continue reading Monday Posting/Musings

Fleeting days. Happy, exciting times of being together. A bright future before you.Every courtship is different. So is yours. You didn't follow the neat and tidy formula very much. At all!Lance said he had to date someone he already knew pretty well and he had to know ahead of time if she liked him. This… Continue reading Dating Days

 We took a long awaited weekend get-away "up north". Not to raise the controversial question of whether or not it is OK to leave everyone and everything behind for three days and just be alone as a couple; I would say this. It works for us. We rejuvenate ourselves and our marriage with quiet and… Continue reading You Make My Life the Best, And I am Grateful

 It's a rainy day. Elv is puttering about much needed tire changes on the Jeep and pickup.     I am sitting at my computer trying to write. It is not working. After three hours of scribbling and backspacing; I have a few disconnected paragraphs about something which I am only partially in the know.… Continue reading Diffusing the Fragrance

Here's a picture posting just for fun. I started out with a camera to take pictures of our various home made blackboards. You'll see those as we go along here, too.                                                … Continue reading Places In Our house