Stone House Scribblings

   Summer is flying by. The August calendar page is too full. We checked through what those plans are and the only one we could actually dock was Brad's Driver Ed schedule. He will sign up for a session later in the fall after he is back from harvest time in Nebraska.      My sister… Continue reading Scattered Summer Scrapbook Notes

 That is, wild flowers and hollyhocks. The hollyhocks are over our heads and bloominggloriously.Cow Parsnip It's growing along Hwy 53 right now just this side of Superior for miles. Tall, white flowers beautifying the miles along with the yellow birds foot trefoil.Yellow RosesNot mine. Someone in Grand Marais, MN knows how to grow roses.     … Continue reading Talking About The Daffolils…

   Elv and I visited our Nebraskan daughters last weekend. These girls have the art of home decorating. I took pictures. I wish to brag on them a little here but I also want to show you how little effort and money it requires to create loveliness at home.  Jenny's husband is a photographer and a… Continue reading The Art of Homemaking

   Elv and I went out to Nebraska this past weekend. We like the drive down through Minnesota and Iowa into Nebraska.  Methinks Iowa ought to change its slogan from "silos and smokestacks" to "windmills and cornfields". The windmills are beautifully graceful and grand. Elv decided to find out how much electricity these windmills generate.… Continue reading Windmills & Pfaltzgraff Dishes

   Our morning started in the wee hours with a fire call. Elv went out quickly, running and doors slamming behind him. I tried to sleep between praying that he and the others would be safe. It was a house fire, nobody there, and quite consumed before they even got called out. But it got… Continue reading Monday Morning

  The grand-kiddos have discovered our wide window sills. This is a recipe for pinched fingers but who can resist taking a picture of the party? There is never a dull moment around here.  The beautiful Havilah.  She doesn't seem to mind that she is the only girl among the troop of boys in our family. She… Continue reading End of the Week Posting

I have been noticing that if I want to have a proper memory book to print of this blogging; I must include more pictures of people in action in our real life.  I freely admit I am over doing this but it was such a lot of fun. What they're doing here is brainstorming how to… Continue reading Cousins In a Canoe

 It is the time of the year for wild flower bouquets.  We gather them on our walks in pastures, ditches, or along woods trails.     Yesterday, driving along, and Lisl shouted "Stop, this is what I came home from Thailand for."  I had to turn the car around.  Fields of daisies, and bird's foot trefoil,… Continue reading Summer Bouquets

 Typical morning at the cabin whenever the house is full.  Elv cooking over the cookstove. Children bouncing off the walls. People having read time or journal time or "quiet" time. Breakfast coming right up. How do we all fit? We don't. So Amy, Brad, and Lance each find a place to put up a tent for… Continue reading More Summer Collages

     The longest days of summer are here. Warm sun, thick, green canopy of the amazing leaves, and bare feet on mowed lawn. Flowers bloom in place of piles of snow.  Perhaps flowers bloom because of piles of snow. Now there's a thought.     We have had a few "rainy" days here: relationship issues… Continue reading Summertime Scribblings