All Things Home and Family
We found this glorious iris blooming with the others yesterday. The rain had weighted the one stem of it down to the ground. Yesterday there was one white iris in full bloom and two buds on the same stem. By this morning another bud opened into this huge flower. The funny thing about this… Continue reading God Will Take Care Of You
Since the fabulous front loading washer is no longer functional we have been doing the laundry outdoors with the help of this old relic. It is really quite efficient. I can get the whole huge laundry on the line and drying in about 2 1/2 hours. Working over the open washer grabbing at the socks… Continue reading What’s Happening At Home
Despite best efforts, and convictions, and plans, things happen. Here's an example. We found out that Brad has never had the MMR series of immunizations. He is twelve years old. How did that happen? He has had the chicken pox immunization, of all things, and polio, and HIB. But not the MMR! I could care… Continue reading How Did That Happen?
Elv and I parked the Jeep by the shore in Kitch-Gami park in Duluth last night. It was about 48 degrees and the water was a grey green color in real life. I wondered why the camera picked up the blue that we couldn't see. The seagulls thought we were bringing hand-outs and kept watchful… Continue reading Lake Superior Winnowing
~ We had a few days of hot summer, but the northland cool weather has returned. ~ Yesterday we put up a worktable in the sitting room down stairs under the AC for scrapbooking.~ And we took down a big, old bookcase in the process of making a workspace. Charlotte has dreams of painting… Continue reading Just Some Notes On Life At The Stone House
I am still learning about this. You'll notice I had used the carefully chosen phrase "constructive criticism". I don't care for criticism, to be honest with you. I have always worked very hard to conduct my life and manners in such a way to avoid criticism because of my aversion to it. Which has been… Continue reading Accepting Criticism
It was exactly one year ago to this very day that I posted about the chipmunks in the ceilings of our basement bedroom. The running, somers-sualts. back flips, slides, and squeaks over our heads began very early this morning around 2 AM. Words like infestation amd pestilence come to mind. Brad shot many chipmunks last… Continue reading Chipmunks Again
I just read Lucy’s blog again and was brought right up short…again. Her honesty always encourages me. She seems to have found the way to be honest and completely human without making us sort through the laundry so to speak. I think of a lot of things to blog: feelings, ideas, frustrations and struggles, but… Continue reading Graciousness
Today has been a good day of getting things done. Things other than what I had hoped to get done but that turned out to be okay. First I was going to plant garden. And we hoped to buy a few patio brick to replace the winter's crumbling of bricks. The garden needs to… Continue reading Accomplishments
One of the ways we know it is summer is that we cleaned a vacation home today. Summer cleaning jobs have begun. The lake shore was fascinating with the waves crashing on the beach in this wind. I would stand there and just watch them. But since we are paid by the hour I don't… Continue reading Summer Is Here
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