All Things Home and Family
Amy posted about choices and finding joy and contentment wherever we are today. Read it here. She did a grand job of saying it well. The quote at the top of her post set me back just a little. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as… Continue reading Good Taste Matters
Does any of you recognize this building? Our family, the Skrivseths, do. Too tired tonight to explain...just home from a weekend with "The Aunties" as Trenda and I dubbed them, but till later, here is a teaser.7/10/11 Okay, I'm back. It's the little Mennonite Church in Graceton, Minnesota. The doors have been closed for years… Continue reading A Little Old Church
This is a Canada AnemoneThis is the cabin right now. Watchers while Elv and I worked on building a usable outhouse. I didn't post a picture of that important edifice.Then we went down to the shore and enjoyed the lake for an hour.I combed the beach for fairy tears and found a few, too. The… Continue reading Weekend In Pictures, My Version
My mom has a birthday in a day or two and will be one year older. I bet you thought I was going to say how old she is. Not me. Mom is forever young in a lot of ways.Mom teaches us to enjoy work. Work is therapy. Work is a healer. Work gets your… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Mom
We had a picnic last night at the Ojibwa Park with our two nieces from Sahth Cahrahlahnah. They take a lot of ribbing for their drawl. But, they pass it right back so it is okay. They brought a real watermelon for us. Let's have none of your wimpy, seedless tastless versions. This is the… Continue reading Sunday Evening Picnic
~ Havilah Glory was born this morning in Thailand to Dru and Lisl Lattin. The name is creating some interest and exclamation in our world. Is it my fault for naming Lisl such an unusual name...maybe I started something? Aunt Eva called me when Lisl was three days old and said, "Don't you dare change… Continue reading This Day In June
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
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