All Things Home and Family
Instead of the standard gift exchange at Christmastime this year we’re considering one gift for the family. Brad is the right age for the once in a life-time train set and the rest of us has good memories of other train sets of Christmases before. Years ago, Elv’s mother picked up a train set and… Continue reading Electric Train Set For Christmas
So I looked it up after one of you mentioned these lines…By the shining big sea water… from the Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By the shores of Gitche Gumee,By the shining Big-Sea-Water,Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.Dark behind it rose the forest,Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,Rose the… Continue reading By The Shores of Gitche Gumee…
I spent a couple days by Lake Superior this week. I took a lot of pictures trying to capture a little what the lake is to me. It’s hard to explain what it is that gets my complete attention at any moment or during any activity. I’d find myself standing in the middle… Continue reading Our Lake In Autumn
Maybe some of you have an idea of how impressed and happy and pleased I am with the completion of this project! Remember those old boards I was playing with last week? Well here they are installed and making us happy. Even Elv is convinced. I’m dreaming of sitting around a snapping fire with… Continue reading The Stove Is In
These old weathered boards are going to be on a wall in our house. I planed and sanded them till they began to be clean, but still quite rustic. Most of these have two coats of water-based varnish on them. And we think they’re beautiful. I won’t speak for Elv. He’s happy to let me… Continue reading More Fall Work
Fall work has begun here now. The new ceiling fan in the living room and the new hot water system in the basement are proofs of that. We have planned how to install a fireplace in the living room. We didn’t plan for a dead refrigerator. I am kind of glad now that it’s… Continue reading Improvements …
( Thanks, Lance, for this picture of the Split Rock Lighthouse on the North Shore of Lake Superior.) I have been trying to get this post on “paper” now for several days. With reunion pictures to sort and photo stories to create I have been distracted. Elv preached Sunday about David…the poet, the… Continue reading Cave Time
Summer's at the end: school books are ordered, it's cool outside, the garden is tired and full of surprises, and I'm getting the urge to make firewood. I promised Elv that if he'd bring home the firewood logs; Brad and I will make it all into stove wood. I love that work of "splitting and… Continue reading Summer’s Almost Over
We had a great reunion, with everything from tears and laugher to beard contests and water fights.Our family is spread out all over the US, from South Carolina to Idaho. I don't need to tell you how wonderful it is to be able to spend time with those who share your same roots, oddities, and… Continue reading Reunion
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