All Things Home and Family
These before and after pictures don’t say the half of what was needed and what happened. I didn't’ realize how badly the walls needed painting until Elv put the stove in this room. I took the opportunity to try what I have been seeing in pictures…to paint in rich colors instead of… Continue reading Cabin Rooms
Have you been following the Chilean rescue? I start to feel claustrophobic just hearing about it. But last night while they were finally getting the rescue underway I thought how the Bible says that on that last day there will be folks wishing the rocks would fall on them. Now these 33 men have been… Continue reading The Great Rescue
He had a new, blue, GMC pickup with a camper for traveling. He liked to travel. He especially liked to travel if he had a camper load of grandchildren. ( It was rather terrible riding back there in the camper. I always kept my nose smashed to the front window to avoid feeling claustrophobic.)… Continue reading Remembering My Grandpa
* Beautiful fall days. * Leaves to rake. * Brad doing his school work in record time. * New grandbabies. * Sunday afternoon singing times. * Photography worth framing. * Wood stoves to keep us warm in winter.
How To Tell The Difference Concern 1. something that affects or is of importance to a person; affair; business2. regard for or interest in a person or a thing he felt a strong concern for her3. anxiety, worry, or solicitude4. important bearing or relation his news has great concern for us Complaint noun1.… Continue reading Concern…or Complaint
9/24/10 Evening at Two Lakes Campground. Our camp is on Owen Lake. Before dark we enjoyed the brilliant yellows of the hardwoods against the wet and blackened tree trunks with the rippling water behind. It’s rather chilly out doors tonight. I am wearing my sweater, socks and shoes. Feels quite cozy. Listening to Pickin’… Continue reading Anniversary Camping @ Two Lakes Campground
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…
