All Things Home and Family
It's late Saturday night. The house is clean, the lawn mowed, the garden freshly tilled, and Elv put a lot of tools, canoes, and stuff away. He took the trash away and washed the pickup too. In short we had a perfect Saturday finished off with rain.Next week, Frances starts Drivers Ed. I admit that… Continue reading Saturday Evening
We went to the wild life refuge over by Granstburg last Sunday. Crex Meadows is home to thousands of birds. We saw a few of them including swans, ducks, eagles, osprey, sandhill cranes, and a lot of little birds. When we got home we spent considerable time looking at our pictures and trying to identify… Continue reading Crex Meadows and Other Adventures
The local fire departments met with a few trucks in Hayward last weekend for a few hours to recruit more volunteers.
I have cleaned cabins this week. Tuesday's cabin was built over a hundred years ago. When you drive up through the tree lined lane you see a low lying log structure with four stone chimneys. There are two screened in porches and the front door is fronted by one of these. The door is solid… Continue reading The Cabin By The Lake
Yes, we're cooking and eating outside again. Summer came with a bang and now it's time to plant the garden and flower beds.
This is what a Make The Cut program can do for scrapbooking. All those daises are programed by my computer then sent to the Cricut to cut. MTC means that now we can cut any shape or font we find. Having taken on the project of scrapbooking every single picture we have… Continue reading A Page Of The Big Project
Elv and the children's gifts to me for Mother's Day. I feel rather blessed and spoiled. The roses are awesome.
That's snow coming down today. We have potatoes planted and there are blossoming strawberries under the tarps. The forecast is calling for 2 to 4 inches of snow. We hope that the almost blooming lilacs don't become discouraged. But it's moisture so we're not really complaining. … Continue reading Snow In May
Mom holding her youngest grandchild. She is also a great-grandmother to two almost three of our grandchildren. And I remember when she was 24! Mom is a good mom to all nine of us. She prays for us everyday and tries to talk to each of us every week either… Continue reading Mother’s Day
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