All Things Home and Family
What if God had been as frugal at creation as we tend to be with each other. How fragrant and colorful would the world's flowers be?What if God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and all the other riches of our earth, had decided to keep them in His bank account instead of… Continue reading Extravagance Just Because
Yes, the winter blues are here! We are having to pull along steadily with more effort. Brad has been faithfully building fire over a huge heap of ash build-up which makes stoking a chore. The house is chilly well into the morning. We are inclined to complain. We take turns checking the thermostat. "Did somebody… Continue reading The Winter Blues
We all have them, don't we? It's that time of year when suddenly we realize that it's been cold for a long time. We've been making fires, hauling wood, and wearing sweaters indoors for months now. The sad snow has become definite strata. Any new snow looks like frosting on a marble cake and there's… Continue reading The Winter Blahs
The canner exploded for me today. Brad and I were downstairs studying in Mom's Sitting Room enjoying a cozy fire when we heard a loud clattering overhead. My first thought were that the girls were doing something unwise with serious results of a wall falling in or something. Which proves that my thought processes were… Continue reading In Praise of Pressure Canners
We woke up to snow falling this morning. It's a wet, heavy snow...the kind that cause half-dead overweighted branches to come crashing down startling us out of our hypnosis watching the stuff falling past our windows. The few adventurous cars go by with a muffled sloshing. It's a perfect day for the quiet turning of… Continue reading Sunday Morning Musings
We had a grand Christmas vacation and everything was going along smoothly during the holidays until Elv's back "went out". One evening while we eating supper, the back of his chair fell off. UH! he caught himself. He caught everything but that one little vertebrate in his back which seems to have been left behind… Continue reading Another Thing Happening At Home
We're going through a lot of firewood. Lance and Brad know how much since they do all the hauling, splitting, and and the boiler fire fixing. Brad keeps the basket by our sitting room stove full of dry oak and tamarack wood which I really enjoy this winter. For a fresh new fire I have… Continue reading What’s Happening At Home
Take the time to create something beautiful for someone today. A coffee shop worker in Chiang Mai had time to decorate a simple cup of coffee for Lisl yesterday. It's the little flowers we strew in the paths of others that make life livable for both the giver and the… Continue reading Time for Flowers
There are plenty of unhappy things in the world to think about...even in our own families, I suppose, if you go looking for them. I am in the mood to concentrate on the delights of life this time. One of the first of those delights I wish to mention is that Jenny and Gabe come… Continue reading Happy Things For You
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