All Things Home and Family
Elv's family is going to be here for Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday after the Day. If they all come there will about 29 people here. We plan to seat all of us around the table using china and goblets. For those of you worried about having to do dishes half the afternoon; we've got that… Continue reading Thanksgiving and Christmas
This picture is a tentative admission on my part that life is going on... That this family has adjusted to our new shape and size...we think. We like having fewer loads of laundry and more space for our earthly goods in our little old stone house. We like the smaller table.We didn't like the loss… Continue reading Life Goes On
We spent Monday working the apples into cider with this press. It was steady but enjoyable work washing, cutting, and pressing out the cider. We are looking forward to many winter evenings of games and cider by the fire. Cider and fudge. Cider and doughnuts. Come join us.
We picked apples today for cider. My friend and I took our children and gathered 30 plus bushels of them. Will that make a lot of cider? This was the first time of picking apples for some of our children so they considered this an adventure as opposed to work. Since there has been frost… Continue reading
Of Attitudes and Prerogatives How many of you have had to remind business or medical professionals of your prerogatives? Or am I the only one who runs into this? Here's my newest scenario. Elv burned his hand on the welder exhaust yesterday while working around his pickup. Joe, the Nortrax mechanic who was also on… Continue reading What Do You Do?
We had a bear wander into our local grocery store last night. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/64651987.htmlWe have had bears wander through our Northwoods lawn many times. I took a picture of this bear on his foray through here last summer. This kind of thing is so frequent that we have lost our respect and fear of them to… Continue reading Wild Beasts In The Land
Amy says, "Mom we're gonna have so much fun next spring with all these leaves mixed in the snow!"It won't be fun. The leaves are on the trees instead of carpeting the ground like proper fall leaves by this time. There's a mixture of snow and leaves and now more snow falling. Amy's predictions imply… Continue reading Winter in October
Elv and I took the travel trailer and went "camping" on Black Lake last weekend. It was the nicest get-away we've ever had! The campground was very quiet...all the families with school children have returned to the city for school and work. It's too cold for swimmers, and only dedicated fishermen would camp in late… Continue reading The Nicest Anniversary Get-Away Yet!
Sometimes people ask me if they may read my journal. So far I have always declined them the privilege. Oh I wouldn't mind if they read the fun things, the nice parts, or the pages that have plenty of Hallelujah's on them. But there's the hard parts: conflicts, worries, and the recordings of my not… Continue reading The Hard Parts
The girls hosted a tea party a couple weeks ago. The enjoyment and delight that I felt while all this was happening came as a surprise to me. I had been focusing on getting the lawn and the house just right so much that I failed to anticipate how much of a celebration of womanhood… Continue reading Garden Tea
Stone House Scribblings 