Little House in Ohio, indeed

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Book I mentioned isn’t one of the wonderful children’s novels. It’s called Little House in the Ozarks: A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler: The Rediscovered Writings. It’s a collection of incredible articles she wrote for Farmer’s Week about her life on the farm and her social and political thoughts and inspirations. [...]

Requiem for winter

I never did show you the pictures of the big snow and the paths Chris cut through the yard to the animal shelters. This one is from the back deck to the chicken tractor in the woods.

and the big fun it made for Lila. We had a bit of a warm spell the week [...]

Sunday=screeching halt

I had such big plans for today, but man, I was drained. I even almost put the butter and cream cheese back in the fridge after I softened it for cupcakes. But I made myself power through the fatigue to make them, disastrous as all hell, but fine. They’re made.
I tried a Devil’s Food Cake [...]

A room with a view

I wish I had thought to take a before picture, because the after is lovely but the context is missing.

This is what I spent a good part of my Saturday afternoon working on. In order to get the corner writing desk to this state of order I had to move six boxes of paperwork and [...]

Another fold in the space-time continuum

How did it get to Friday again so quickly? Chris and I were talking last night about how pooped we are at the end of the day, how he was listening to a talk radio program about how that’s true for so many people. They work all day, get home and have nothing left. I [...]

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