I didn’t really plan on hosting a bbq on the 4th of July. The lawn hasn’t been mowed, I didn’t have a much food in the fridge, bbq’s out of propane, no decorations or fun things planned. But when some friends were all excited about getting together to celebrate, we pulled it together and bbq’d [...]
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Third Summer for the Stock Tank Pool
The time has come again to prepare the stock tank pool for another summer. It will be our third year with it already! It’s weathered in nicely, I’ve made some adjustments to the connections, mixed up the ways I treated the water, thought about and against many further adjustments, and fielded a number of email [...]
Happy When it Rains
I like the rain. Especially after I cleared the gutter that was funneling water right onto the back door threshold and into the house.
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I can’t find one stamp!!!
Or so I yelled yesterday when I was trying to find a stamp. Just one stamp! I know I had some pine cone stamps in here! Whhyyy?! I’m all geared up for some serious spring time cleaning and organizing projects around the house. I’m making lists, room by room, of all the things to do. [...]
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Sewing by Hand
I’ve been taking up the thread and needle to sew by hand. Some mending, a par of doll pants, here and there. It would be easier to gather up all the mending, grab the sewing machine, get it threaded, and work my way through the pile. But sewing a tear is about more than fixing [...]
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Thrift Score :: A Deposit Rather Than a Withdrawal
It’s not often that I take a whole trunk full of things TO the thrift store, especially when I end of bringing nothing home. My big project of the year is to clear out the extraneous items in the house, the single purpose tools, the decorative things taking up space for no reason, the storage [...]
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Winter Mornings
Even though we’ve had some sunshine over the last couple of days, it still feels frigid. The grass is awfully icy in the mornings, I see the neighbors scraping off their windshields. Love having room in the garage for the car, I do not miss early morning winter windshield scraping. Not having to take off [...]
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Circa 2010
Ever started up your photo software and spend two hours reminiscing, marveling about how tiny your babies used to be? I got stuck in there for awhile when I was looking at all that we had photos of this year. I picked a few to share that I took with instagram.
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The Light in the Lantern
Putting The Light in the Lantern back on the shelf for the year. Every night during advent, I set up a tiny chair in the hallway between both children’s rooms, light a candle, and read a chapter. They’re two or three pages long each, so it’s just a few more minutes of stories each evening. [...]
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