Back in the ending of May or the beginning of June, I jotted my thoughts and closed my notebook and promptly forgot as I’m apt to do and as that is a busy season for us, I gladly grab that excuse. Recently, I reach for my notebook and randomly open it and read my words. […]
Memoir Monday {No. 80}
Cultivating Beauty ~ I keep thinking about it this month, thanks to the category for July in the Choose Gratitude journal. Fresh peaches ~ they’ve been so yummy! Sweet Corn! From our grassy corn patch. It’s Incredible! Literally. That’s the kind we mostly plant and our favorite. My sister-in-law shared green beans with us on […]
In Which We Meet the Atlantic
Kansas is a long ways from the Atlantic. But we’d packed and prepared and prayed and looked forward to departure with much anticipation and expectation. We’d flipped through honeymoon pictures and remembered and we mapquested and traced routes on a real map. We’d lined up pet-sitters and buttoned things at home up as best […]
Instapost {July No.1}
I sat down yesterday and I messed with pictures. I put this off at times, because it’s never a ten minute thing. It’s always a minimum of an hour. I just can’t start with pictures and be done quickly. I love my pictures. My dear man loves looking at our pictures. {When he gets […]
A Tractor and a Sprayplane
My farmer man was in the tractor and he was disking the small field right close to the house, giving me the opportunity to glance out my windows and see the tractor steadily working away. Presently, I heard another engine and after hearing it a time or two I stepped to the window once again […]
Make Me a True Woman, Lord
Lord, I want right thinking, I want to know what’s true, Lord, I need discernment, I need your wisdom too. I want to be a woman, So grounded in the Word, I want to be your woman, To listen! To have heard. Lord, I want to study, To know it inside out, To recognize wrong-thinking, […]
Yarn Along, Lilla Rose Sale Extended, and Books
I love how pretty yarn is. It’s so cheery. I like how I can just lay my knitting down and it fits in as part of the decor. I finished the other dishcloth from last week and need to thread the ends in and package them up and send off to my giveaway winner. I started […]
Outside and On the Porch
I’m hoping to eventually have some plants along the south and back of our porch. I picked up a few at Wal-Mart right at the beginning of harvest. They were clearancing everything out, so I decided to snag a few and stick them in. I’m trying a couple of hydrangeas. Not sure how they’re going […]
Memoir Monday {No. 79}
Oreo Ice Cream Starfish decor in Renae’s room Gray days and flickering candle fun to shoot pretty pictures cultivating beauty Renae working on summer banner Spraying time Ring braided into hair Beauty in everyday kitchen prep Rhubarb Pie ~one of my man’s faves Garden hose Forecasting rain? Didn’t think so. Boots on porch. Thunderstorm. Soaked […]
Blessed Be Thy Name Forever
I waded out into the surf and I gazed across the rolling waves. The salt air whispered softly and the waves rolled and broke, soaking into the shore, pulled swiftly back to be replaced by the next one rolling in. Majestic. Magnificent. I bent to swish my fingers through the foam and watch the water […]
The Kind of Pictures You Really Don’t Want During Harvest
We were headed to the field with supper on a Friday evening during harvest. I remembered that I’d forgotten silverware and being a considerate person and assuming the partakers of said harvest meal might prefer to have a spoon to use, rather than their fingers to eat potatoes and corn with, I swung into my in-laws’ […]
It Was A Birthday Party
I feel like looking at party pictures again! This was a birthday party for a friend. Maybe in 2008? Yes, it was. I went and checked. We served Strawberry Lemonade and adding fruit to the glasses was a fun and pretty thing. And went well with the beverage! This was just an afternoon party with […]
Yarn Along ~ Dishcloth Giveaway, Lime Crochet Spa Cloth, and Coco’s Candy Shop
Linking up with Ginny for Yarn Along and over at Wool on Sundays ~ Good Morning ~ Another Yarn Along! I finished my pinky/coral dishcloth from last week’s Yarn Along! Hooray! And I started on another one with this variegated yarn. I can never decide which I like better. Solids or variegated. I’ll think […]
Darling Kittens
We adopted a stray kitten last year, that showed up at one of our aunts’ house. My kiddos named her O’Malley and she’s been a really good cat. Right after we returned from Hatteras, she blessed our farm with three of the cutest kittens to be born here in a long, long time!! Simply darling. {As […]
Memoir Monday {No. 78}
First things first. Cooper is happy to announce two giveaways that you should pop in and enter. This one over at Sew a Fine Seam ~ She is celebrating her third anniversary for Sew a Fine Seam as a business and is giving away the winner’s choice of a HOME t-shirt and also giving […]
The Wheat Is Cut
Every stalk has been cut. Well, practically. There’s always a few that get missed or run close along the edge of the field, left to wave in the wind until the disk starts in. Every bushel has been hauled. Kernels so small when by themselves or in groups of two or three or twelve. […]
