Prairie Garden

Today is the day. We are almost totally packed up: this morning will be finishing it off and completing the remaining cleaning jobs. We slep...

Closing on our new farmstead will be postponed until sometime next week, now for two reasons: Verification of Employment. Because Squeeze w...

Well, Squeeze got the job he was after. We couldn't be more pleased . The only hitch: we need a Verification of Employment letter faxed ...

Our house is starting to feel less like home, now that we have boxes piled around everywhere. All of our wall-hangings are down, the lamps a...

What the World Eats I ran into this through another blog that I peek at now and then. It is so interesting! I've seen some of these pict...

We are having an extremely dry June here in Minneapolis. We are avoiding watering in the attempt to conserve on water; in fact, I've ...

I let one of our cats in yesterday after she was so annoyingly scratching at the door. [We have been letting them out now, in preparation f...

Squeeze bought Starbeans an inflatable pool while we were at my parents' house. It is the best - we [both] love it. After 4 hot hours in...

I really am alive. We spent 8 hours in the car in two days. It was terrible and it was hot. No air conditioning, temps hovering around 90 ...

My goodness. It has been a long time since I've posted. I'm alive and well, but too busy to get near a computer. I can imagine it wi...

Starbeans' older cousin, Mari, gave him a realistic baby doll this last weekend, called "Lucy". Her head is hard and floppy an...

I can't wait until the current fashion of HUGE t-shirts and ENORMOUS pants and shorts dissipates. The teenage boys in our area look so s...

We signed the purchase agreement on our home last night. Our closing date is scheduled for Friday, June 29th. Wow. This is really going to h...

Where diapers hang to dry in the spring, summer, & fall Where diapers hang to dry in the winter (in the basement) Today is 16 weeks - ...

Starbeans ' hair is curling up into little ringlets with more moisture in the air, giving me all the more reason to delay the inevitable...

I don't own a microwave. I don't own a dishwasher. I do own a television. I read a lot more before Starbeans was born. I'm getti...

Published by Garden Way Publishing in 1983: Food Drying: How to Dehydrate, Store and Use Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs 5/3 update: I bought ...

Starbeans started doing the cutest thing within the last couple of weeks. He brings his dolls into me to nurse them, saying, "Mee! Mee!...

I heard the local Ice Cream Man going by again this weekend, playing, O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, How lovely are your branches!