Prairie Garden

Nutmegg [mama] tagged me. I enjoyed reading her Quirks so much that I've decided to do my own. I tag anyone who is interested in complet...

September 2005 July 2008

Diego's current favorite song: We are zee rrrrro-bots!

My poor little Pumpkin was so tired this afternoon that he fell asleep mid-twist during a diaper change. Right before sleep took him over, h...

Yesterday, Diego was standing at his Play Table. I was nursing the baby when I hear some loud juicy farts clapping from his direction. He ...

Seriously. Pumpkin has been in the throes of teething his canines. Besides days-on-end of clinging, crying, and fever (poor thing), the only...

December 2007 2 months old Pulling himself to a stand at the play table today My sweet Pumpkin is almost 9 months old. Crawling, putting ...

Squeeze and I have an old joke from years back about bountiful harvests: before kids, when we had time, we enjoyed setting up postcard-like ...

My rough-and-tumble grandfather died this past weekend. He had been ailing for months, recovering only enough to take another fall or get ...

I am thirty years old, turning thirty-one this fall. As I get a bit older, it seems like my faults and short-comings are amplified. I can...

Starbeans named one of our friendly Dominique cockerels "Chicken Coop" yesterday.

Our BIL, who works in decorative concrete, completed Phase Two (or is that Three?) of our Kitchen Remodel. He did the counter tops , backsp...

Postcards from Italy

I made a fantastic rhubarb sauce sweetened only with chopped raisins. The original recipe [from my favorite cookbook, How to Cook Everythin...

Diego at almost 3 - Truen at 8 months My sweet little ones

Gasteria [unknown]

Our little Pumpkin can clap [as of yesterday] and he is mobile in a forward-direction , not just backwards or turning in circles. As of tod...

I was just walking down our long driveway yesterday, after visiting with my neighbor across the road; and I thought, "I live here? Rea...

Have you ever heard of peak dandelion season ? Yeah, me neither. But it exists. The soil in these sections of the farm site is extremely ...