Prairie Garden

Vats of applesauce Scads of potatoes (115 lbs) - the fingerling, La Ratte! Tomatoes up the wazoo - sauce, salsa, soup Green tomatoes under p...

After a pleasant work day with a friend - with an evening break for berry-picking - 60 lbs of tomatoes and a variety of peppers and garlic a...

Did I really just spend over an hour perusing Facebook while my children were sleeping when I should have been hanging laundry, making break...

Some how, some way, this little turkey wakes up an hour and a half into his nap, pretty much on the dot. On the dot. How?? But the better ...

The stats: 20 lbs of Concord grapes, now grape jam (done with Pomona's Universal Pectin with 1/4 of the amount of sweetener, so you can...

My cousins' cousin plays the upright bass in this stringband, Pert' Near Sandstone. I've been listening to them the last week a...

My brother and SIL were here all last week, with Meeeeeeeellllviiiiiiin ; with another brother and cousin here last weekend. Their visits ov...

Two interesting links: First off, check out this story about a preemie born unexpectedly at 24 weeks due to an infection of the womb. She h...

These pictures were taken well over a month ago; but, in spite of their age, are well-worth posting. The sky was the most spectacular shades...

Diego says, "Skeeter Bikes", instead of Speeder Bikes "Damana", instead of banana "Audweady", instead of al...

Aside from being a little flummoxed about my un-announcement , I truly am okay with not being pregnant. A few people have asked me if I...

So, in light of my last post , albeit rather dramatic . . . ahem . . . I'd like to un-announce my pregnancy. Yes, that is correct. The f...

9 years married + 13 years together + 11 weeks NOT pregnant = TOTAL DWEEB Happy Anniversary!

Head on over to my SIL's blog, " Rock Garden " for an in-depth photo montage from some big family events. That sibs picture ...

Two girls, three boys The girls in "bookend" position in birth order Brown-eyed boys - Blue-eyed girls e/infp, enfp, istp, infp, ...

KT, tell Luuuuuuke; and Amy, tell RC.  Shooooot, Dist - if you're looking at this, tell T. Spence, too.  (I don't think Runyan ever ...

It is downright sweltering in Western WA.  Seriously.  Haaaaaaaaaaaat. I don't have much else to say other than that.  We've been sp...

Here I sit, enjoying the silence, with my mom asleep behind me and my boys sawing logs above me, and my lover 1,300 miles away.  And all I c...

At home, in Western WA "More later"