Prairie Garden

It appears my blogging has been cut back to twice a year. I'm not even going to go into my lack of solitude or "free time". ...

I've spent the last 4-5 months recovering from respiratory viruses resulting in pneumonia that took me out for the entire month of Novem...

Eegads. I kept a blog once. Life at our house continues to up the ante.  I am chagrined to look at my previous Booklists, even from as rec...

I am in the full-thrust of harvest - fermenting, drying, canning, freezing - and have been going hard for a month or more.  It has been a...

Food preservation plans. The 2017-2018 school year. Going for the gold on that beautiful, very functional Etsy chalkboard. The ensuing o...

UN. We had another tooth almost knocked out by an elbow during a bout of rough play this afternoon. (Jamie's.) (Front right.) (Hanging b...

I had a moment of homeschooling bliss the other day, a moment of such beauty. We were in the garden planting onions. (Yes! The fellas plan...

I sing this to the little guys almost every day as we snuggle down for nap time.  LOVE.  It is a beautiful song, a beautiful poem. ...

Unbelievable. It appears that my new habit is posting every two months. I'm like a broken record . . . I don't have time for reflect...

It's been more than two month since I've posted . . . oh my.  Since then my grandma has died, our new little nephew Otto was born, I...

I'm getting a little obsessed with the current folk song for our little homeschool.  It is piquant and haunting; I'm feeling the ...

Two amazing things happened this morning while reading The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice to the boys out loud during Circle Time this ...

Seriously.  It is the end of October.  Unbelievable. This fall has been a bit of a whirlwind.  We traveled to the Twin Cities twice in les...

Preserving: Tomato products: salsa, ketchup, paste, puree Other canned goals: tomatillo salsa, watermelon rind pickles, apple sauce Dryi...

Oh yes.  It has been summer. A few words. Visited Western WA for most of July Drove there and back (would do it again) Working toward ...

Of all the things.  Cat care has been all but ignored in the last 10 years in our household, but there have been several recent bumps in the...

It has been 90 degrees F for the last two days, which prompted me to finallllly start the seasonal clothing shift and get the boys' summ...

 Truen snuggling with this year's goslings. Sadly, they all vanished one sunny Saturday morning. We are almost positive it was co...

This is what Jamie said this morning as he was scraping out the bottom of an almost-empty honey jar that he had pulled off the counter.  I t...

Have I really not posted in almost three weeks?  Good grief.  This calls for a good old fashioned list post. My daily wake-up time hovers ...