Family & Home

End of June Postcards

The canner has been running nearly every single day; often twice per day. The tomatoes are getting tall, the cucumber salads daily, and the pickles are fermenting by the gallon. Oh, and we have a potential watermelon farmer on our hands who also happens to be smitten by this baby sister of his. See you…

Mid-February Postcards

I had this huge long post I’ve been writing up all week but it’s still not ready and we’re still recovering from a house-wide head cold so I guess a few photos is all I’ve got this for this space this week. It’s time to plant potatoes and so the field of pea greens is…

Letting Them Help

Sometime early last year – before Hannah was born – I started doing something with the children that has kind of changed my life. I don’t throw phrases like that around a lot, but sometimes small decisions really do change the course of your days. This was one of them. For years I had struggled…