Category Archives: Family

Happy Thanksgiving!!

As I’m getting older (and hopefully wiser) I seem to enjoy Thanksgiving more and more each year. Now I don’t know if it’s because we’re all getting older and the time together seems much more important these past years … … Continue reading

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Out Visiting

I had scheduled some time to visit someone in the Assisted Living Home tonight after work. She’s been helping me with a couple of projects that I’ve been working on and it’s been great! Not only has she given me … Continue reading

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First good snowfall of the year

We knew it was going to happen. It snowed in the afternoon yesterday and this morning we woke up to even more snow on the trees and roads. Now it was bound to happen right? But for some reason every … Continue reading

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Giddy up

Giddy up and here we go…. What is going on you ask? Well I finally made the commitment to make soap this weekend. See I’ve been literally talking about making soap for at least 15 years and I decided I either … Continue reading

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Good Boxes

A couple of years ago when I would see a box, I would think of it only as a box. Then when Kyle went off to college my perspective of boxes changed. What I mean by that is there are … Continue reading

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Supper tonight

Have you ever  set out some meat for supper and then think to yourself, geez I wish I didn’t thaw that out? As you can about imagine, that’s what happened to me tonight. I purposely thawed out some hamburger so … Continue reading

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From Plowing to Pinterest..

Today is Saturday and what a wide range of things are on our plates for the day. Daryl wanted to get the plow out and do some moldboard plowing. Now isn’t that a crazy name for a piece of equipment? … Continue reading

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Friday – VACATION DAY!

Oh yea, Life is Good! I decided to take a vacation day today to get my head wrapped around just what I want to get done for the upcoming Holidays. Now every year I make these outrageous plans to do … Continue reading

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Family Traditions

I had a chance today to snap a couple of pictures of our trees that we had planted on our farm tonight after work. I know that they won’t stay this way too long with the wind that we’re having, … Continue reading

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Girls day out

Daryl got done with beans and had them hauled into the Co-op late last night, so today he was going to ‘open the field’ and take the first rounds of corn out. This way he can see if the combine … Continue reading

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