With Great Joy

Hello, dear friends. I hope you are all well.  (Today it seems I have time to put up a blog post!) We finished school over a month ago. ...

from when we planted, just six weeks ago:    to this:

We planted our garden one week ago: Our garden right after planting.  What was green then: Isaac's volunteer pickling cucu...

Vegetables The country vegetables scorn To lie about in shops, They stand upright as they were born In neatly-patterned crops; ...

Hello friends, I hope all of you are well! We are so enjoying this lovely spring weather we're having.  It's been positively...

We just wrapped up our first day of school.  We're easing into it this year, so we aren't doing every single subject this first week...

I know fall isn't *officially* here- and the weather around these parts is decidedly more summer (except for the nights and early mornin...

Everyone seems to be heading back to school this week. Not us, though. We're drying fruit.  ( That's school, right?  The girls a...

{ Found this in my drafts folder from last week.  I'd forgotten to post it.  So here it is, a week later. } Two days ago I went out t...

Several months ago I told Mark that one of my goals this summer was to add beauty to our backyard.  Our first big project was our cottage si...

We picked blueberries this week. Audra picked 14 berries (exactly: she counted) and then declared that I should fill up her bucket while s...