Pleasant View Schoolhouse

The library's sale shelves. I've gotten some great stuff for very little, and I enjoy supporting the library. I try to stop and...

The girls and I went camping at a Dark Sky state park and *finally* learned the constellations once and for all (I hope). Many daff...

All is well here--I've been without photo capability for the last month as my photo processor (the Composer) has been working every...

Why was winter never my favorite season? The light is so beautiful--the long shadows, the low sun, the golden woods.

A few weeks ago a tiny, teenincey (as we say in the South) kitten showed up on the back porch. He was almost too small to eat crunchy ca...

Strictly speaking, when these pictures were taken, baby August was still in the hospital. But he is at the Stone House now, thri...

Today was one of those too-warm and too-waspy days that come right before the weather changes. Felix was over part of the day so...

My mother's neighbor had a garage sale and passed on the leftovers--so I got this sweet hooked rug which Fitzwilliam loves to settle...

We did our first day of dog-sitting baby Lily and everything went SO well. She's much better behaved than any puppy I have known. I...

Felix and Molly have acquired a collie puppy named Lily. She'll be staying with us on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. ...

We've loved our manual typewriter in the past, but I was recently given something that outshines them all--an early electric mode...

"Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good is, and walk in it." That's right, we're using a rotary landline as...

"Does this make me look like a one-man band?" Clara asks as she heads out to teach piano . . . and cello . . . and violin. ...

I accidentally checked out a library book on making your own bath and body products. It's called Little House Living  and it's ...

We're in the dog days of summer now, and the cats are spending much of their time indoors in the air conditioning. We do our garden...

June looks like this.  It also looks like cars to buy, insurance policies to deal with, paperwork to complete, tree trunks to cut u...

Daisy's piano teacher is also a church organist, so she was able to begin organ with her today! Little sandals, big sound. ...

Saturday night a raging thunderstorm rolled in. At 1:00 a.m. I heard the loudest crack of lightning I ever remember. A few minutes later...

Whew! I have been fully occupied with a houseful for the last few days. The young adults gathered over the weekend for a barn raising o...

I was winning the Sister lottery this week as she had chosen my velvet chair for her naps. Sadly it looks like things have moved to ...