Pleasant View Schoolhouse

For several weeks in a row I eyed this beauty at the thrift store without buying. Meanwhile, he was hanging out in the party supplies waitin...

Carol and I are the Cookout Queens, which is how we ended up grilling at the lake yesterday evening with the church youth group that yes, ha...

The girls and I invited over the eight Japanese students enrolled at the local university. We didn't know any of them, but my good frien...

Last month Giles was helping our neighbor move his science classroom from the old wing into the new part of the high school, and since the o...

I love it when the thrift store throws down the crewel-work gauntlet. "Here!" it says. "Take this piece of crazy handwork and...

Week in and week out, a small group of friends has come to our house on Wednesday nights to study the Bible and pray together. For, oh, abou...

Bella decided to make potato chips to go along with lunch. I tell you the girl is fearless in the kitchen! She worked from a recipe but quic...

I was going to make my grandmother's easy recipe, but when I realized that it called for a cup of sugar for each quart of cucumbers, and...

Many new goodies posted in the shop . Do you need a quilt? An apron? A bib or a tiny sugar and creamer set from the Army hospital?

. . . and the last for a little while. It seems like we picked everything that didn't blow down in the storm!

"She led him to a vine-clad porch where easy willow chairs and tables, a few books and a bit of sewing made it seem almost like an open...

Sweet friend Jody is a true farmgirl. She raises baby-face sheep, boutique goats, and assorted domestic fowl. And makes it look like so much...

Bella and I were triumphant (the field was small). This photo? My summer so far. A happy blur. Fun with the kids. Going just fast enough I t...

The deer don't eat this one either, but the butterflies do.

It is *always* worth it once you get out in the woods. All the bins, boxes, grocery shopping, and mildewed towels. A little trouble sleeping...

That's right, for a brief time I can pick them all at once. Then the blackberries come on . . . . My big kids are gone for the week, doi...

Never needs water and the deer don't eat it.

. . . just letting you know that I've posted a new scrap tote in bright apple green, a wall garland, and a luscious bed jacket in an ex...