Pleasant View Schoolhouse

In the last week I've developed a fresh wind of enthusiasm for housekeeping. It's been a couple of years since I looked at my ...

Daisy *owns* her own goat now. Dixie Trixx. We have five other goats here that we care for but this one belongs to Daisy and can'...

Episode 1:  Mabel arrives in an agitated state, begins to settle down nicely in the role of expectant Jersey cow getting comfy in the p...

Even if my garden all died in the night, it would still be the best one I've had in years. Baskets of green beans, bowls of blackbe...

Pieced back in September, this quilt  was finished just this week. My mother hand-quilted it for me, pausing for an elbow replacement, a...

Today I burned the candle at both ends--first the end that goes to  professional development (otherwise known as six hours of em...

I hate to tell on Felix, but when he left for the summer, he left his room in a real state. It's true that he had just fifteen hou...

The girls and I just got back from a camping and floating trip. Camping these days is very low-effort with these enthusiastic and skillf...

Clara during her voice lesson, in the  jersey dress  I made last summer. It's a bigger size than she wears, but a matching thrift s...

These were growing in my garden: so we picked them and made this:  and then ate it out here:

Because it is delicious and cheap and easy, healthy, gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegetarian . . . if you need all that. *Black Bean Sk...

I love my custom version of the Alabama Chanin six-gore dress. Ten inches longer, raised neckline. If I cut this dress out of thr...

Because you get a lot more done with a parrot on your knee.

It was a good day to work on the ferns, being damp . . . and green . . . and ferny outside. I took several plants out on the back porch and...

I don't see the "Ferns" stencil from  Alabama Chanin  used very much, and I understand why--it is a pain to cut out! But i...