Summer! With all the bike riding, yard races, swimming, picnics, swings and sliding there are still times when kids get bored. I am a HUGE believer in letting them be bored. They eventually use their imaginations, make up games, find a book to read, or bake cookies. If you are looking for a little more […]
Chocolate Kisses
Ah summer! Where has your first month gone? It seems like you are flying away too quickly. So much to do, so much to experience, and all at double time. For instance, yesterday was a very important day in history. VERY IMPORTANT. Do you know what happened on July 7, 1550? EUROPEANS DISCOVERED CHOCOLATE!!! Up […]
Lightning Sparked Wildfire
This is the view from our house tonight before going to bed. The dim lights just left of center is my sister-in-law’s house. The three lights just right of center are our shops. A little too close for comfort! Here’s a closer look at the fire above my sister-in-law’s house (the two dots at lower […]
Sights of Summer
Summer. The word used to mean swimming at the neighbor’s pool, chasing fireflies, red Georgia mud squishing between my toes. Now I associate summer with swimming in the redneck pool, crazy farm work hours, and in the early summer stories of fawns and baby antelope being accidentally mown up. Ganache was telling the fawn hello. […]
Sweet Ol’ Summertime
Summer seems to be officially over. Kind of. We just started swathing {mowing} our fourth crop of hay which means a very busy time for the next two to three weeks. The weather is definitely beginning to change. The evenings cool down so by morning it is downright chilly outside. In the heat of summer […]
Wordfull Wednesday: Favorite Summer Memory
SUMMER The word conjures up so many wonderful memories! There isn’t one magical summer that is my favorite, rather there are snippets, myriads of snippets. sparklers on Independence Day watching the Days of ’47 parade with cousins, aunts, and uncles dressing as a pioneer and marching in our own Primary neighborhood parade practicing the “Dead […]
First Wildfire of the Season
Two days after our Independence Day celebration we had a great lesson on why we didn’t do any fireworks! Semisweet had just returned from an evening jog when Mr. Ferrero Rocher took off to check the pivots. Within those two minutes of Semisweet returning before Mr. FR left a small brush fire was started. We […]
Independence Day BBQ
We had a great Independence Day celebration. Relaxed. No stress (meaning no fireworks). Good company (family). The kids were a bit disappointed we didn’t do any fireworks but safety overruled.We had such a wet spring the weeds grew ridiculously well. In some spots they are taller than Special Dark who is four. Now that summer […]
Mini Patriotic Pinatas
Easy Patriotic Mini Pinatas to make with your kids for Independence Day!
Red, Red Raspberries
Raspberries are my favorite fruit. I love the rich red color, the burst of flavor that fills your mouth when you pop one in straight from the bush, and homemade raspberry jam. The girls and I went on an outing back to our old hometown of Fallon just so we could pick raspberries from Lattin […]
Reap What You Sow
I love this time of year when the garden harvest begins to be plentiful. After all the work of preparing the soil, watering, weeding, weeding, and watering it’s a joy to see the fruits of your labors, especially when your children are involved. The delight on their faces when they find a hidden bean under […]
What Freedom Means to Me
Every year our local Lions Club hosts an essay contest for Junior and High School students on the topic “What Freedom Means to Me.” Bon Bon decided to enter. She sat at the computer for ten minutes and typed the following out. She won first place! We went to the Lions Club 4th of July […]
Tie Dyed T-Shirts
The summer reading program with our local library has officially begun. We are very lucky to have the bookmobile come to our house every other Monday. During the reading program there is an activity for the kids to do every time it comes. The first week they colored their own hacky-sack balls. This past Monday […]
Make hay while the sun shines
How’s your summer break coming along? Ours has been interesting so far. See this? Those are rain clouds. Usually a very rare sight here in Nevada. Usually. We’ve had them everyday for the past two weeks. I love the rain. In Georgia I used to curl up with a good book, a big bag of […]
Wordfull Wednesday: Memorable Family Vacation
Summer 1994. My parents rented an RV to take our family on one last “family vacation” before I got married in December. I loved every minute of it. We drove north from Georgia heading towards Palmyra, NY with some major stops on the way. We visited Washington D.C., taking in several of the Smithsonian Museums, […]