• mike and junebugg evening at the lake
    Dog,  Family,  Lifestyle

    A Melancholy Visit

    We took a brief road trip to our place up on the lake to check on things. It was a short, overnight stay. We can’t stay away from the homestead very long because….you know….chickens and turkeys. Having livestock puts quite a damper on any impromptu trips away. If we need…

  • cleaned closet
    Dog,  Lifestyle

    I Had To Do It

    When we did, as the Master of the House would describe, “the remodeling project from hell” about 24 years ago, we purchased Kolbe and Kolbe windows. Not what I wanted to buy though. I wanted Andersen windows because we had such good luck with them previously and they are or…

  • Junebugg on the southern hill
    Dog,  Nature

    Another Day Another…

    Perimeter check! I took a few pictures of some things I would not have seen if Junebugg and I hadn’t gone up on the hill for her sniff therapy. Click on the picture to open the gallery. Colossians 1:16For through him God created everythingin the heavenly realms and on earth.He…

  • Snow covered hill with blue sky
    Faith and Spirituality,  Nature

    February Taunt

    February has been allowing quite a few consecutive days of spring weather to tease us. Happily, the groundhog didn’t see his shadow so I certainly could believe that this weather is our early spring. Now I don’t deny that thought is unrealistic but one can dream, right? Junebugg and I…

  • Animals,  Humor,  Weather

    Poor Little Chickadee

    I looked out the an upstairs bedroom window the morning after one of our big snowstorms. I saw in the tree a little chickadee that was covered in snow. I thought how sad! This poor chickadee had to withstand the snowstorm hanging on a tree branch for dear life and…

  • snow-covered cedar tree in field
    Homesteading,  Weather

    Oh My Goodness!

    The January 12-13 2024 Blizzard The snowfall total that the storm dropped over a 2 day period was 16 inches by us! 😮 I do not believe I have ever experienced a snowstorm with that much snowfall. If I have I don’t remember. Wind speeds were 15 mph with gusts…

  • Black pole barn in snowstorm
    Dog,  Faith,  Homesteading,  Poultry,  Scripture

    Round One

    This morning is the first round of a two-round snowstorm. In the early morning hours of this morning, the impending snowstorm that we have been warned about for a few days now has arrived. Waking up to several inches of fallen snow with more currently falling was not surprising. Round…

  • Lifestyle,  Miscellaneous

    Back To The Future

    Project for 2024 completed in 2023. 🥴 Wonderment! I threw out a lot of unnecessary stuff. Why on earth was I keeping all that? I sometimes struggle to control my hoarding tendencies. I wish I could say this is the only project on the 2024 agenda, but it isn’t. There…

  • Lifestyle

    Resolutions

    When you lose your mind while frantically looking for that thing you need to take to the family Christmas party and now you have to start your New Year’s resolution earlier than you wanted to. Isaiah 38:17  Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your…

  • me in post-op
    Health

    Round Two

    It hurt, but only for a moment. The outcome is worth it. Unfortunately, the steroid injection I had in my lower back to relieve the pain that was done in May had worn off somewhere around the beginning of October. I had put it off long enough and now time…