Lucia, my 8-year-old daughter, read this quote to me this week as it was part of her copywork for school. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt Right away, I copied it onto our chalkboard to read daily. What a fabulous piece of advice! So often we long for […]
I love to get up early before the household wakes. Mornings are busy, there is always something that needs to be tended, laundry to hang on the line, breakfast to serve and clean up, and schooling to begin. In order to start the day properly, I have been waking up before everyone to have some […]
The geese have already started heading south. I can hear them honk and take flight- it is the grandest sight to see them fly right by my little balcony, eye level with me. I love to see them in flight and, although some people think geese are a nuisance, I think they are beautiful! It […]
The canning pots have not taken a break over the past week or so, nor has the pressure canner … I had hoped to start school early (as the girls keep requested to crack open our books – Praise the Lord!) but these tomatoes keep ripening 🙂 and they must not go to waste … […]
“Ma and Laura picked the tomatoes… There were enough ripe tomatoes to make almost a gallon of preserves.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder , The Long Winter I am so grateful – we have an abundance of tomatoes and I do mean an abundance – flowing out of our garden. It is wonderful! […]
