Category Archives: Around the Home

The Family Vegetable Garden

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl         It’s early summer morning at our little homestead on Prince Edward Island … where will you find us? While many […]

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Dream Small

  “Each day of our lives, we  make deposits in the memory banks of our children …” -Charles Swindoll    It’s hot, humid and fully summer here on Prince Edward Island. We are busy with the farm, busy with the garden and busy with family life. I do have a post that I am working […]

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The Cost of Living

The Old-Time Family It makes me smile to hear ’em tell each other nowadays The burdens they are bearing, with a child or two to raise. Of course the cost of living has gone soaring to the sky And our kids are wearing garments that my parents couldn’t buy. Now my father wasn’t wealthy, but […]

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The Old {Broken} Apple Tree

“In the embrace of spring, apple blossoms bloom like whispers of hope.” ~ Anonymous   “And it has an old apple tree by the pond,” I remember my husband saying over the phone, as he described our new to us property on Prince Edward Island. He had taken a two day drive to visit the […]

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My Pantry

“Laura returned to the front room… She knew it must be the pantry door, but she stood in surprise and then in delight, looking at the pantry. All one wall was covered with shelves and drawers, and a broad shelf was under a large window at the pantry’s far end…   One whole wall was […]

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