Lights are strung. Cards are (mostly) sent. 🙂 A pumpkin roll is baked and waiting. It’s a quiet, peaceful Christmas Eve night. Today we had a wonderful work day with the family! Here we have been enjoying almost spring-like weather, singing snippets of carols and greeting each other with joyous,...
I hope your summer is going well! You may remember our fall apple outing from a previous post… Well, last summer, and now this summer, we’ve also been very excited to have the opportunity to buy fresh, local peaches! My brother’s family lives right next to an orchard of about 600...
The garden is coming along – and we are picking cherries, folks!! I also harvested the season’s first quart of honey and picked the first beautifully fragrant long-stemmed rose this week. What gifts from our heavenly Father! God is so good! One thing I have been impressed by this spring...
A sweet, faintly spiced aroma graces the warm kitchen, giving me a hint of what I’ll find as I pop open the oven door and take a look. Mmmmmm… The topping is nicely browned. The juices are bubbling merrily, oozing enthusiastically over the side here and there. The fluted crust...
When I was a little girl, my family had a small apple orchard in the yard. My favorite tree was a variety called William’s Pride, which was the one closest to our well-house. Though the tree was relatively compact, it had a perfect little nook for a little girl to...
Day before yesterday, my brother came by with a whole grocery sack full of peppers from their garden. And when I say full, I mean about as stuffed with peppers as a grocery sack can get! There were globular green bell peppers and slender red cayenne peppers. There were “Big...