Like so many young couples, my husband and I find ourselves still living the un-settled life. We still find ourselves moving place to place, stair-stepping for better job opportunities. All the while pinching pennies in order to someday have enough to buy a place of our own. We’ve lived in…
My husband went out of town last week for work, and as so many do when their spouse leaves town, I planned a dozen projects that I was going to work like a dog to a accomplish before he got home. Now, I do this every time he goes out…
Like many western states, our area seemed to have more of a winter the second half of April this year than we received the whole month of January. The weather was cold, and after weeks of prayers for added moisture in the mountains, snow finally came. Yet just as quickly…
Like everywhere else in the Rocky Mountain region of the northwest, the winter of 2026 has been extremely mild in our neighborhood. To a point of concern. There have been many prayers for moisture, particularly in the higher elevations. Prayers that we will have enough moisture to offer green grass…
About a year ago, our family made a big move to a different state. Since binding our lives together, my husband and I have moved plenty of times, but moving our family of five seemed like a much bigger ordeal than our previous move with our little family of three.…
Those few days following Christmas can often seem almost empty. Sure, there is some excitement about the new year and the New Year holiday. And I even think there is something a little relieving about getting one’s living room back to its usual way once the tree is gone and…
We woke up to our first blanket of snow this morning. The wonderful world of white bringing an insulation not only to the ground, but also to the air. The sound of everything somehow seems softer when there’s snow on the ground. I love the first snow. There is something…
As I sit down to write each week – sometimes at my kitchen table, other times on the couch or at our home office desk – I often find myself almost frozen with doubts. I feel a dramatic scene from a B rated film where past voices from friends and…
We had our first frost last Monday. Though this is our first autumn season in our current area — and everything is new — the first frost still came as a bit of a surprise. I had fully expected to have another two weeks before that first layer of frost…
At the close of every July, I find myself almost uncontrollably feeling the sad sense that summer is over. As a born and raised Idaho farm girl, I know that isn’t true. There is still plenty of farm work to do. Where I’m from, wheat harvest is just wrapping up.…
