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Fan Friday—All Over the Place

Yes, yes. I missed a post . . . or two . . . last week and this and have been late, as per usual. Or often. My point is that I have a lot going on and my little ol’ brain is being taxed trying to keep up with it all. By request, I’m […]

Prep Monday—Camping

Let’s talk about camping. Most people have done it at least once or twice, some love it, some hate it. My personal idea of camping is sleeping in a tent, cooking over a fire, doing your household chores and personal business without the conveniences of home. My husband disagrees. (I will not also get into […]

Work Wednesday—The Pond

Yes, we’re back to working on the pond. And when I say “we,” I mean my husband . . . He did have me come down to make sure the dock was straight in the water, ‘cause, well, I like things neat and orderly. He couldn’t care less. We did go to an auction […]

Fan Friday—REPEAT, Chapter Two

Chapter Two The kids ran around the meadow, chasing each other. Paul and Millie and Rosie and Zoe had plenty of friends now, but they still stuck together like glue. They were sitting quietly, whispering, when I snuck up behind them and started tickling Millie. Little pistol. She whipped around grabbed my legs and sent […]

Work Wednesday—The Neverending Projects

So my husband got his pond cutter thingy and started cutting all the water lilies and dragging them to shore. And he spent a fair amount of time cutting up the giant tree and hauling logs to the pile behind the house that we’ll use this winter in our wood furnace. And then he hurt […]

Prep Monday—A Day Off

Everyone needs a day off now and again, and yesterday, I took mine. We started off with breakfast at the local café, and since I’m a creature of habit, I went for the loaded hashbrowns and, of course, bacon. My husband had the biscuits and gravy; I usually have to flip a mental coin to […]

Fan Friday—REPEAT, Chapter One

Chapter One We left our cozy little compound, Brad and Abby and I, and took our time hiking back down to the camp. Brad stayed for a few days, but was anxious to return to Walt’s old place. Funny how we still called it that; Walt had been gone for years. We’d gotten the old […]

Work Wednesday—The Pond

Last week, I told my husband that we could start work on the pond area as long as the other things on the list were finished—all those half-done projects. Well, I relented a bit, we’re still undone on a couple things, but wow—that man took off and worked his butt off on the other things. […]

Prep Monday—How Much is Enough?

Last week, I talked about how much food to grow. Today, I’m going to list some other supplies that you might want to stock up on, maybe even some things you hadn’t thought about purchasing or storing. Let’s look at the basics. Everyone uses toilet paper, but how MUCH do you use? That’s where you […]

Fan Friday–REPEAT

Prologue It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? A lot of things went down, a lot of bad things. I’m going to tell you all about them, the ones you don’t already know, and maybe some of the ones you do. The bad things happened almost fifty years ago, but they were put into place […]