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Christmas time is in the air!

First real snow, and first time sledding. It’s beginning to look like Christmas on the Palouse!

Christmas Caroling on Friendship Square 2019

I’ve now recorded several years of Christ Church caroling, and this year’s was particularly amazing! Not only did we have an incredible crowd, but there was also a series of booths set up with hot food and drink, ranging from German sausage to French crêpes, cider and hot chocolate, cookies, hot pretzels, and more.

Huguenot Heritage and Roman Roads sponsored one booth, and my father made Nutella Crêpes. We estimate we served around 450!

Below is the highlight video. I didn’t get any photos of the booths because I was too busy making crêpes! If you have some good photos, can you send them to me to include below?

Previous Years:

Caroling (mall) 2009Caroling 2011Caroling 2012Caroling 2013Caroling 2015Caroling 2017



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Moscow City Council Election November 5th

Moscow has a City Council election coming up this November 5th.

Please vote, and consider voting for these three pro-family, pro-business conservative candidates for City Council!

Brandon Mitchell, James Urquidez, and Kelsey Berends

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About the Candidates

BRANDON MITCHELL moved to Moscow in 2013, and his family was well accepted into the community. Since then, he has been grateful to call Moscow his home. Brandon is a small business owner and looks forward to helping other local businesses prosper, hearing opinions from Moscow’s citizens, and working together with them to grow as a city.

JAMES URQUIDEZ, a local small business owner, will bring wisdom from a life well lived to the city council. He serves in the county jail as a chaplain and has worked to help restore felons and drug addicts. James believes this type of interaction will help bring balance in representing our community at the city level. James wants to maintain a family-friendly, business-friendly environment and to maintain excellent infrastructure while seeking to keep our taxes low.

KELSEY BERENDS serves as the human resource and talent acquisition manager at a local economics firm, where she has worked to hire more than 120 people, promoting Moscow as a great community for them and their families. As a member of the city council, Kelsey will focus on fiscal responsibility, individual liberty, and gainful employment for family prosperity to help Moscow thrive.

Anderson Family Construction

I wrote the following review of Anderson Family Construction for Houzz.

Anderson Family Construction built our home on acreage near Moscow, Idaho in 2018, and we are absolutely thrilled! We have a growing family, and really wanted a place that would incorporate a lot of very busy life. They modified the design to fit our family, incorporating some special features that were specific to us, including a foundation stone that has sentimental value to us, a butcher-block counter that used to be part of our family restaurant, and gorgeous built-in floor-to-ceiling bookcases in the large study, as I often work from home and own several thousand books.

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I was warned several times by friends who had built their homes that “building your own home is very stressful.” The building process was the one element of this whole move that really wasn’t stressful to us, and I think that is because of a very key ingredient that is somewhat rare in the homebuilding and construction industry: trust. It’s not that there were zero bumps (though there were very few), but we had full confidence that AFC was made up of owners and employees of integrity. We had much of this confidence going in because we knew several of the crew, and they did not disappoint. The builders (from the earth movers, to the framers, to the drywallers, to the woodworkers) had obvious pride in a job well done. We weren’t dealing with time-punchers, but a guild of craftsmen who delighted in solving problems and making beautiful results.

AFC kept to the budget, did most of the build in 4 months, and most of all gave us a very high-quality, high-efficiency, cozy, elegant home.

We like to say it is a “new home with an old soul,” combining 21st-century latest in building technology with a classic, “farmhouse” design we love so much. The foundation was poured using the innovative FoxBlocks, and the siding is LP Smartside. Combined with the high efficiency 33 SEER Mitsubishi HVAC for our heating and cooling, we have an energy efficient home with very reasonable utility bills as a result.

I high recommend AFC for any construction or remodel work, but particularly recommend their semi-custom, affordable yet gorgeous, high-quality home building.

I would happily give more details about our home and build process to anyone interested in using AFC – contact me through foucachon.com.

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Sunsets on the Palouse

I don’t think I will ever tire of sunsets on the Palouse! But my favorite sunsets are after a generous dumping of fresh snow. Here are a few of my recent favorite sunset photos (and a few sunrises) from around Foucachon Farmhouse.

Snow, snow, snow!

I have thoroughly enjoyed our snowfall these last few weeks! Thanks to the drone, in spite of battling a bad chest cold this last week I was able to enjoy the outdoors, flying from inside the house, and getting photos from all around the property. I’ve been posting regularly on the Foucachon Farmhouse FB Page and my Instagram. Enjoy some of the highlight videos below! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel here. 

This wide-screen 4k video is worth watching in full screen!

Watercolor from Tom Garfield

Tom Garfield of Heritage Arts Academy painted this watercolor based on the image of the view on Moscow Mountain from our kitchen sink. Beautiful work, Tom!

The original:

Mini island on Paradise Creek + a French Lesson

The kids wanted to show me their little island along Paradise Creek, so I followed them out! We ran into Gammy and Grandaddy, who also got the tour, and we ended with an impromptu French lesson practice session

CMP Undercover Planned Parenthood video (May 2017)

YouTube, Facebook, LiveLeak and other have all removed this video that the Center for Medical Progress released. America needs to see this video. I hope we can continue to host it here. Please share. Also, please follow the Facebook page, … Continue reading →

Love is a promise kept in action

“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise … Continue reading →