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A Fall Mantle, Pumpkins and an Owl
The cooler fall weather has arrived. It’s a lovely time of year and with Thanksgiving around the corner, I’m excited. Family is coming and more family, so it’s going to be quite a time. While I’ll have a lot of family here, two of my boys will be gone. One to Canada for his commercial ice fishing venture and the other to South Africa to work at a big game rehabilitation center where they take injured big game animals and doctor them and try to rehabilitate for release back into the wild. Friends of ours run this center, which is located close to Kruger Park and we visited there many…
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A Winter Mantle for 2014
I’m trying to get as much done here at the farm as I can before the family arrives next week. Russell, so sweetly decides to make a run into town to get me more liquid iron, and he asks if there’s anything else I’d like. I tell him bananas. One little item… But then I remember there is a sale on blackberries and clementines so I call to ask him to pick that up, too. Three little items… He doesn’t do much shopping at our local Sprout’s so finding the liquid iron was a bit of a chore but after rounding up two employees, the liquid iron was plucked…
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The Lovely Prospect of Family Pictures
Getting a family picture for us has never been easy. Maybe because I have 4 boys??? But for some reason, my kids could never just stand there and have nice bright smiles. Oh no, they had to tickle, pinch or push each other into position. Then I would get involved and… well maybe we should just leave it at that and suffice it to say there were red eyes for the pictures following. Today is the day we get to do it all again. I know we’re ALL looking forward to it. haha I’m trying to reassure myself that things are a little easier since the boys have gotten older…
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My {Un}Ordinary Life – Living with a Trapper and Other Characters
Sometimes my life seems really odd compared to those of my friends. Take for instance the other night. I retire for the evening at about 9 p.m. I am having a good rest until at some unknown hour an obnoxious smell invades my subconscious. But still I continue to sleep lightly. My husband then comes to bed and I am awakened. “What is that smell?” I ask. “Seth came home,” was the reply. Now that sounds really bad. As if that reply answered why there was an odious odor. You will be glad to know that there was more of an explanation coming. “He caught a skunk in one of…
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Never Assume
Justus had just poured the dry ingredients for the waffles we were making in with the wet batter. The Kitchen-Aid was turned on but didn’t get the sides clean. I suggested that Justus get a spatula. He did. But it was a metal spatula, and metal spatulas just don’t work too well when cleaning the sides of a bowl. 🙂 Never assume they know the basics. I felt like I had Amelia Bedilia in the kitchen; you know, the lady who takes everything literally. 🙂 It’s just so completely adorable how these little guys think. Enjoy the moments with your small children today, they pass quickly.
