I’ve been thinking about wind lately. I grew up on a farm near a village of four-hundred people. My parents lived north of this village until I was ten. Their next rented farm was south of that same berg. These places were the kind of farms that don’t exist anymore. My folks rented their smallContinue reading “WIND: A Personal Perspective”
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Lighting the Dark
It’s been an autumn of gatherings after eighteen months of isolation. The season began with a niece’s wedding in Sioux Falls, SD. It was a lovely wedding and urban weekend. The next event was my daughter’s wedding in my back yard. I’ve written about the planning process for hosting a home wedding in another blog.Continue reading “Lighting the Dark”
How to Host an Outdoor Wedding
Plan ahead. Double check everything.
Generosity of Strangers
“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quilt World
“To be of the Landscape is not to possess it, but to be part of it, an extension, an offspring …” William Kloefkorn
Spring into Summer
It felt great to have a few warm March days after a very cold February. It was warm enough to finally bring in the Christmas lights that I strung around the yard during the last warm days in November. All the electric cords were buried under inches of snow and ice for months. John GreenleafContinue reading “Spring into Summer”
Constructing a Building is like Crafting a Life
Fix foundational defects before adding surface pretties.
A HORSE IN EVERY ROOM
One of my ways of coping with so much time alone [during the pandemic] has been to rearrange the furniture several times.
DRY SPELL
Today it’s 95 degrees, too hot to even weed.
Language
I approach this blog entry about language usage with trepidation because grammar is not my strong suite. I’m fortunate to be surrounded by English majors; all the members of my writing group are English majors except me. My son, daughter, niece, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and ex-husband also hold various degrees in English. Many of them areContinue reading “Language”
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