Small Moments of Great Reward

My friend Cecelia, whom I absolutely love (and who blogs here and is one of the bravest bloggers I know) put the bag on my desk a little o...

I knew I was approaching this milestone in blogging and had been turning over topics in my head. I wanted my 400th post to be something trul...

Back in August, I started the following post: Canning is a messy business. Over the weekend I canned a batch of salsa, only seven pints, a...

The following post was written by a coworker and close friend, Debby Merritt. She had shared it with me recently, having come across it in h...

It is raining. After a pretty wet June and early July, the skies turned dry. Oh, the temperatures stayed pleasantly cool for the most part...

I have worn out the beaters to my mixer. Oh, it's just a little sturdy hand mixer, but one that has carried me through 11 years of ...

We have had a run of cool weather here, balmy days and crisp mornings. Today's temperature at 7:00 a.m. was 50°. I went outside early ...