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Building A Future

Just a Quick Note Typed With My Left Hand

Yesterday my right arm, shoulder mostly, felt four times the size of my right.  Now, it is just plain dead, painful achy and dead. On Memorial Day we went into the Bowerman Ranch for brunch and to hand off Anna to our northernmost framily  for a visit for the week. Part of the excuse was so … Continue reading »

Categories: Building A Future, Change, Daughters, Dirt, Redecorating | 7 Comments

Getting Back to Why

This moving blog hosts and the learning new blogging skills while trying to learn web site making skills for a future web page for the farm along with an already full life of planting and weeding and painting and cooking has made the transition long but it has revealed many things to me and the … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Building A Future, Change, Family, God the Father Son and Holy Spirit, Homemaking, Marriage | 7 Comments

Grandboys! and a New Member of the Crew

Thought I’d better get this up before all this is old news too.  We have another game to go to this evening after we go in and help the Stones, Mike and Michelle, with some yard work stuff that is starting to make Chelle feel all defeated like.  I know how that feels.  So before … Continue reading »

Categories: Building A Future, Daughters, Grandsons | 8 Comments

Always A Silver Lining

Here’s my greenhouse, all finished. Just joshin’ ya. But this is part of what was promised… …that silver lining that we always see when we step back and take a second look. Last week we didn’t have far to step back to in order to get a clear view of a bold, wide silver lining … Continue reading »

Categories: Building A Future, Family Outing, Framily, Road trip | 5 Comments

Too Much? Balance?

Please be patient with me today Dear Reader, I know I’ve written about my pet peeve before but some things have been stacking up towards needing to write about it again, then my good friend wrote a little something and it got me all charged up. Read this and then come back here for my … Continue reading »

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Living Among The Window Ledge People

So I’ve said a few time before and promised an explanation of not having rules especially in departments where some expect us to have rules. Our daughters, all four, have never dated and won’t. Two are now married. Some folks then wonder what our “rules” look like, how it is we “do” that. How do … Continue reading »

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A Little More…

Ready for another freak fest? If A Final Lesson In Faith was just whetting your appetites for knowing exactly how weird we all are, the Vicks and the Bowermans, and all that the bond includes, then I sure as heck have more where that comes from. I think these are turning out to be the … Continue reading »

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A Final Lesson In Faith

It’s story time. Only this story is absolutely and completely true, no fake letters, no fictional characters. . It is a story that is at once my final lesson in faith and a story about grafting on to a tree. I know, its weird ‘cuz the pictures that go with this story are our haying … Continue reading »

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Have I Ever Been Gone So Long Before?

I’m outta sorts, I have written so many posts in the last few days. But none have shown up here.I have even tried, desperately tried, to write silly willy nilly posts about pruning, cats, (not pruning cats, pruning trees and watching cats), nutty dogs, hard jobs, good friends, bad scenes (the naked bottom of a … Continue reading »

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Sayings and Stuff

Beware dear reader my funny side is in a storage locker right now and my grumpy, introspective, foreboding, sack cloth and ashes side, is hung out today for all who wish to see it, endure it more likely. Quick, swing right past here, don’t even glance down, if you just want to trollop through today … Continue reading »

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