Akin family

Meanwhile, out in the Pacific Ocean.... In the month of July I totaled one hundred nineteen and seventy-six one hundredths miles.  That...

I'm starting to see a little color!

I am sure I have mentioned that when I was growing up our family went to the same beach every single summer.  Except the year my oldest brot...

I will be busy today; it is Friday! That means cleaning house, and doing the banking and the shopping and running other errands.  ...

When we first got married, Mr. Marvelous would show up at the school where I taught every month on the eighteenth and bring me a dozen roses...

I posted an update a couple of weeks ago with pictures of what is going on around the homestead.  When I posted the link on Facebook a frie...

Remember the new rooster ?   He is settling in well.  He's a handsome guy, and he doesn't crow constantly (what more could yo...

Many years ago my family moved to Miami, Florida.  It was a challenging period.  During our time there, one brother graduated high school an...

Whether you spend it gathering materials and making something amazing... (Like pollen to turn into honey)                 ...Or if...

It might have made me sad to look at our potato patch.  Wilted...   dying, dried up stems. It might have.  Except that I a...

And we have babies! I love the wide open beaks!  In case you are wondering, they are wrens.

There is a bit of buzz going around about what the fall and winter are going to be like this year.  It has been a cool, wet summer and in ...

One weekend during my first year of teaching, my phone rang at 1 a.m. on a Saturday morning.  I fumbled my way to the receiver and tried to ...

My heart is singing this song today.  Sing it with me! “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and mig...

Some of our vegetables are getting a little scarey.  I think they are trying to take over. The squash are at least semi-polite about it....

I'm still battling dust bunnies.  The garden needs to be picked (again) and the tomatoes (and squash and cucumbers and peas and beans) a...

I'm in the middle of cleaning house and canning.  I thought I would share a previously unpublished window view from the fall that adds a...

It doesn't feel as though it has been twenty-seven years. Most days I don't feel as though I have changed.  Most days! Sometime...