I didn’t grow up with cousins around, but Chuck did. He has lots of cousins on both sides of his family and we love spending time with them. Yesterday was one of those…

We are enjoying our first D6:18 jar of honey thanks to Bob and Erica’s bees! It’s sweet as farm life and warm like the sunshine that made our tiger lilies and black eyed…

The bees were gathering pollen, while Chuck was gathering rocks with his favorite sidekick. The cows were escaping their fence as we drove home from church. Chuck was working in his wood shop…

I may have discovered the secret to growing the next generation up to be smart, curious, hard-working and kind. Ditch the distractions. A farmer in his 20s on a tractor with a toddler…

A few thing that made me smile this weekend: Farmer cutting hay. His gratitude when I gave him a cool juice. Back fields dotted with finished bales. A mile long lake swim for…

It was a hay sneezy weekend and that’s not a bad thing! Our farmer was baking hay while we had some sunshine. There’s no such thing as weekend for him. You have to…

It has been a perfect Mother’s Day afternoon… We beat the thunderstorms coming back from the far woods with some Shasta daisies to transplant by the front driveway. I am now sitting on…

After a few days traveling for work I was thinking of happy places as I pedaled with my hillbilly friend today. It was our first ride from my place since her baby was…

We are saying goodbye to April already and I can hardly believe it. Each week I see the changes, the grass is green, the trees have leafed out, and it’s planting time at…