Daily Blessing -

Rejoice! … for the beloved cat has been found!

I was sitting here at my dining table working on the computer – with the outside temps climbing up into the 90’s* F – when my driveway Ring started going off. “Boing!” “Boing!” “Boing!” “Boing!” What on earth…

August 6, 2026Lessons from the forest

42 cents savings …

Our power company is having a “Power Savings” event today from 4pm-8pm. Game on!I better get my laundry done before 4pm! I better get dinner ready-to-go and in the crockpot before 4pm! I better make sure my…

August 6, 2026Life Lessons

What are we breathing?

With all the wildfire smoke in the air I look across my backyard and everything is a haze of smoke. I can’t see the blue sky … only a haze of smoke. I can’t see the Cascade Mountains…

August 5, 2026Life Lessons

Blessings in the season of orange (aka: “smoke season”)

Once more this morning the sun came up a fiery ball of red-orange through the smoke. Overnight the smoke from the eastern part of my state wafted westward and was broken up by the peaks and valleys of…

August 4, 2026Gratitude

Renewed day-by-day

As I was out this morning picking blackberries, everything was an abnormal stillness as smoke hung heavy in the air and the light of the sun was an abnormal orange-y-yellowish (due to all the wildfire smoke from eastern…

August 3, 2026Life Lessons

Gladness … in orange.

As the sun is coming up this morning it is an abnormal reddish deep-pumpkin-orange color. (due to the wildfire smoke from eastern WA) It’s fascinating how the sun being a different color from what is normal is very…

August 2, 2026Lessons in the Dirt

The season of orange

It is the season of orange. The sun is an abnormal orangy-light today as there is wildfire smoke in the air. Vast areas in the eastern part of my state are on fire and burning. Hundreds of thousands…

August 1, 2026Life Lessons

Trusting the air traffic controller

Yesterday was the Blue Angels’ practice day. Today is the "real deal.” Exciting! Via my handy dandy flight-tracking website, I zoomed in on the portion of the map where the air show would be … then I settled…

July 31, 2026Life Lessons

It’s practice time!

I was calmly sitting at my dining table working on the computer when all of a sudden … the thundering roar of fighter jets blasted past overhead! Whoa! The Blue Angels are in town! WhooHoo! (for a second…

July 30, 2026Life Lessons

Christmas in July! (part 2)

Here at the end of July, I thought it would be fun to share an update on how the plants from my Christmas Advent Seed Calendar are doing. Christmas in July! (You can see part 1 here: Christmas…

July 29, 2026Lessons in the Dirt