Daily Blessing

It is Monday morning … garbage day.  Our next-door neighbors (to the right side) have not been careful about the items they have been placing in their garbage bin.  Lots of various takeout containers … covered in plenty…

Yesterday’s blog post dealt with the importance of having regular “marriage check-up” discussions.  Talking through what is working in our marriage … what’s not working … what is “messy”?  Exactly how messy is the “messy”??  Do we need…

Our shower drain is backing up.  Bit by bit, each day it’s been getting worse.  Cleaning the hair and gunk out of the shower drain isn’t exactly a fun project.  And it’s certainly not something to be done…

Yesterday afternoon I went out to the garden to see if the tomatoes were getting ripe (they aren’t).  I did discover, much to my surprise, that the beans are still producing … in fact there were just enough…

I stopped by the library last night and picked up a book on hold:  "Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest.”   The summary on the back cover reads:  “Instead of discovering a land blanketed by dense…

Yesterday’s background photo featured hubby’s chainsaw sitting atop the stump of one of the massive hemlocks we had taken down this summer.  If you take a second look at that photo you will notice the huge stump dwarfs…

Yesterday’s blog post dealt with fights in marriage.  Disagreements, misunderstandings, miscommunication, annoyances!   When it comes to marriage … and to any relationship for that matter … forgiveness is the “oil” which keeps the relationship running smoothly.   This summer…

Hubby and I recently had a wood-stove insert installed in our fireplace.  We are venturing into the new realm of using wood to heat our home.  In the past, having a fire in the fireplace was something to…

I was sitting in the beanbag enjoying my peanut-butter-banana smoothie for lunch, while absentmindedly staring out the window … when it suddenly occurred to me how the enormous Big-Leaf Maple in the backyard is a remarkable picture of…