I was reminded these past two weeks of how little margin there are in our days. Everyone but Stewart came down with a cold or flu or something that had us slightly feverish and sniffling and coughing. It all started two Sundays ago and still, it lingers. But cows still need to be milked and…
I don’t really know what happened to January. We started digging up the potato field. We had a lot of cozy evenings by the wood stove. We did a lot of addition and long division and multiplying fractions alongside reading and penmanship and english. I finally got around to planting broccoli starts which have still…
December has a funny way about it, here in Texas. A cold front has swept in, on the heels of several warm days, so we’ve shifted from opening all of the windows to carrying in firewood by the arm full. The children are always excited at the mere prospect of wintry weather and I can’t…
One of the greatest gifts we have been given through this agrarian pursuit is that, though the days may often be overflowing and quite long, they are nearly all spent together. When Daddy is working he is sometimes in his office, often out on the land, or a very short walk down our dirt road….
