The rain has been relentless this week. Our bottom field is flooded all the way to the river again, the third time this year. This is seasonally wet ground, so the flood doesn’t do any harm for now since we don’t expect these fields to be dry until sometime in May. Still, a full fledged [...]
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Moment of Bliss
Posted in children, family, farm, gratitude, nature, spring, weather, tagged family, farming, gratitude, home, mother, nature, seasons, spring, weather, wild harvested on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My Valentine(s): about a week late
Posted in children, family, gratitude, home, tagged family, gratitude, home, love, mother, valentine's day on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I had saved this photo of the farmer for a Valentine’s Day post, snapped about a month ago on some winter’s day when he was on one of his many piano playing breaks from farm work and the sun was shining through our kitchen window just as to illuminate briefly the beauty ever present in [...]
I’m still thankful
Posted in children, family, gratitude, home, thanksgiving, tagged family, gratitude, home on November 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I know this Thanksgiving stuff is going on and on and on here, but for us, the feast just happened last night since Thanksgiving Thursday proper was just another harvest day, and I am not the only one who has thanks to give either, so I happen to have more to share. This was the [...]
Small Gratitudes
Posted in children, fall, family, gratitude, home, mcminnville, thanksgiving, tagged autumn, family, gratitude, home on November 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
And now for the fun part. The part that really brings joy to this season. The list of gratitudes, the small ones, the ones that lighten the darkness, keep warm the heart, and push away the other countless small complaints–the growing list of necessary car repairs, the broken dishwasher, the unpainted walls, the loss of [...]
Thankful
Posted in CSA, family, farm, farming, gratitude, home, thanksgiving, tagged community supported agriculture, family, farming, gratitude, home on November 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It has been harder than usual to sit down and begin the process of clearly bringing to the light the specific things I am grateful for this year. Although this task is meant to remind us that we usually have so very much to be thankful for and the act of giving that thanks builds [...]
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