Several months ago I was talking with my mom, lamenting the fact that Gramma has all of this family and yet she spends pretty much ...

16 years old. Workin' at Western Sizzlin. Pulled a pan of bakers out a 500 degreee oven where they'd been for the last hour ...

Tyler added a snail and a sucker fish to the tank about a month ago in a last ditch effort to keep it. He bought the aquarium from ...

Congrats, Bud!! (look at them guns ~ he still needs the permit for those ;-)

Thanks to Brandon and his mad machete skills, the thieving varmint is now dead - his pieces thrown back in the coop, for the chickens ...

Oh my goodness! I am such a dork !! All the efficiency techniques in the world won't help me if I screw up on the basic math....

I finally finished my quilt repair , now all I have to do is take a few pictures of it, then give it away. {sniff} I also cut out m...

This  is the little seedling from a week ago Isn't that crazy?! The babies are 7 and 8 (ish) weeks old. There fo...

(or -  the fastest quilt I expect I will ever make ;-) For K, across the ocean. with love. ...

Soo. For those who are wondering... I had an MRI on my knee  on Thursday, and the results weren't as cut and dry as I'd hope...

Tyler asked me earlier what I was going to work on today. I listed several mundane jobs and told him I also wanted to cut out my shirt ...

Um. I think I may have overestimated my sewing awesomeness . See, I had done some applique on the back of my most recent quilt fi...

(love this girl so much) (no worries ~ the lime green bag sticking out of the drawer has been tucked back in.) 

(after 10 minutes of trying to come up with a title for this - I've got nothin' ~ so I went with it) ~ A few months ago, wh...

The fact that 3 days ago, this mammoth 4 inch seedling was housed inside of a half inch pumpkin seed is nothing short of amazing....

I am a quilt makin' machine , I tell ya. Never mind the fact that I still haven't finished T's (April) birthday qui...

The kids started asking a few months ago, "When's National Donut Day ?" About the fifth time somebody asked, I pulled u...

I always assume that people know this, but maybe they don't. Blogs are just a snapshot. A close-up snapshot. They aren'...

At first, I thought I'd just indulged a little too much on Easter. But when my knee was still hurting in mid April and I hadn...

(as usual, you can click on any photo to see it larger) I bought several field guides at the book sale, along with a few curriculum ...