Category Archives: Kitchen

Hello, Fall! Our garden is still producing a few tomatoes, but its biggest crop this year has been the pumpkins I grew on a whim. I believe we harvested about 30 pumpkins, so our deck is lined from toe to toe with them. Below our festive deck, we have four new baby kitties the kids are...

I enjoy looking through recipes, and I often bookmark cookbooks, dog-ear cooking magazines, and print off recipes that I want to try later. The “to try” section of our recipe collection is full to bursting. In fact, some of the overflow is tucked away in various drawers and cupboards around our house. There is a particular...

So much has taken place since last month!  The last week of August, school began (we now have three grandchildren in school), Kevin went on his annual fishing trip to Canada, and we concluded the week with our niece Heather (Jansen) and her new husband, Dylan Fields’, wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and a...

The “ber” months are in full swing, and thank goodness we can finally step outside without melting! But if your days look anything like mine, “running” has become the official sport of the season. Running to get everyone out the door, running to make it to school (hopefully on time), running to grab groceries, and...

We have had a big change in our family recently with me going back to work as a high school English teacher at Lynnville-Sully. While we are adjusting to this change, it has been so sweet for Hayden and I to have our first year at L-S together as he began kindergarten. I get to...

In most circumstances, I consider myself to be a relatively calm and patient person, but there is something about the GPS in our van that irritates me to an irrational degree. I will grudgingly admit that it is quite useful when travelling somewhere I have never been. But it infuriates me when it tells me...

Ready or not, fall activities are here! As I write this article this morning, the sweet corn crew is picking corn and preparations are being made for a day of chopping corn silage, and I have a few more items to check off the list to be ready for the first day of school.   The...