Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 2019 Hi Everyone, Dutch here again and yep I still like treats! You are probably reading this letter after Christmas because my mom likes to wait until the last minute and then something comes up and you guessed it, LATE! Sometimes she even forgets to give me my treat …
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Orchard in the making = happiness
The start of our orchard happened tonight! 2 apple, a pear and a peach tree in the ground. Blueberries tomorrow and even more next week. My Vinny knows my love of organic gardening and trying to have a pesticide free yard for our babies. His wish is to have an orchard so we both win! …
Halloween…
A little over a year ago on the 4th of July, I lost my mom due to health complications from diabetes and other underlying health conditions. Halloween was her favorite holiday. She would decorate the whole front yard, the front of the house and inside the house. She also made a huge pot of chili …
True love
You may be wondering why I would write about true love with a picture of bushel baskets of tomatoes in the back of my disheveled equinox. Or maybe you just think I love tomatoes...but the love comes from my brother. He hates, I mean hates, tomatoes! If the little seed balls happen to get on …
Merry Christmas from our critters!
We would like you to meet Sparkle! She was my mom's cat that she got last year at Christmas time and named her Sparkle because she loved anything that sparkled. When my mom passed away in July we decided to bring her to live with us. She has adapted very well and is the best …
Happy Kluckers
It's been awhile and I am happy to announce that our girl starts school next week! Where did the time go!? I haven't posted anything about our new chickens. They are now old enough that they have started laying eggs and I am selling those eggs to help fund the kids Christian education. Spread the …
Christmas spirit
My girls are in the Christmas spirit! My dad passed away this past spring and I have been struggling with missing him terribly and not wanting to do any of the "normal" celebrations. There were many things that would bring the grief front and center; cooking certain foods, hearing a song on the radio, my …
Here fishy, fishy
First time fishing for our girl and she loved it! It's hard to believe the first time we bought the boat, we had just found out that we were pregnant with Lydia. Bluegill and sunfish for dinner tomorrow! There is nothing like the taste of fresh pan fish from Michigans beautiful lakes!
Let’s go fly a kite…
Yesterday was so beautiful out I slacked on my housework and grocery shopping so that I could fly a kite with my hubby and my girl. It's the little things like this that my girl will remember not that she couldn't have a sandwich because I was out of bread.