I am grateful for Nonae.

#ProjectZen #Day15 #GratitudeProject I am not feeling very wordy today. Most of my concentration has been spent on breathing and controlling pain while I was awake. I slept a lot. But because I really want to see my month-long gratitude project through to the end, here I am on Day 15. Only for a moment,…

I am grateful for my mother’s afghan.

#ProjectZen #Day9 #GratitudeProject Here we are! Day 9 of my gratitude project! Yay! Memories of my mom don’t just include her wonderful cooking, baking, and canning. Nor the pots of hot tea over games of Chinese checkers. Nor the million of other thing she did, or what we did together. They also include all the…

Fun with memes.

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Mom’s doughnut recipe.

This recipe comes from my Mother, hand-written on a piece of note-book paper, older than me, and I was born in 1966. The numbers to the side in parenthesis are the conversion increase numbers for ingredients…..that Mom tested, tried and true. Most recipes were not big enough for our robust farm family, and Mom had…

So, we rescued some kittens.

The story-line below was copied from an album description I have on Facebook, where I documented the progress of the kittens over time.  On September 24, 2016 our neighbor knocked on our door about 10:00 PM very worried because she found a batch of kittens under her deck. She did not want them there (she…

Molasses Cookies

Nothing reminds me more of my grandmother (Dad’s mom) more than cookies. She always had big, soft cookies in her cookie jar. Not too long ago I made molasses cookies for the first time in decades. I had a hankering for them so strong, I just had to make them. My husband hadn’t had them…

Recipes from Ware Farm

These recipes are courtesy of my brother Bernie, and his wife, Sandee……who own/operate a family owned organic farm in northern lower Michigan. They have been posted MySpace, Facebook, Pinterest and on the Web….and I am sharing them here (and posting them for my benefit too, so I can find them easily). Enjoy!

Her life was a gift.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us sweet girl. SASHA APPLEBY 1/19/2006 – 6/29/2016 Loved every single second of her beautiful life. It eventually gets to a point where the tears running down your face feel like acid sloughing off your skin…..and the pain in your chest becomes a desperately aching void…..and you…

Birthday card drive for a special lady!

Hi everyone! This is SHANNON WRINKLE and she turns 80 YEARS OLD on October 23, 2015! Her son (Brian) and daughter-in-law (Elaine) initiated a birthday card drive as a surprise for Shannon to celebrate her birthday. They would love to receive cards from all over the world to make her day special! Would you like…

Today, I am grateful for…

While he has been the subject and object of my gratitude many times….today I am once again grateful for my husband and best friend, Don. As we approach 25 years of marriage…I find new reasons almost every day to love him and appreciate him even more. Since I have fallen ill…he has been working multiple…