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Review: Dot-to-Dot Philadelphia
Since I live “out west” I haven’t had many opportunities to visit historical and cultural sites on the east coast. In fact, I’ve only ever been to Pennsylvania once. We spent one day in Philadelphia and visited Independence Square and other sites with significance to early American history. When I was offered the opportunity to review the We Are Connected…
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Review – A Light So Lovely
(Obligatory Disclosure: I received a copy of A Light So Lovely in exchange for my review. This post also contains affiliate links.) As a lifelong avid reader I have read many, many books. I know I read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle long ago, probably as a teen. I just vaguely remember the story line. It wasn’t my cup of…
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How to Buy School Supplies for Your Homeschool
It seems like summer is hardly half over before the Back-to-School sales start. When I was growing up we would get a shopping list of school supplies from our school. The list for each grade level was slightly different. In the early years we needed a tablet or two of lined manuscript paper… a few Number Two pencils (I’m not…
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Historical Driving Tour: Spirit Lake
The next installment in our local historical driving tour takes us about 12 miles north of Rathdrum to another little town called Spirit Lake. This was actually the first tour Lyle and I did from the Roads Less Traveled book, so my pictures are from last fall. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Another special old church badly in need of restoration.…
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July in Review and a Party Quiz
In My Neighborhood Rathdrum Days, our annual small-town festival Finished stocking the Little Free Library across the street (Um, no, actually. I had it full once but it already needs restocking.) Travel Day trip to Montana for church one Sunday Weekend trip to Tacoma, Washington for church camp Recreational Activities 4th of July parade in Coeur d’Alene ATV ride on…
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Tennyson Tidbits
You know how easy it is to go down bunny trails on the internet, following one link to another to another until you are way off track from where you originally started? Turns out, old books can have the same effect. I found several lovely vintage hardback books at a local thrift store last week. Granted, none of them were…
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The Watermelon Fiasco
Have you ever participated in, or even been to, a watermelon-eating contest? I hadn’t, until this past Saturday at Rathdrum Days. I mentioned before that I was on the committee to help plan Rathdrum Days this year. My job? Entertainment coordinator for Saturday afternoon. Which must include, I was told, a watermelon-eating contest. I had many questions. How does it…
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A Little Free Library Adventure
One Sunday afternoon I asked Lyle if he would take me on a drive to Spokane to hunt for Little Free Libraries. He is not much interested in the little libraries themselves, but he does love anything to do with maps and driving… (not to mention how much he loves me) …so he was game. I took along 20 books…
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5 Things Friday
Firstly. We are doing summer hard. What? Can’t you tell how hard it is from that lazy lake picture? Seriously, between a full work schedule and then fitting in as much play as possible, life is very busy. We’ve been camping and kayaking and 4-wheeling and… Secondly. …going to parades! We hadn’t really planned on it, but after the Rathdrum…
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Recently Read
My summer reading list has included re-reads of old favorites as well as new-to-me authors and quite a few in between! As usual, this post includes affiliate links to Amazon. I might make a small commission if you click through on them, though it doesn’t cost you any extra. Thank you! My best recommendation from this past month’s reading list is…
