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Camping Adventures
Last weekend we went camping for the second time this summer. We intended to go to Priest Lake. Actually, we did go there, but all the campgrounds were full, so we drove across the state into Montana and ended up at Yaak River again. (Granted, the state is only 90 miles across the panhandle, but it seemed like a long…
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Sunday Evening Musings
Photo credit: Laura @ Through My Eyes The weather in my neck of the woods: Unusual. We’ve had several thunderstorms interspersed with hot, dry days this month. Before that we had a wet, rainy spring. But just normal, gray drizzly rain, not the dramatic thunder and lightning we’ve been experiencing lately. Outside my window: I hear the voices of my…
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The Summer I was 16
The summer I was 16 I almost met my future husband. It happened like this: Every four years our denomination held a General Convention. This was where the preachers and important laymen in the church got together and took care of church business. For us teenagers, it was a chance to socialize with other young people with similar church background.…
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Up the Mountain
On Saturday Lyle and I decided we would take my parents (and our kids) to ride the “world’s longest gondola.” At breakfast we told them we had a surprise outing planned for the day. They should bring a jacket, a hat, and a camera. (Turns out the jackets were unnecessary, but in north Idaho you just never know. Even in…
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Falling Water
Happy Independence Day! It’s 7:00a.m.-ish and the temperature is currently 44 degrees. My parents arrived for a visit yesterday. They live in Arkansas where it has been oh-so-much hotter and drier. This morning when we got up my dad told me that our air conditioner works good. Ha. The only air conditioner we have is a small window unit that’s not even…
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The Junkyard
Anywhere he goes, I’m happy to tag along. And sometimes we end up in the most interesting places. This morning he agreed to take me garage-saling… but he also “invited” me to go to Pull’n’Save with him afterwards. [Pull’n’Save is like a morgue for cars and trucks who have died but still have useful organs that can be transplanted. Just…
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Camping on the Border
This past weekend we went camping up in the very tip-top of the Idaho panhandle, just 1 mile from the Canadian border. The weather was iffy all weekend. Our campsite was right on the Moyie River, which was pretty full… and cold! What’s this? A flirting bench? Why, I believe it is! I think that handsome man is just waiting…
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The Drive-In Pediater
Have you seen today’s Google Doodle? It will probably be gone if you’re reading this tomorrow or later… so I’ve embedded the little video that plays when you click on the ticket. Just a cute little 30-second clip commemorating the opening of the first drive-in theater. Now, I’ve never been to a drive-in theater in my life, but the clip…
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Granddaddy’s Barn
Once upon a time a path led from the driveway along the edge of the garden to the barn where the hens lived. Red-the-cow and the nanny goats congregated there morning and evening to be fed and milked. We called tending the livestock “the chores.” Usually the teenage uncles were responsible for doing the chores. We little nieces and nephews…
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Snoqualmie Falls
We took “the scenic route” Sunday. That’s become our tradition each year– to find something interesting and a little out-of-the-way to stop and see on our way home from the homeschool conferences we go to in the Seattle area. This time Lyle decided on Snoqualmie Falls. We have visited several waterfalls in the Northwest over the years, but this is…
