Things around here will be different for a while. Baby Sister and her family will be staying here at the farm for much of the summe...

What a week! I was in the midwest, way too close to the tornado activity during the first part of the week. Flew home on Tuesday, then ...

How wonderful to have some family time! This trip included a visit to "Touch-A-Truck" where a gazillion small children were checki...

The plane leaves just after lunch today. I'm headed to see this sweet face—and the rest of the family, too! Baby Sister is wearing ...

Vanilla Ice Cream I grew up in a household where making ice cream was a regular activity. When I was small, it was in a hand cranked ...

Where do you get your recipes? I remember my mother writing lots of recipes down on whatever piece of paper was handy—backs of envelope...

The rains have passed and the sun has come out. All those years growing up I heard the saying "make hay while the sun shines....