Simple Joys

  I love holidays.  Not only the celebrating kind, like birthdays and Christmas and Thanksgiving, but especially the no-school kind.   Not that I don’t love homeschooling, but enough is enough, and it’s nice to concentrate on other things once in a while.   So far we’ve dejunked the house some more, we’ve caught up with […]

  It feels as though the sun has been hibernating.  Sodden day has followed after gloomy day for far too long, but this morning the sun shone!   I stood in front of the window, just to enjoy the golden brilliance glowing everywhere.   “Oh dear!  What are the dogs doing now?” asked one of […]

  We live in a small nature paradise, surrounded by life and beauty.   We have praying mantises and leafcutter bees and butterflies, half the colors of the rainbow.    Our huge skies, almost prairie-like, are full of dramatic cloudscapes and sparkling constellations.  An orchestra of songbirds flit about, geese honk, and turkey vultures circle […]

  After a busy day of homeschooling, I love to walk out to the raspberry patch, swinging a gallon pail.  Any bad or buggy berries go to our birds, so the ducks quack stridently, demanding their treat as they see me coming.  The chickens crowd along the fence and murmur expectantly and peacefully.  I’m always […]

    This morning I woke up with bright yellow moonshine filtering through willow leaves and onto my pillow.    When I got up, the scent of last night’s campfire drifted from my hair.   What a joy to live in the country, have a campfire in the back, and still sleep in my own […]