Simple Joys

  There is something special about the smell of early mornings.  It smells like nature, especially in the country or at a campsite.  Even when we lived in cities, however, there was something almost magical about the early morning air.   Later in the day pollution, cooking smells, and fabric softener odours drift through urban […]

  We’ve had a lot of rain, so much that the garden is constantly too wet to weed.  Yesterday afternoon it was not raining, and the soil was getting dry enough to sit on.  When I walked to the garden with my white weed pail, the chickens clucked excitedly.  They know that pail often holds […]

  My husband came home today, eager to have a picnic lunch.  This was unusual, but exciting.  What made it even more exciting was the severe thunderstorm and the drenching downpour.               So did we give up on the picnic idea?  Not at all!  Instead, we set up a table and lawn chairs in […]