A few months ago I started on a mission to explore some technology-stuff I might want to use, and (having done the research) reported my opinions findings here... In my first expedition, I went prospecting on Pinterest (which has continued to serve me well---and has continued to be FUN), and I followed that up with assessing … Continue reading Expedition Journal #3: Faking a Phone
Tag: Family
Hill-Climbing, Hummingbirds, and Handguns
This evening, a particular piece of kid-art caught my eye. We have their notes and drawings tacked up all over the place---on the walls, on the fridge---but when something is always there you sometimes stop seeing it. That's the case with this piece , carefully dated 8-2-11 (almost exactly a year ago) with sticker-letters spelling … Continue reading Hill-Climbing, Hummingbirds, and Handguns
Our Little Patch of Plantation
The current buzz-word for this practice is Urban Homesteading, but "urban" doesn't quite describe us. Our little place isn't within the city limits of any town (and if it were, even Idaho's capital city barely qualifies as "urban")... Perhaps in our case we should call it "backyard homesteading," or just plain "turning-a-regular-home-into-a-mini-farm." Whatever you choose … Continue reading Our Little Patch of Plantation
Budget Limbo: How LOW can we go?
Yesterday we made the six-hour drive back home from my parents' house, and we hope that Grandy and Boboo are recovering from the chaos of their week-long house-full of US! The kids immensely enjoyed their week, though of course it went by too quickly for them---sleeping in a tent in the backyard, roasting marshmallows for … Continue reading Budget Limbo: How LOW can we go?
Rhubarb Leaves of Death: Family Mysteries Revealed
When we arrived at my parents' house Saturday evening, my mom had her old recipe of rhubarb cake ready for us. She used to grow rhubarb in our back yard when we were little, just along the walkway through the yard, and my sister and I both burst out with our remembered terrors regarding that … Continue reading Rhubarb Leaves of Death: Family Mysteries Revealed
Can’t Stand the Heatstroke: Getting Out of the Kitchen!
When my sister and I were kids, we spent a good chunk of every summer with our grandparents in Colorado. We both remember fondly the traditions and rituals of those summers---the daily swimming lessons at their pool, the picnic pool-lunches (fingers coated orange by Cheetohs, and purple tongues from grape soda), the yellow slip-n-slide on … Continue reading Can’t Stand the Heatstroke: Getting Out of the Kitchen!
A Tattooed Chicken-Farmer in Heat (Wait, that didn’t come out right…)
Okay, okay: "A Tattooed Chicken-Farmer in THE Heat." That's what I meant. (Though our teenager, who has learned to approach our door warily if he arrives home unexpectedly, might vote for the original...) Point is, it's HOT in high-desert Idaho in the summer. Too hot to think. Too hot to remember all the, um... the … Continue reading A Tattooed Chicken-Farmer in Heat (Wait, that didn’t come out right…)
Kana's Chronicles 