Pantry Portrait: Grian MacGregor, Puppeteer, Artist & Homesteader

If you don't know Grian MacGregor, you're in for a treat. It brings me great pleasure to introduce you to her via  my Pan…

Rye 'n' Injun Bread... Farmer Boy

The chapter on cutting ice from the big pond in Laura Ingalls Wilders' Farmer Boy always amazed this Southern girl... especia…

Helping Hands and Simple Fun... Another "Little House" Lesson

When I was growing up, my grandmothers, my Mama, and my aunts all gathered together to can... "many hands make light work.&q…

Getting Ready for Winter... more lessons from "Little House" books

Preparing for winter was important in the "Little House" days... with the days of big supermarkets, truck deliveries ev…

Learning from the Little House Books... Smoking Venison

I first met Laura Ingalls when I was in the third grade... I began devouring the "Little House" books one by one... I r…

Tiling the Breezeway

We are underway with our breezeway makeover! Prepping the floor:   And the work begins:   Applying mud to the back of the…

When things go south and we have to stay north~

We have always lived as if we would need to go off the grid. When we built the first phase of our house it was built with Y2K in …

Learning a new skill & giving back

At the beginning of the year I posted about some skills that I wanted to learn . I have started towards some of them and made lea…