Shotsnaps

Be warned. I'm a mama with a camera, and no one tried to stop me...except for Aidan, and he's too little to stop me. It all ...

(That's what my Dad once told me boys used to say in admiration about a particularly lovely girl.) When all 124 tomato plants started ...

Yup.  Thanks to Mildred, I have another recipe to send to Queen Elizabeth . One morning Millie made lavender blossom muffins, and I took a...

God gave a bountiful corn harvest this year.  We stuffed ourselves silly with corn, and one week, after having had garden-everything tossed ...

If you're drowning in cucumbers and sick of canning pickles, put fresh cucumbers in jars prepared for pickling, like in this recipe .  J...

Zeke normally plays outside nearly all day, but I thought I heard some little boy wails one morning, so off I searched.  The day before I...

  John did all the work of planting and weeding, but I had the distinct pleasure of harvesting this year's garlic.  120 or so heads o...

John made these sandwiches for supper one night, and the next day while he was at work, I wanted another.  So I made one, following his simp...

  The girls and I have eaten bowls upon bowls of curried zucchini soup this year.  It's delicious and will have to someday find its...

I have no pictures of Millie's birthday breakfast or birthday supper.  How did this happen?!  I have failed. (Breakfast: apple-cinnamon-...

Millie's other request (Another?! Sheesh. You'd think it was her birthday or something) was for Papa to set up the tent And...