Walkin' in High Cotton

Pets and Beds

va_grown — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:00:57 +0000

I knew that Penny was growing fast, but I didn’t realize she was turning white and growing retractable claws! Scratchy tends to take up residence wherever the mood strikes him at the moment. I guess that’s the nature of cats. I guess he thought he was safe because she was out excavating our backyard some [...]

A Place for Everything

va_grown — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:09:36 +0000

There a lot of things that don’t have a “place” in our house–mostly because we have too many “things.” It’s one reason why we’re tackling this big upstairs sort toss project. But there’s one room in our house that works hard at having a place for everything and everything in it’s place. Our mudroom. Especially [...]

Using Chalkboard Paint

va_grown — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:10:38 +0000

Ok, so I’ve been promising a post about our cool chalkboard project for a couple days now. First I had to show you that we were actually making progress on the Playroom, so that there’s actually room for a chalkboard…then I had to interrupt everything to let you know that lambing season is underway here [...]

It’s Lambing Time!

va_grown — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:37:58 +0000

Well, I’ve been promising a chalkboard painting post, and I swear, it’s coming. But I’ve got bigger news that I just had to share–it’s lambing time! Now isn’t that more fun than how to make a chalkboard? Well, we think it is anyway. It started with twins on Valentine’s Day morning, and now we’re up [...]

Playroom Part 2

va_grown — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:47 +0000

Well, we’ve gotten the major dusting, scrubbing, purging and shuffling done in our playroom revamp (You can read about our chaos-to-carpet-again phase here). The heavy-lifting for this project gets done on the weekends and it’s not an instant effort. It’s moving along in stages based on when we have time and what the weather [...]

Our Playhouse Barn

va_grown — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:00:16 +0000

This past weekend was not what I was expecting or planning for, but we did manage to get several errands run. And since we saved money on our aborted trip out of town, my upstairs project budget of “practically nothing” got expanded to “a little bit of something.” Not Better Home and Garden “something”, but [...]

Purging Bitterness

va_grown — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:10:40 +0000

Well, this past weekend will not be one for the scrapbooks. And it certainly won’t go down on our list of romantic alone time. As a matter of fact, after this blog post, I might try to forget it even ever happened… Marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in the Disney movies. I [...]

Molly in the Grass

va_grown — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:19 +0000

Cows are herd animals. And ours are a family herd as well, so they are tight. Very tight. So you know something’s up when you see one off laying all by her lonesome. We had just shuffled everyone around and the cows were off in our big back field when we saw Molly off by [...]

Farm Lane Philosophy

va_grown — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:42 +0000

This past weekend while I was wandering around the farm checking on a few new happenings (some cute, fuzzy, news coming up tomorrow!) I started using the viewfinder on our camera instead of the LCD screen. Just trying it out. I’ve got my eye on a new Nikon D5100, but my coffee can savings bank [...]

Bible in 90 Days

va_grown — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47:30 +0000

About a month ago I signed up with my friend Aurie to join a Bible in 90 Days reading group, starting February 1st. So far I’m hanging tight, but whew, this is an eye-opener already for me! I have to admit, I’ve never read the Bible completely, cover to cover. I have read the entire [...]