We’re on our way home. We’ll “boondock”… ie. camp without electricity/water tonight, likely at a Bass Pro. They are welcoming to overnight parking, along with Cracker Barrel and some Walmarts. We’ve slept in the lots of both of those this trip. Next up: Bass Pro. With propane heat, fridge, and cook stove, and a generator […]

It. Hath. Snowed. This photo was from Sunday morning. Before it snowed for another 12 hours. We have between fourteen and eighteen inches, I think. It’s stopped, finally. Roads are a mess. We’re one of two campers left in the campground. Church today was cancelled. We went to visit with family and Blaine helped tow […]

The boys started a word war. To the tune of Red Necked Woman. 🤦🏻‍♀️ The girls wrote a rebuttal, Goober Peas style. *This may or may not be based on actual events. We have one toilet and I’ve been informed they may have created themselves an outhouse in the woods. I can’t bring myself to […]

Happy thanksgiving! We spent the day yesterday at Silver Dollar City with friends. I set myself up for a whole lot of cooking to do today. But… we got it done. It was just us, and we continued our tradition to do appetizers around 11-12 and then eat turkey later. For appetizers, I made fried […]

Back when Eden was a baby and Liberty was two, we lived in South Dakota. I owned a beautiful antique player piano. When our home’s buyer wanted the piano, Blaine said it came with the house. He didn’t want to move it to Pennsylvania. Turns out, pianos are heavy. Really heavy. For thirteen years, I […]

We’ve spent the last week and a half making pretzels and sausage for Reformation day, and camping for the first time in our new camper. I started working part time for the first time in about twelve years, the laundry chores got reassigned in an attempt to keep up, we successfully celebrated camo day at […]