I start my mornings each day with quiet time, the Lord and I.  It is the most precious and necessary part of my day. David, the psalmist wrote in Psalms 63:1-3 "O God, thou art my God;  early will I seek thee:  my soul thirsteth for thee,  my flesh longeth for thee  in a dry and thirsty...

Anyone who has done any amount of remodeling will probably understand what I'm about to say... it seems you take a step forward, and two steps back when you begin to tackle remodeling a home!  That is what we have been experiencing as we attempt to ready the home to move into. I busied myself painting the cabinets...

I was taking a bit of a break from all the remodeling work going on at our place, and stepped into our forest for a few minutes last weekend to relax.  I had no sooner walked a bit into the forest then my eyes spied something.... blue! The Oregon grapes were ripe!  When I first tasted an Oregon grape berry...

Yes... I've felt rather blue today, but it was enjoyable, I'll admit! I had planned to continue the work on painting the cabinets, but when I lamented about the quickly passing blueberry season, my daughter volunteered to work on painting the cabinets, which freed me up to make a quick trip out to the local blueberry...

Last week, the second "part" of our house arrived, which is the porch addition.  It was a lot of hard work for my husband and the mover to get the addition loaded onto the trailer, and safely moved.  In fact, it took them all day to jack up the addition, get it loaded onto the trailer, and then moved here...