Walkin' in High Cotton

Welcome to Food and Farming Friday–where I fill you head with important information about the food and farming that you might not have thought about before. As mentioned in Tuesday’s post, there will be a little trivia at the end of the post.  If the post receives at least 10 comments by 9 pm on [...]

Welcome to spring!  A time when things just start happening. One day your field looks like this… And four days later it looks like this… And the yard…don’t even get me started… I guess it could be worse.  I took a picture of this field on the way to the office.  And no, I didn’t [...]

April 26-30, 2010 is National Playground Safety Week, sponsored by the National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS). Now I have to admit to a little skepticism (ok, a lot) about this at first.  I firmly believe in parks, public playgrounds, and kids playing.  I think they need more! But the mission of the NPPS is [...]

GUEST BLOG When my dearest friend, Jamie, asked me to guest blog on her beautiful newly created site, I was a little shocked.  She knows I’m not nearly as good of a writer as she, but still she must have thought I might have something to talk about that people want to hear.  So, I [...]

I think I’m getting the hang of this “blogging” thing and there’s several new features I’m excited to share with you. First, I’ve added an RSS feed button on the upper left side column for anyone who just can’t get enough of my life.  Never miss a post!  (Hopefully it works!)  Don’t worry, I know [...]

It’s amazing to me how much money we spend on games and toys when my kids can entertain themselves all afternoon with a piece of baling twine and a rock. Like playing hide and seek in the tractor bucket… This kept them busy for 30 minutes before I even came over to find them!  I [...]

Meet the Ladybug. Actually, I usually just call her Lady or Bug.  Or sweet pea.  Or succotash.  Or honey bunches of oats.  Or Ruby Tuesday.  Or Rubix Cube. Lately she likes to call herself “a big K5 girl.”  Apparently kindergarten has made quite an impression.  I worried how the end of K5 might affect her [...]

We watched Food Inc. last night on PBS.  Totally worth the time if you get a chance!  The simple fact is that you are what you eat.  And if you’re omnivorous, then you are what you eat ate. Most of our grocery store food is junk.  Period.  It was grown using chemical junk, fed chemical [...]

There’s a lot of whining involved in being 3.  This is something that I probably knew when I was 3 but had thankfully forgotten until the last few years.  But whining aside, our oldest boy is pretty fearless (it’s a little scary, actually) and pretty tough.  Here he is going after his sister on Saturday… [...]

I’ve posted before about how we make our kids work and do chores around the house.  They were big helpers this past weekend too.  Not so much with the fencing… although our middle child was usually in the thick of things with his daddy… But I consider following the rules, playing together nicely, and not [...]