My garden did not do well this year, but I still managed to get some canning done.  Mostly because our apple tree was loaded this year, but ...

Last month, the Cort and Reid turned 8.  Some of you have been reading about them on this blog since they were four months old!  Most of the...

Before the boys returned to school, we took a four day camping trip at Holliday Lake State Park.  I ran an ultramarathon there years ago, an...

This summer when the boys were at camp for a week, Paul and I did a kayaking trip down the James River one day.  Paul dropped me and the kay...

This is my last post to share from our trip to Tucson.  On July 4, after a visit to the Arizona-Sonora desert museum, we decided to drive th...

When we were in Tucson, we left early one morning to visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  The drive there was one of the most beautiful ...

While we were in Arizona, we took a trip to Oracle.  There, we toured an historic ranch house at the Oracle state park. The boys enjoyed ...