Homestead Happenings

A lull between storms If I had known it would be this cold in June, I would have replanted the peas and spinach. Well, I don’t know about th...

  We have so little popcorn this year as something got so much of it before we gathered it in. Nearly half of it must have been gone when Ma...

We were in town all last week while Mike attended the NAIA World Series. Our local Lewis Clark State College lost out early in the week, but...

I have a childhood memory of my sister Nina explaining to her boyfriend that everyone says “ketchup,” but the word is really “catsup.” I’m n...

Same house, different era After Grandpa Jack Dobson died in 1946, their daughter Myrtle came to the farm to serve as Ina’s caregiver. In lat...

  We have about three feet of snow and it is cold. It began piling up week before last and we have had sub-zero weather off and on ever si...

  Cottonwood Butte from Gilbert Cemetery It was cold this morning as Mike and I visited the Gilbert Cemetery with two fresh bouquets – one...