The Huckleberry Roadside Massacre

“Can you hear it?” I called down the stairs to wake up my kids. Two sleepy voices from their bedrooms called back out to me. “The call of the huckleberry!” This has become a family tradition, when we are about to go huckleberry picking. We were taken out years ago when the kids were small […]

You want me to do what? A challenge.

Aaah, June! The birds are working hard raising their babies, the bees are ambling around the flower beds humming while they work, and everything is green with energetic growth. What a joy to put my bare feet into the garden soil and plant seeds with the anticipation that they will grow! Do you know, I […]

Natural house cleaners really can do the job!

Germs? Bleach it! Toilets? Bleach them!! Grimy sinks? Bleach them!!! . Seriously, I think you can see the trend here. I was a bleach girl. Bleach was my “Go To” product for just about everything. I knew bleach killed germs and I didn’t trust anything else to go to war against them. However, as my […]