I served as caregiver for my parents from Nov 1998 until Sep 21 2007. I am making my own porch now. Thursday, November 20, 2008. My final post to this blog. I began posting to this blog on Monday, July 9, 2007. This is my 417th post according to Blogger. There have been more than 31,000 visitor sessions.

Stories about life on the homestead, spinning, knitting, gardening, caregiving and whatever else comes up. Sunday, March 11, 2012. I test knit a shawl for a friend. It is designed to use one skein of Noro or colorful sock yarn, but I did it in some barely colored handspun. That has been marinating in the stash for some time. The pattern is available on Ravelry here. These photos were the best I could do, as it has been very windy here. Spring on the prairie, you know.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Of the trailer, pilled high with cotton.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009. The extra nice part this year is that my best friend from college was here for a few days. her husband ran in a marathon on sunday so it has been nice to get together and catch up with her and her family. Take a deep breath, think happy thoughts and take care everyone. Sunday, November 1, 2009. i have found myself saying a prayer that they will be the fortunate ones. Rabbit rabbit everyone and way to go today brett! And of course be.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Nearly a year has passed since my last entry. So many events have transpired in my life since then - the worst being an emergency appendectomy gone awry. A blood clot followed by an abscess and an allergic reaction to the pain meds led to weeks in the hospital. Oh, and I nearly forgot the collapsed lung. I felt my world was spiraling out of control and there was no way to stop it. Wednesday, October 7, 2009. I took the plunge and enrolled in online classes.