One of the things I love about Christmas is how people set out to make things beautiful. They add sparkle and light things up. There are colors, textures, and sounds and stories in homes and workplaces that aren’t enjoyed the rest of the year.
There’s both a sense of nostalgia and of history-making. New things are [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Day to Day’
December 17, 2009
Beautiful things at Christmas
November 24, 2009
Gotta use those college writing skills somehow
Today we (I) made up a story using some of Ian’s bath toys:
Vino the Velociraptor and Bilbo the Brontosaurus were arguing over who was going to get that delicious jurassic-looking plant they were both eyeing. Vino thought it would go quite nicely with his cab sauv while Bilbo insisted (in a very Tookish sort of way) that he needed [...]
November 20, 2009
It’s been three weeks so I’ve got to give an update
I don’t think either of these photos really do justice to showing how incredibly wet we (I mean I) got yesterday. My shoes were completely soaked through to the point where I stopped every trying to dodge through the massive puddles and just went right through them. Ian stayed dry thanks to the BOB’s trusty rain shield.
Yes, [...]
October 1, 2009
Fall is here
Summer is gone. This is what the end looked like. I think it had a nice way of saying goodbye.
Fall is officially underway. Of course there was that Saturday a few weeks ago when I thought it had arrived and thus made pumpkin soup and bread bowls on what turned out to be an 80-degree day. With [...]
August 27, 2009
Annette Lake hike
Jason decided it was high time we went for a hike, since we’ve been saying we want to, the summer’s almost over, and our behinds still hadn’t made it up any mountains.
I use the past tense hadn’t instead of haven’t, because that is no longer the case. We hiked up to Annette Lake this last Saturday. The [...]
July 29, 2009
Seattle Meltdown 2009
Here are some facts you may not have known about our current weather crisis.
everyone who has ever said “Swimming in Greenlake . . . eww gross!” has currently bombarded the lake’s beaches and submerged their pasty white bodies in its questionable waters
the employees at the Ballard Fred Meyer currently answer the phone with “This is [...]
July 21, 2009
Less internet, or in other words, living life
It has been almost three weeks since I last posted. That is too long. I would say we are busy, which we are, but I’ve also just gotten out of the blogging groove. This is partly because being on the internet was starting to feel like it was sucking the life out of [...]
July 2, 2009
Haggard homesteading
Although I haven’t spoken much about it in a while, the homesteading continues on here at the Haggard Ranch.
As you can see from the video back in May we were about to plant a full garden complete with corn, strawberries, and all kinds of leafy greens from seed as well as [...]
May 27, 2009
The results are in
Our chickens will henceforth be named . . .
Soup & Salad
After that announcement I feel like I should grab my broomstick and go out back to knight my chickens or something.
We’ve decided the bigger one will be Salad because salads need to be big to be filling. And the smaller one will be Soup [...]
May 25, 2009
Memorial Day 2009
By Jason
It is Memorial Day 2009. Memorial Day is always an interesting holiday for me. It didn’t mean much more to me than a day off of school/work, until Iraq and Christian’s death. In Iraq a friend, Bruce Smith, died in a helicopter crash. Years later, my good friend Christian Skoglund [...]
