A hi, how are you pop in fill in missive!

A whirlwind of a car delivery activity!

A little restorative blip in the radar of life's unending chaos

I got hit with quite a metaphorical snow ball last Friday.

A gap in posts from me usually means only one thing, life is a little bit extra.

I'm sure it has a lot to do with the season, but oof, my motivation be lagging these days. I mean, some of my meh attitude may be due to the reality that as I did my school schedule for the week this morning

Shenanigans ensued this past weekend...

For one forty-eight hour stretch between Friday morning and Saturday night, I was quite the whirling Kat-dervish. Our soon to be son-in-law's twenty-first birthday was this past week, and last year I made

My little reprieve is rapidly coming to an end. This pause has been so restorative, but also it has made me not want to push quite so hard all the time. I am sure many of you feel that way when you finally

After an intense last decade, and an especially insane last year, I have had an opportunity to just stop. The holiday hustle is over, school doesn't resume til the 20th, and I have removed myself from

Yesterday, it assaulted us with all manner of powdery floof, and as I looked out the window this morning upon arising, I may have uttered (okay bellowed), "FINALLY!!!" You see, the weather has

Even though, as a farmer, rancher, homesteader, I tend to think of spring as the start of the new year, this time of year I do tend to get a bit pensive about what's ahead of me and what is to come. I

Wow. To say my year went out with a bang is an understatement. I left the ranch on Sunday the 28th and didn't stop hurtling until last night when I returned to the ranch. Let's just say Zoomers live up

Tomorrow I shall be loading my Jeep Liberty chariot with all the goodies I have crafted over the last forty-eight hours and hurtle down the mountain with the hubs to our farm for a five day family time

The corg and I put in about 3-5 miles of wilderness walking most days, and I have to say, I really do quite adore it. Especially right now with a new dusting of perfectly white powder snow almost daily.

Things have been a touch on the blustery side as of late, which in part explains my absence, that and I couldn't get a post I wrote a few days ago to upload and had to bolt to town for three days of fun

I have discovered it! The difference between the biological sexes! The Cranberry Conundrum! Yes, I may sound a bit beyond high strung and more than slightly insane, but honestly, this discovery is ground

Moments ago, I finished class #3 out of 4. Yesterday, I thought I was already done with one class as I finished up class #2, when suddenly, as I checked my assignments for that class, I saw two MORE

You know, taking four days off really is quite restorative. Okay, I only took four days off from SCHOOL, I still did a ton of stuff really. The first two days of my vacation I spent catching up on things

Usually this time of year encompasses a whole host of planning in my realm. Thanksgiving is busy enough, but our son's birthday is usually one to three days on the other side of Thanksgiving depending