Lessons from the forest

This month our Compassion daughter graduated from the Compassion program.  Last Friday I wrote our last letter to her.  I knew she would be graduating soon … and I was totally expecting this day to come.  But I…

The thing about splitting logs is that the more knotty the rounds, the more violently-forceful the result!  Just the sound of the “crack!” as the round splits can be downright frightening!  Especially when your face is right down…

I was splitting logs with hubby, pushing the buttons on the log-splitter while hubby did the heavy-lifting, when one of the log chunks flew back unexpectedly and hit my hand.  It stung in the moment, but I didn’t…

We have lots of Big Leaf Maple trees in our forest.  Big Leaf Maple trees are aggressive!  Big Leaf Maple stumps refuse to die ... continuing to prolifically send out new shoots year after year!  Big Leaf Maples…

Last week we had a couple of large cedar trees trimmed and tidied, as well as a couple of hazardous hemlocks taken down.  As a result, we now have a wonderful amount of bark chips for spreading throughout…

A bird decided to build its nest in the car barn … directly over top of our car.  My immediate “blink” reaction was to remove that nest!  As soon as possible!  How dare that bird build its nest…

Yesterday I was deeply bothered all day as I prayed for our good friends and their daughter who is undergoing brain surgery today. In the afternoon I stepped outside to toss some wilted flowers onto the compost heap,…

I was headed out the driveway this morning when something bright caught my eye off to the side.  A small rhododendron which we had planted last Spring has a solitary white bloom!  This is in the same corner…

It is 40 degrees this morning … still … here as May is approaching its end.  Little basil sprouts do not like 40 degrees.  I had moved them outside to big pots on the deck at the beginning…