Do you ever think about your food choices as you walk your grocery store aisles? I do. After returning from an Easter road trip to Colorado to see my sister and her family, a visit to our one and only local grocery store was in order. In addition to family meals, I had volunteered to cook for our son Hunter’s…
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One of the greatest advantages to living in rural America is the chance to give our kids a simple country lifestyle. We live far from city lights and traffic jams. Kids have the opportunity to participate in numerous activities, and oftentimes no one is cut from the team. If you want to join, there’s a spot for you, whether it’s…
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I was asked by the publisher of our local newspaper to write a story about GMO technology. People often ask me why do farmers plant GMO crops? What crops are GMO’s? Headlines confuse them and they want answers from people they trust. It would have been easiest to say no to my local newspaper and not add it to my plate….
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17 Cloverbuds from our Lil’ Stampede 4-H Club came to visit Pinke Lumber, our family business on a Sunday afternoon, the first day of spring. Many parents stayed as helpers. My husband had our back shop tables organized with our wood arts project, cut-outs of each child’s traced hand which we had done at a prior meeting to be sanded,…
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For the past five years, my mother-in-law, Carol, has prepared homemade meals on basketball game days at her house for our son, Hunter. When we started this tradition, his graduation in 2016 seemed so far away. I knew it would come in an end, though—and it did a couple weeks ago. Hunter started playing varsity basketball in eighth grade. He…
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