home JEJ The Shed Notebook: Motivation to Clean the Bathroom Now what in the world would give any sane person motivation to really deep clean a bathroom? My motivation was a visit from the contractor. Shawn ca… Read more
cats computer dogs The Shed Notebook: The Mysteries of Grayson, Frontier Internet, and All That is Missing Our house has been surrounded by some strange mysteries this month. Grayson is our big, beautiful, fluffy gray cat. We have a cat door in the baseme… Read more
dogs Kellogg winter The Shed Notebook: Top Ten Things I Dislike When It Is Below Ten Degrees In Kellogg we went from a few days that felt like spring to a blizzard, ten inches of snow, then temperatures that dropped way below freezing. Thes… Read more
Cataldo Mission sister writing Fifty-Two Cups of Poetry: The First Chapter During the time I first composed this poem my sister Carol was doing research and beginning the writng of a historical novel. As I shared in my last… Read more
memoir The Shed Notebook writing The Shed Notebook: The Eleventh Anniversary Eleven years ago yesterday I began writing this blog. In that time I have written 2030 posts. When I started my blog it was for the purpose of keepi… Read more
comfort food recipe The Shed Notebook: Comfort Food Usually on Sunday we hold family dinner . Today we thought we were going to be gone, Bill thought at one point he might be picking up The Deke, so w… Read more
photo images photography sunset The Shed Notebook The Shed Notebook: Obsession With Sunsets When we lived in northeastern Washington we didn't ever see sunsets from our house. The mountains blocked them. We had lovely sunrises, but no s… Read more
Australian Cattle Dog dogs Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier The Shed Notebook:Best Buddies Our Springer Spaniel Annie died last June. When we decided to get a brother for Tucker, we decided on a Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier. Tucker is an Au… Read more
52 Cups of Poetry poetry Fifty-Two Cups of Poetry: Poem #3: Behind the Shed Last week I began the Fifty-Two Cups of Poetry project. You can read it here. I think all of us has some place that things just end up being stashed… Read more
bouquet photography The Shed Notebook The Shed Notebook: Photography Review Sometimes I get overwhelmed with all the pictures I have stored. I have never done a good job at labeling pictures, but at least I named folders and… Read more
spring The Shed Notebook winter The Shed Notebook: Am I Ready to Garden? With all the rain this week, I looked around my front flower beds looking for signs of spring bulbs. No bulbs. What did I find? All the weeds that d… Read more
friend health The Shed Notebook The Shed Notebook: Making a New Friend Today I made a new friend. It is hard to decide whether a person should be a new friend at this time in life. They need to be honest, sincere, share… Read more
The Extraordinary Accomplishments of Helen Keller Recently when this picture was found of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan it reminded me of my lifelong interest in this… Keep reading
Strawbale Gardening: A New Project! We have an area close to our potato patch that needs a border. We really didn't want another fence. JEJ had already… Keep reading
What's That Smell in the Kitchen?:Favoite Poem by Marge Piercy Mom used to make a basic potato soup that was so delicious. It contained potatoes, celery, onion, and evaporated milk… Keep reading
Sibling Assignment # 31 : Annie, Sandy, and Goosebumps This week for our sibling assignment we were to write about a memorable musical . Sunday Scribblings word is Goosebump… Keep reading