Rural Revolution

Today it's official! I'm married again! Ha ha, let me explain. This is my wedding ring. It's a simple gold band with an imperial topaz bezel-set into the band. This ring was custom-made by...

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I guess today is Earth Day, right? Yawn. Most Earth Day celebrations are empty bits of nonsense. However Don and I did something fairly extraordinary today, something I suppose could be attribu...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/meet-maggie.html

Our strawberries are starting to bloom. We don't expect ripe fruit for a while yet, but it's yet another sure sign of spring. At her European duty station, Younger Daughter has a balco...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/alternative-strawberries.html

Tiny homes are all the rage lately. We know a business in which building tiny homes is a brand-new side project. This is the company's first completed project, custom-tailored to one customer's s...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/inside-tiny-home.html

I heard this morning that Samantha Davis, wife of actor Warwick Davis, has passed away at the age of 53. Most celebrity tragedies kinda go in one ear and out the other, but this one hit me ...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/the-sad-end-to-beautiful-love-story.html

Despite being in the middle of a chilly spell (windy, scattered rain, high of 50F), spring is indisputably here. One of the surest signs is the blossoming of the arrow-leaf balsamroot. T...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/signs-of-spring.html

Thank you all for the well-wishes during my recent bad head cold . Except for a lingering cough, I'm feeling much better. And I'm over halfway done with my NaNoWriMo project ! I just logged in ...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/nanowrimo-update.html

Just some random pix of Mr. Darcy at leisure. It's hard to believe this little puppy dog is now a middle-aged gentleman. We brought him home in August of 2017 , so he's already seven years old. ...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/darcy-at-leisure.html

I'm sick. I blame this very bad head cold on Don, who got it first and felt absolutely lousy for a few days. It was inevitable that I should get it next. It's the usual head cold symptoms: sc...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/sick-sniffle-cough.html

Don stumbled upon a map of England depicting a cross-country trip across the length and breath of England. The trip lasted fifteen hours and doubled back and forth, zigzagging across the nation. ...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/england-vs-idaho.html

An older gentleman in our church passed away late last week, and his funeral is this Friday (Don is a pallbearer). I was asked to make some chocolate-chip cookies for after the service. Lots of c...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/chocolate-chip-cookies-production-style.html

America went stark raving crazy over today's solar eclipse.  Oh the ridiculous conspiracy theories that abounded over what was, after all, a common and predictable event! We could expect earthqu...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/eclipse-o-mania.html

Years ago I read a story. It seems a Vegas showgirl, who stood a stately five-foot-eleven-inches in height, was regularly met at the stage door by a man who was barely five-foot-six. He always br...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/in-praise-of-short-men.html

Our blueberry bushes are budding like mad. The harvest promises to be good. Last year we picked sixteen pounds of berries from these fairly young bushes, which I canned up . However I had...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/an-excuse-to-use-up-some-blueberries.html

Yesterday (Tuesday) was gloriously beautiful: sunny, warm, high of 72F. We actually put the hanging screen door back on. But all that changed today and rain moved in. Lots of rain. Yester...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/rain-and-more-rain.html

I'm still waiting on the next multi-book contract from my editor at Harlequin. Apparently she's swamped and hasn't gotten around to negotiating with my agent, so I've been playing the waiting gam...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/04/tackling-camp-nanowrimo.html

As many of you know, I'm a fanatic when it comes to backing up my laptop . My dad (a computer expert and retired electrical engineer) hammered that wisdom into my brain years ago, and I've never ...

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On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, t...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/he-is-risen.html

I saw a new bird at the feeder today. At first I thought it was a black-headed grosbeak, but not with those red eyes (and white chest). The beak was also too dark. It proved to be ...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/a-new-visitor-to-bird-feeder.html

I hate shopping. I've always hated shopping. You've already seen my interest in clothing , so imagine my deeper disinterest in designer clothing. But not many share this indifference. Consider t...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/straight-out-of-confessions-of.html

Back in 2016, I quietly decided to try a lifestyle experiment: zero-waste living. This project originally came about due to Older Daughter's influence. She was working as a live-in nanny in...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/what-ever-happened-to-zero-waste.html

We've been following the terrible bridge collapse in Baltimore. In addition to the tragic loss of life, it looks like the entire eastern seaboard might be impacted. Snippets from this articl...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/baltimore-bridge-collapse.html

Don found this online: a war-era (1940) poster encouraging people to grow food: In this era where governments are doing everything possible to shut down large and small farms (here and here...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/cant-argue.html

In early March, when we had some blustery storms during which we lost power for about 30 hours, we relied primarily on our oil lamps at night. I love oil lamps. I've loved them since I was ...

http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/03/genesis-13.html

Have you ever had one of those days when you're incredibly productive? Yeah, today was that kind of day. My work week starts on Thursday (I work an online job Thursday through Saturday). They'r...

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