PJ Jonas

You know, it just doesn’t seem like Autumn until you’ve raked some leaves. When we bought our 3 acres, there were no trees on it – except for a few pines in the back corner. We’ve planted many fruit trees and several nut trees, but they are still very small and don’t produce enough leaves…

Yesterday, Daddy and Fletcher had some special time. The brakes went out on the truck, so the two of them drove the truck to the mechanics. They left it there and went exploring. Guess what they found? A bridge. Being intrepid explorers, they crossed the bridge and followed the path beyond to… The elementary school…

We love Farmer Frazier. He lives half a mile from our house. We buy our hay from him. He and his wife are absolutely wonderful. But I admit it – the first time I met Farmer Frazier, I was terrified of him. Not because I thought he would hurt me. It was because he didn’t…

We do a lot with dirt. We dig in it. We play in it. We garden in it. We eat it (well, not all of us, just the little ones). The dirt in Indiana is lousy. It is solid clay with lots of shale. Not very good for gardening. So we do raised beds. But…

I tried, really I tried not to allow these two into the house (the chairs, not the children 🙂 ‘ Jim brought them home with a guilty look on his face. I banished them to the front porch for a while. Then I stuck them on the back porch. Then I tried to fit them…

I was sitting on the living room floor in front of the fire while everyone else was having breakfast. I should have been eating too, but I had slept in late and wasn’t very hungry. I looked over and saw this. It tickled my fancy, so I ran and got the camera. The children thought…

We had a sad week last week. Byron McGuire, a good friend of the family, went home to be with Jesus. Many years ago Byron took his wife and children to be missionaries in Ecuador. While there, he and his eldest son, Duvon, both became extremely ill with a water born disease. Duvon later invented…