The Big Sweed - not the Bigs Weed LOL I love these Hive posts and all the people here!

What an amazing post! How hardworking, resourceful, and ambitious you are! This is a sight I can identify with. Three years after the derecho, a massive oak toppled, only a few feet from the cabin my husband

Oooh, you have spalted maple!! So did my dad. He made some furniture out of the tree he'd cut down. The Amana Colonies charges a king's ransom for furniture built from this intriguing wood, with the inky

Fabulous photos and wow, I LOVE the narrative! "After a minute the swan had made its way across the pond and I was in for a treat" - apparently because the swan was hoping for a treat, but you

Oh I love this. (Do you too stock your freezer with venison? I can just read more of your posts to find out!) Facebook shared:

Thank you so much!! I'm still extremely frugal - much more so than my peers - but to my parents, I would always look like a big spender. Dad would only buy the cheapest appliances and electronics, then

You mill your own wood...? Eastern hemlock... My dad cut down a walnut tree and had it planed (milled?). He made a few little magazine racks but let the rest sit for decades. At the auction, the whole

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Ohhhhh I am so sorry. We hear it gets easier over time, or less difficult, but no, I find myself missing my sisters MORE and more with each year - not less. Rose Kennedy said it well. (She who lost so

Thanks. :) I can see from your daily freewrites that WORK work work WORK is what you do, and you do it so well!! I'm in awe of you! Work is good for us - although it can also grind us down with arthritis

Thank you! :)

Ohhh I'm so sorry. We write of our grief, and others read of our grief, nodding, knowing. And sobbing themselves to sleep. Oh I feel for you!!! Yes, of course, I prefer to read of miracles and happy endings.

I almost attended a mushroom music concert but alas it was not to be Now that's a provocative statement. :) A mushroom concert....? Instead of ear plugs, you'd need hearing aids....? Or you just need PlantWave

Five minutes... OF COURSE I had to go back in an edit the next day. It's what I do...

NOTE: My grandpa's first tractor got sold at the auction, but not my husband's painting of Gpa on Tractor!! (A friend had misread that.) I would not sell original artwork especially of a subject so near

Great to see you too, @litguru, thanks! And I agree: most of us lack that knack for communing with nature. Sounds like you may have read the opening pages of that book...? It's wild to think some people

Your bunny rescue - the little fellow is still here! You must be taking really good care of him, given how low the survival rate is for baby bunnies. Thanks to your dog's wicked kill-kill-kill instinct,

Unaware of the source of her children's illness, poor Agnes is left to suffer the consequences. O'Farrell writes, "There is a part of her that would like to wind up time, to gather it in like yarn.

I have not read it - but I will! Set in Stratford, England, in the late 16th century, Hamnet imagines the emotional, domestic, and artistic repercussions after the world's most famous (though never named)

For the first time in forever, I've tackled a 5-minute freewrite. How many months has it been...? #ThankYou @freewritehouse for being there all year round, Day #2,212!