It is possible that no one has ever put these words together in a sentence... At PETEnELLA, we aspire to be a multi-generational worm...

Accept that others may question your choices on how you spend your time and resources.  It might not seem to make much sense to poor out...

I had a sweet co-worker with whom I shared this oft-spoke statement, "I did a thing!" No matter the size or intricacy of the task, when...

May 14: Just ordered 2350 little critters for our little farm and growing garden project! If you had told me that before the chickens,...

Due to an unexpected apple tree delivery, Peter  and I made a quick trip down to Riklig Ström to get it in the ground and tend to the...

Weekend update from Riklig Ström... Tilda and Torvald the Toads are nowhere to be found. It was hot and dry for most of the week, and the...

Meet Tilda and Torvald, the Fowler Toads, who gave me a little jump early this morning when I was weeding our garden. Friends who know me...

Prepping worm grit for our Gerards. Baking egg shells at 300 degrees for 10 minutes, then crushing them as fine as I can make them. We...

It is still a work in progress and the grass is more like a hayfield in sections, but to look out our back door at our other house and...

How does our garden grow? With green beans, jalapeños, bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, radishes, basil, chives,...

As of today, this cute little house in the woods in Spotsylvania County, not too far from Lake Anna, is ours! Our prayer is that this...

As a child on the High Plains, I associated the term ‘monsoon’ with the rainy season in tropical regions, specifically Southeast Asia....

My father’s Silver Bells anthology was extensive. At some point he began “collecting” versions of this well-known (and cheesy) mid-20th...

Merry Christmas! Here’s a picture of a half-devoured fish to bring that extra special bit of Christmas cheer. There’s a first time for...

While the porch light still shines and the Christmas tree yet declares its brilliance through our living room window, the front of the...

(If you’d like to read the previous Iceland post, click:  Piece of Cod ) One more moment to consider the Icelandic realm–on the night...

American’s have a penchant for humorous T-shirts. My father-in-law owns a shirt inspired by the Swedish heritage we share.  It declares:...

Even in the direst of circumstances, the instinct toward survival is not so easily suppressed. A young, probably first year buck that...

“We had eight-hundred acres, just about fifteen miles south of Fort Collins, at least where the town sat when I was a boy. My granddad...

Photo: Ella’s sister ice skating on an Illinois pond — approximately 1980. My field: As I’ve written, our rattly parsonage circa 1905 sat...