This is a blog all about our old fashioned modern life on our small family farm in the Ozarks. Sunday, March 4, 2012. We have moved to a new site. Saturday, March 3, 2012. Do you ever find yourself hustling and bustling through life, hurrying to get one thing done so that you can rush on and do the next thing on the list? Sometimes, when this happens, I have to hit the pause button! Saturday, February 25, 2012.

Friends, please follow me in my continuing journey for greater health and a happy life. I have decided to move my blog over to something that is more fully-encompassing of the content I write. College Graduation and Now What? May 20, 2015.

Then I put them away. I am much more likely to remember what I received and really thank the person in a meaningful way later on.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, from garden, kitchen and restaurant,. Great grub abounds in the Ozarks and at Moonmooring! November 19, 2016.

Thursday, December 22, 2011. Waltzing Matilda arrived on Monday. I was not on this tow from Islamorada to NILA, but it sounds like Yazzettie had quite the adventure, and I now know how much she weighs! There is plenty of painting and haul out work to be done, after all she was in the water for all but 24 hours of two years. The adventures are on pause, perhaps Matilda has had her last grand adventure and will be a daysailer for the rest of her life. Monday, September 5, 2011.

October 10, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress. Once upon a time there was another press, called Elder Mountain, the creation of two women, one a writer and one an artist. The artist is no more, and neither is that endeavor, the name having passed on to the Elder Mountain Journal, a publication of Missouri State University-West Plains. The writer from Elder Mountain is now a solo act, and this is her journal. Posted in Bits and Pieces. Coming soon from Yarnspinner Press.

How I Got To Greece. I said no, then went anyway. I stayed three weeks, she stayed four. This is a work in progress and these are my photos, notes and scribbles from the trip. This photo taken on a plastic patio table and without flash. Peering at Santorini first thing in a morning, out my port, on a wooden sailing ship.