by judyanneparker | Dec 11, 2024 | Recipes
Gingerbread Cookies Baking cookies has always been a tradition at our house at Christmas time. We bake a variety of types and make platters to give away to friends and coworkers. And of course, we make a lot for ourselves too. One of our favorite cookies is...
by judyanneparker | Nov 14, 2024 | Devotions
Uniquely Made Since we moved to Alaska, our family has had an annual snow contest every year. We each pick the date we think the first snow will fall. We have a few rules. The snow must cover the ground at our house; flurries don’t count. Snow that sticks on the...
by judyanneparker | Oct 9, 2024 | Alaska Life
If the Wood Fits My husband and I were trying to whittle away a few chores off our “honey-do” list and were stacking wood into one of our woodsheds. Ladd usually tries to get all the wood approximately the same length for easier stacking, but some of them were...
by judyanneparker | Sep 16, 2024 | Devotions
What Others Think I’m standing in the river casting my fly in the water, letting it drift, then snatching it out again. Nothing is happening. No fish are biting. I plunk the line back in and watch it float down. I yank it back out. Rain starts to fall as I cast again....
by judyanneparker | Jul 15, 2024 | Recipes
Alien Rhubarb With summer’s arrival comes one of the first harvests in my garden, rhubarb. I call it alien rhubarb because some of the leaves and stalks on these plants are ginormous. I suppose they grow so big because of the massive amount of sunlight we get in the...
