I don’t crave what most people would classify as exciting events in my life.  I crave (and thankfully receive many) simple, quiet moments.  Those events shake my foundation not because they are exciting but rather because they are full of deep importance.  I crave simple routine full of love and passion.   Moments that may seem simple [...]

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.  ~James Thurber There’s a saying that if you don’t like the weather in Montana, wait five minutes.  Yesterday that was pretty much more accurate than any weather report you’d ever read.  The morning started out a bit rainy, then [...]

Sometimes you just need to allow the random tidbits of life to take center stage: You know when you’re driving on icy, deer infested roads and there’s someone right on your rear bumper and its just driving you mad.   And finally that someone passes you and sprays your windshield with gravel and dirty snow and continues [...]

I spend a little time every day that it doesn’t rain in the garden, right now I spend that time weeding and mulching, weeding mostly.  It’s par for the course in every gardener’s life I imagine.  This time spent in the garden is a sacred part of my day – sometimes I spend it with Jeff [...]

There are certain days when I feel most connected to the world around me because of the animals that cross my path and share our home. Meggy loves to be outside but has the most sensitive paws and can’t take the cold of the deep snow.  We think she suffered some frostbite before we adopted [...]

I had an email from a reader who wanted to know how we handled lending money to family members from our savings.  It’s a great question and I know there are no easy answers here.  Jeff and I don’t lend money, period.  It wasn’t always this way, we used to lend money but haven’t done [...]

 Remember my “Where the Rubber Meets the Road” post last week?  I mentioned wanting to teach cooking from scratch classes to folks receiving food from the food bank, well yesterday as I was reading the Mountain Trader(a weekly advertisement newspaper think print version of Craigslist long before Craigslist existed) and the opportunity for me to [...]

A few things I’ve been doing lately to make sure I’m not just talking about my values but putting action behind my words and values We picked up our locally and free-range raised turkeys Monday.  I got two; one for the freezer and one for the Thanksgiving feast.  They were $1.69 a pound, 20 cents per [...]

I talk about being self-sufficient alot here at Two Frog Home, but in all honesty, I don’t believe in 100% self-sufficiency.  I think people need community, I believe its hard-wired into the very fabric of our souls or our DNA, if you’re the more scientific type.  I believe we can create and do a lot [...]

In the car last week, I stumbled across a parenting show on the radio.  Normally I would have turned it off rather immediately, because I’m not a parent, but something apparently caught my attention and I listened for a while.  The message was based on this idea that every day and everything you do as [...]