What a weekend! I feel like I'm back in my rhythm, ready again for whatever each new day brings. I had to go to the shop on Saturday mor...

If I could isolate one part of our home that facilitates our way of living the most it would be our roof.  There has been a lot going on up ...

Another email has me writing today about homemaking. It's popular topic here, mainly because it is valued, but also, I believe, becaus...

Before I write today's post I want to let everyone know Hanno and I, and our family, are all fine.  I received an avalanche of emails ov...

This is a tough one. How do you decide who will do what in the home. If you're a retired couple like we are, the division tends to take...

What is it they say about hindsight? I thought we'd be perfectly happy with our sink when we had it redone a couple of years ago. We h...

It's taken a while but I finally feel like I'm back in my daily homemaker's rhythm. When Hanno was in Germany those five week...

Most of you know that we live in the sub tropics and one of the reasons we chose this area to live in was the annual rainfall. It wasn'...

A kitchen is like the engine on a car; it drives the house.  We spend a lot of time in our kitchens preparing meals, making cups of tea, bak...

The weekend came and went with housework being done, a few phone calls and only one visitor. My housework always just rolls along and curve...