by Molly Sutton | Feb 18, 2021 | Featured, Stories
I have always loved building things. I grew up helping my dad around the house, then with church volunteer projects, and now I flip furniture in my spare time. In high school I started thinking it would be really fun to buy a vintage Airstream trailer, gut it,...
by Molly Sutton | Jan 25, 2021 | DIY Ideas
The lights have been taken down, the Christmas music has stopped playing and all that is left is your tree. What to do with your amazing-smelling Douglas fir which brought you so much joy—glistening in your living room, decorated floor to ceiling in glittering lights...
by Kendall Baldwin | Dec 22, 2020 | Stories
My memories of raising chickens are happy ones. My parents would bring us three siblings to the feed store, where they would sell chicks each spring in a long row of boxes, one for each breed. They stuck a picture of each full grown chicken on the box so we could see...
by Kendall Baldwin | Dec 22, 2020 | Stories
The great thing about raising chickens was the satisfaction of routine and consistency, and the ultimate payout of fresh eggs. It was the same familiar, exciting process every year: Each spring we would return to the feed store and pick out another chick. One year,...
by Kendall Baldwin | Dec 22, 2020 | Stories
We had a chicken funeral once, which was most memorable because my little brother almost burned out my eye with a stick of incense. Our dad was trying to teach us a Chinese tradition that he had learned as a kid: At a funeral you light incense, hold it between...
by Kendall Baldwin | Dec 22, 2020 | Stories
During World War II, in the early 1940s, I was just a little girl. My dad was in the Navy, stationed in the South Pacific, and my mom, grandmother, brother and I lived in San Diego. Everyone I knew had “Victory Gardens,” to grow a lot of our own food, since so much...
