by Lanier Ivester | Feb 14, 2023 | Journal Entries, Uncategorized
The phone calls started the night before and continued well into the morning: “Are you going?” “Do you think the roads will be safe?” “What does your husband say? What does your mother say?” I had been watching the weather forecasts just as intently as everyone else....
by Lanier Ivester | Nov 2, 2021 | Journal Entries, Stories, Uncategorized
This flurry of plansis over, over.And I’m sorry and glad together.Our bustling houseis sane now, sane now.And I’m sorry and glad together.”Sorry and Glad Together,” Karen Peris This lyric by Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission perfectly...
by Lanier Ivester | Nov 26, 2018 | Farm Life, Journal Entries
I started this post on Saturday and only finished it today. But here’s a glimpse into our Thanksgiving–easily the most meaningful of my life. I do hope that each of you had a special and restful holiday… Oh, how I love this time of year; this happy...
by Lanier Ivester | Oct 27, 2018 | Journal Entries
Dear Friends, Greetings on this October afternoon-almost-evening. I’m sitting in the den with my tea, windows open to the brisk sweetness of an autumn breeze and the house fragrant around me with the scent of tonight’s pot roast supper. From the barnyard comes the...
by Lanier Ivester | Jan 12, 2018 | Farm Life, Journal Entries
Just popping in to say that I’ve finally completed and dispatched the first installment in what I hope will be a weekly newsletter chronicling our restoration story. I’m still overwhelmed by your response to my query, and I sincerely hope I didn’t...
by Lanier Ivester | Jan 4, 2018 | Farm Life, Journal Entries
January 3, 2018 It is the tenth day of Christmas, and the third of a brand new year. I’m sitting at my little desk in the waning light of a January day. Even from this distance, I can hear the sounds of hammerings and saws coming from the house, the occasional...
