What’s the Haps?

Here in late July 2021, we find ourselves having embarked on another ‘I’ll only do this once’ project [...]

I’m not certain what lit a fire under TSH crew today but we are just AWASH in a [...]

Miss Reba Reece and her late husband Al have been a part of our home and heart for [...]

Jerome has the privilege of being the smallest Humane Society ever to receive a grant from the Bob [...]

Just so you know we continue to scramble with and for the Food Bank, last week we tackled [...]

Most of you know that we made a commitment on my home’s 100th birthday to the next yet-to-be-determined steward [...]

Recent long-term guests, Roabie and Jerry Johnson, were visiting the Verde Valley to honor Jerry’s mother, Anna Johnson’s [...]

The end of March saw us enduring yet another assault by the javelina resulting in the devastation of [...]

Nearly anyone who has visited The Surgeon’s House knows that the current owner is absolutely over-the-moon gaga for all things [...]

You know we make diligent attempts to live in harmony with our wild furry critters but they recently [...]

Every week our arrival at the food bank is filled with anticipation and surprise as we never know [...]

We recently enjoyed a long-overdue return visit from guests Mary Alice and Jim Fox, both artists.  When they were here [...]

We continue to stretch our wings for and with the Food Bank volunteers and recipients.  This time, Ann [...]

If you’re following us in The Evolving Morsel section of the site, then you know that Miss [...]

The last snow dump at the end of January was heavy and deep.  As we struggled to [...]

We just couldn’t help ourselves in adding the final touch to the kitchen update.  We have always [...]

Twenty-eight years ago we painted the kitchen walls and cabinets for OUR first time, then over 15 years [...]

The Food Bank crew went way out on a limb this week in tackling what were ‘reported’ to [...]

Here we are towards the end of January and out come the snow shovels and sidewalk salt, the [...]

Time’s fun when you’re having flies is another way of saying that time sort of gets away from [...]

I honestly had to shake myself when it occurred to me that we have been participating in the [...]

Every now and again, we are graced with a gifting from a guest who has some treasured object, [...]

Two years ago, we began observing three raccoons that always arrived together.  One of them we immediately named Stubbs [...]

On our mountain, we really notice how low in the sky the sun sits during the colder months [...]