I have to start thinking about fall...
posted 14 days ago, updated 10 minutes later | 1 comment
It's coming...I can see the signs everywhere.
The grocery is carrying fresh cider and huge piles of apples and winter squash and pumpkins.
The air is chill when I pad out to the mailbox for the morning paper and I have to put on slippers instead ...
The grocery is carrying fresh cider and huge piles of apples and winter squash and pumpkins.
The air is chill when I pad out to the mailbox for the morning paper and I have to put on slippers instead ...
Grandma's Iris
posted 4 months ago | 5 comments
I never met my Mother's mother...she died when Mom was less than a year old. I know from family stories that she wrote poetry and that she was born the same day as my Mom's Dad and joked with him about being an hour older and so, therefore, the 'b...
My Favorite Season
posted 5 months ago | 2 comments
Spring
By Steve Lucas
I know that spring is comin' boys,
let me tell you what I've seen
The grass on the slopes north of the house
has started turning green.
The snowdrift out behind the barn is
Fast meltin' away,
The cows are keepin' the...
By Steve Lucas
I know that spring is comin' boys,
let me tell you what I've seen
The grass on the slopes north of the house
has started turning green.
The snowdrift out behind the barn is
Fast meltin' away,
The cows are keepin' the...
One Room Country School
posted 6 months ago | 4 comments
Telling people that you went to a one room country school is much like telling them that you were born in a log cabin. The response is one of wonderment...can you actually be THAT old? But, I did...go to a one room country school. I was born in a ...
March Maddness!
posted 6 months ago, updated 4 days later | 1 comment
What a winter!
posted 7 months ago | 2 comments
I heard on the morning news that we set a record for the most snow in February in all of recorded time. Whoopee! I have shoveled more snow this winter than I can remember in years and now...
I am ready for it to stop!
Please!
I am ready for it to stop!
Please!
Puzzled? I'll swap with you...
posted 7 months ago | 3 comments
I love to work jigsaw puzzles...but only once. I've tried taking them apart and putting them back together but that feels a lot like reading the same book over and over.
A few weeks ago I swapped puzzles with an Eons friend in Richmond, Virginia....
A few weeks ago I swapped puzzles with an Eons friend in Richmond, Virginia....
Chicken Little Syndrome
posted 8 months ago | 3 comments
OK...I admit it. When the first rumors started hitting the groups I reacted just like Chicken Little. The acorn (first sighting of rumor that age rules will change) hit me on the head and I went scurrying about to see if I could find Henny Penny (...
Red Satin Sheets
posted 8 months ago | 2 comments
It all started when the temperature dipped to 7 degrees and the wind chill was well below zero. I walk every day and enjoy it immensely but I did not relish the idea of trudging through 6 inches of snow in that cold.
A sensible solution seemed to...
A sensible solution seemed to...
Know Thyself
posted 9 months ago | 0 comments
“Know Thyself”
It sounds so simple.
Yet, the more I know of myself
The less simple knowing becomes.
For myself is my parents, my brothers, and my generations
Of grandparents, my husband, my daughters, my friends
And all of those who have touched ...
It sounds so simple.
Yet, the more I know of myself
The less simple knowing becomes.
For myself is my parents, my brothers, and my generations
Of grandparents, my husband, my daughters, my friends
And all of those who have touched ...
