It’s fall, I have two oak trees and usually the ground under those trees has just about as many acorns as grass but this year? Nope. No acorns and that has me worried. Why no acorns? The only answer I can figure out is it must have been the terrible hail storm we had last […]
Nov 10, 2025
Falling Leaves
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Leaves are falling like rain this morning, coming straight down with very little wind. Last night left no doubt that summer has flown for yet another season. The temperature dropped way below freezing, into the low twenties and that’s cold! Matt brought in Agnes the Asparagus Fern last night as she can’t take the cold […]
Nov 9, 2025
When the Blues Come Calling
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I imagine that all of us, at times, are subject to bouts of the blues. The reasons are as varied as people but for whatever reason, having the blues is no fun at all. When that dreary mood comes calling, one remedy I have is to write. Sometimes brief flights of fancy will be enough […]
Nov 6, 2025
Fallen Dignity
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A moment when my dignity took a fall happened a few years back. It all started like this: my family and I went out to eat at a popular restaurant after church. Other people had the same idea so we had to put our name on a waiting list for a table. Along one side […]
Nov 3, 2025
The Older I Get
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The older I get, ..the more I value family and friends and life and the less concerned I am about surface stuff, …the more I appreciate old values, old friends, old remedies to ills, physical and emotional, and spiritual. …the more I want to hug my loved ones …the more I see humor in inconsequential […]
