Thunder booms across the dark sky and rain spatters on the deck. Fall rain! Cooler weather on the way! What could be better? My dog is stretched out on the carpet beside me, thankful for shelter and food. So, for that matter, am I. (Not stretched out on the carpet, but thankful.) Some time I […]
Sep 2, 2014
With Mop in Hand
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Yesterday, Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer, was wet and cool to start with. Later, it got kind of steamy when the sun came out. September 1, was a memorable day in history. On that day in 1939, Germany invaded Poland and World War II began. On the first day of September in 1864, […]
Aug 27, 2014
A Rainbow in the Mist
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Saturday, I made my first trip to Natural Falls across the state line in Oklahoma. It is a wonderful, scenic area that abounds in the kind of beauty only God could create. As Richard, Linda and I drove into the park,we saw no clue that just beyond a grove of trees lay another facet of nature. On the surface, […]
Aug 26, 2014
Dragonfly Days
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I’ve been noticing a dragonfly in my front yard as I water plants. To me, that’s a sign of summer ending. In Minnesota, where Tracy and Carlene, my brother and sister-in-law, live, dragonflies come out much earlier in the spring. Years ago, when my husband, son and I lived at Manos Meadows, I would look out […]
Aug 25, 2014
Echoes, Images, Rambling Reflections
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A dictionary definition of reflection is “a thought or writing about something, particularly in the past, or what one sees when looking into a body of water.” I’d like to add that reflections can be what others see in our eyes or hear in our voices, or see in our actions. My granddaughter is, in many ways, […]
Aug 23, 2014
Coffee Nerves
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Yesterday, I drank too much caffeine, and I’ve learned my lesson! Let me start from the beginning. You see, it happened this way: I usually mix my coffee, with l/3 decafe and 2/3 caffeinated.But I’ve noticed that lately I don’t snap to attention as quickly as I would like when I awake each morning, and I figured additional caffeine would […]
