Aren’t they beautiful – those nine glasses of grape jelly? All the way from the vine in Oklahoma to my house in Arkansas and transformed into a delicious spread for buttered toast! The nice thing is, I have that much more juice left to make that much more jelly! I guess jelly making is sort […]
Aug 9, 2014
Mystery, Moonlight, and Murder
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In this day of technology, libraries are still wonderful places. A wealth of knowledge is housed within their walls, free and open to the public. Any book on any subject is available and if the library doesn’t have it on the shelves, a helpful librarian will be glad to order it through inter-library loan. In Moonlight […]
Aug 8, 2014
Purple Treasures
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Yesterday’s rain ended and I decided to take that little trip after all. I drove to Oklahoma and picked grapes. They were beautiful, hanging from their vines. Rain glistened on them, birds sang in the tall oaks, and, there were no mosquitoes.Those purple treasures were partially hidden by leaves and, sad to say, a few bushes and […]
Aug 6, 2014
Mid-Summer Meanderings
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Summer – is it at its zenith or is it on its way out? It seems that plants and animals, the very air, have a different feel about them, a sort of sleepiness, sort of lolling in the warmth but with an eye to shorter days and the next season. It’s fun to notice the behavior […]
Aug 4, 2014
Fiery Chariots
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I was able to collect my thoughts yesterday, decide the day was mine, not Nettie Elizabeth Duncan McNeil’s, and go to church. I was glad I did. The Sunday school lesson was about faith. In many parts of the world, Christians are being slaughtered for no other reason than faith – their faith in Jesus. […]
Aug 1, 2014
August Already
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Do you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Yesterday, that was not only a feeling, it was a fact. Mr. Gray, atop the mailbox posts, had his feline eyes directed right at my window. I like to think he was guarding the house against lions and tigers, and all other impossible threats. […]
