And now, mail resumes, banks re-open, people go back to work, and I’m grateful for another wonderful Christmas with my family. In many countries, this is Boxing Day, and I don’t mean it’s a time when we put on gloves and solve all our differences with combat. The day after Christmas is a day when […]
Dec 19, 2025
A Look Back, Way, Way Back
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I found my old diary–my very old diary. It was a 5-year diary and, oh joy! it began in 1953! Can you believe it? I’ve always preferred reading diaries or journals of people who lived through old times because to me those are the truest accounts. This was evidently the journal of a young farm […]
Dec 14, 2025
Crisp and Clear
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This is a beautiful, clear morning. Not a cloud and there’s no wind, but boy! It is cold! The temperature is hovering around thirteen degrees, so the beauty of this quiet morning is deceptive. Amazing, what I can see with most of the leaves gone. Across from me, above my far neighbor’s house, I see […]
Nov 17, 2025
One Fine Fall Morning
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This morning, as I look out of my front room window (I can’t keep from looking out, because my computer is in front of it) I see that autumn is really pretty far advanced. This old year is nearing the finish mark. The trees, having provided food, shade, and safety to little birds and animals, […]
Sep 27, 2025
The Tale of a Chicken
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As I was thumbing through past posts for this blog, I came across what I’d written a few years ago. Now, I’m wondering what happened to the chicken after he left this vicinity. Did he have a good life? Did he meet with an untimely end? I can only hope for the best. I’ve looked […]
Sep 21, 2025
Wash Day
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You’ve come a long way, baby, was a slogan from a tobacco company several years ago. That slogan could apply to how wash day has changed from the way it used to be. We probably don’t even have a “wash day” any more. Any time we have a load of clothes that need to be […]
