As you know, I’m a weather watcher. I like the changing outdoor scene. If the meteorologist suggests snow is on the way, I eagerly watch for that first flake. I’m one of those people who makes sure there’s enough bread and milk if a storm is forecast, so I head for the store. (By the […]
Jan 15, 2022
Snow
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It’s amazing what snow will do for the drabness of winter. Snow covers the ground and rooftops and it’s still snowing. It’s a wonderland for children who run out, lifting their faces to the sky, catching the flakes on their tongues. Do the birds and squirrels enjoy the snow? I doubt it. Four squirrels are […]
Jan 6, 2022
As Onward We Go
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The temperature is shivering around twenty-four degrees and guess what? That’s the high! The low will be somewhere around fourteen tonight. There’s also the possibility of snow. That’s the way it is here in NWArkansas. The weather is an interesting, iffy thing. Never count on it staying one way or the other. It must be […]
Jan 1, 2022
A Sweet Close to an Old Year
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I can think of no better way to end an old year or begin a new year than with my family. My creative daughter-in-law had gingerbread house kits on the table. She also had a yummy spread of finger foods on the counter. We ate and then put together some of the sweetest little houses […]
Dec 22, 2021
The Memory of a Snowy Afternoon
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It’s nearly Christmas and no snow! Isn’t Christmas supposed to be white with snowflakes? Where does one go to find the coziness of being snowed in with friends and plenty of good, hot coffee? Why, to a cozy mystery, of course–namely, the Ned McNeil Moonlight series. Moonlight Can Be Murder is, believe it or not, […]
Dec 12, 2021
December Snow
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Ned wanted nothing more than to spend Christmas with her Uncle Javin Granger, her last living relative. It had been forty years since she and her family left her hometown of Ednalee, Oklahoma; now, she was back, hiding from a threat in Atlanta and needing the peace and quiet of the old Victorian house her […]
