Joy of Country Living

At 50 degrees it feels like Fall this morning . . . nice and cool with clear blue skies. The far hay field has turned green (again) and the grass in the near field (which needs mowing) is trying to push through the dried up grass but having quite a struggle. I’ve noticed some of [...]

Good Bye’s and Hello’s Hard to believe this year is almost gone. It’s been a year filled with everything I could imagine and a few things I couldn’t imagine. Our family lost three wonderful people over the course of the year . . . my Uncle Arnold, Uncle Jerry and Aunt Rose. Christmas won’t be [...]

….. Things have been extraordinarily busy around here. Spent Saturday working in the yard and garden – perfect weather. I’ve got all my vegetable plants set out and David had some old coffee cans stashed in the red barn so we cut the bottoms out and pressed them into the dirt around the plants mole [...]

Having a chance to share a holiday with Aunt Rose – she’s a spry 101 – is something everyone in the family enjoys – and this Easter weekend was no exception. After an iffy Friday in the weather department – Saturday turned off beautiful. We went to my cousin’s home in Crockett (Joe and Nancy [...]

While rummaging in the fridge looking for lost left-overs I found an apple. Being that apples seem to have a pretty good ‘shelf’ life – it looked OK – but I wasn’t sure if it was something I wanted to eat raw. But – on the other hand – not much you can do with [...]