Joy of Country Living

Want to give you a heads-up on a new website I just heard about – spokeo.com. It is touted as being ‘Not Your Grandma’s Phone Book – and I would have to agree. Without knowing all the details of how it works – it appears that they harvest information from the web including information from social sites [...]

For those watching the metals market – both gold and silver prices are soaring.  Gold’s hovering right at or above the $1,300.00 per ounce mark. And while all that glitters is not gold – some is – soooo – don’t forget if you’re planning on selling any of your gold jewelry for CA$H – calculate [...]

Things have really been busy around the hay field. Seems we’ve been doing a lot of running – went shopping in Bryan (bought some fabric to make slip covers for the lawn chairs) and then to Houston to visit my son and his lovely bride. Getting away is always fun but seems chores always double [...]

It was yucky last week – raining and cold. However, David and I took advantage of a break on Wednesday to do some shopping in Palestine – stocked up on a few groceries, mailed a package and ate at our favorite Mexican restaurant – El Toro. Of course, what’s a trip to town without a stop [...]

Delivering a virus by email has been around for a while but with Christmas coming up and lots of packages being ordered online and shipped, thought it would bear posting just in case you haven’t heard about it. The newest virus circulating is based on your receiving an email regarding either UPS or FedEx Delivery [...]