We had visitors today. A couple dozen sandhill cranes stopped by the field across the road. After alerting everyone in the office, I grabbed my camera and walked out into the cold morning. Sandhill squawks filled the air. I looked up…
Saturday morning was one of those wonderfully zoo-ey days at our house. The Project (our bathroom/laundry room/half bath transformation) was in full swing and the office was abuzz. Our regular company hours are 8:00-5:00 Monday through Friday; but with a home…
About a year and a half ago, Nate, Mary Evelyn, Clara, Ray, and I were heading north on the back road to Cincinnati where we had booths at the Great Homeschooling Convention. Being so organized and always ahead of time (yeah, right!),…
Around 1980 I met a baby girl with a name I had never heard before–Bethany. I thought her name was beautiful. Ray and I had decided to give each of our children a Bible name and a family name. When we had our first baby…
Yesterday I had the pleasure of our younger grandson’s company for the entire morning while his mama and daddy took big sister Clara to see Peter Pan. Of course, I took pictures, including this one of little Wesley peeking through the…
On Sunday afternoon, the parking lot was packed when Ray dropped Mother and me off at the meeting room where we sometimes attend the Little Opry. A man in a VFW hat stood at the door handing out American flags. We…
Five years, one month, and one day ago, our daughters Bethany and Mary Evelyn were in Leipzig, Germany, with their friends Annalisa and Rosemary. Bethany and Mary Evelyn had been to Germany several times to assist Annalisa and Rosemary’s parents and…
Dollar General is the go-to store in our boonies little town (have I said that I love our boonies little town?). When we stopped in the other day, I brought home a little solar-powered snowman (cost me all of $1.50). I started to…
In the early 1990s, while teaching in the first and second grade Sunday School class, I thought about the fact that we never seemed to spend enough time teaching about Creation, so I decided to devote the next six months to that subject. I made…
