One of my favorite things to do at the County Fair each year is wander slowly through the buildings displaying arts and crafts, landscape design and new or improved inventions. I’m always amazed at the creativity and ingenuity of people. Ornate, hand-made clocks, oil and watercolor paintings, photography, embroidery, quilting, rug making, needlepoint so fine …
We’ve had Sarge on medications that are supposed to repel fleas and ticks. Well, one day I was scratching his back and noticed a strange lump. Upon further investigation, I found a swollen, tidily tucked in tick buried deep in his flesh under all that fur. It was pretty big, and clearly full of Sarge’s …
Each one of us has lived through historical events. Some flow on by without making an impact. Others shape us. Some “events” don’t have a specific date – but the time is remembered. The Cold War, for example. Fear seemed to reign. In grade and high school, we had “duck-and-cover” drills to “prepare for” nuclear …
I tend to collect interesting tidbits of information from our newspaper, a magazine, or something in conversation that I can’t wait to look up and confirm. Here are some examples: Baby brain facts: babies can hear at 24 weeks into pregnancy, and from then on are hard wired for relationship. Our babies recognized our voices. …
by guest blogger Barney Cargile Slowly removing the container from his personal preference kit, Buzz Aldrin examined the elements in his hand. Sitting next to him, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong had earlier uttered the historic words, “The Eagle has landed,” as the space module caressed the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Those were …
Summer is a wonderful time for reading. Rick sits in a mesh-bottomed inner tube and floats in the pool, book in hand. I read in the living room, with a CD playing ocean waves or burbling streams or bird song. Rick and I both love to read, and we have different tastes. He likes heavy …
I collect quotes. I have notebooks full of them. Some are from ordinary people, others from famous personages. I never know when I’ll run across a gem, so I carry a note pad in my purse. Not long ago I happened on a small book of quotes by Winston Churchill. Here are a few of …
Rick and I sat in pjs on Sunday, reminiscing about our dads and giving thanks for them. Rick’s father, William Richard Rivers, weathered many storms. Passed from relative to relative, he and his three brothers worked fields while their father, a merchant marine, was out to sea. When the Depression hit, and all his savings …
Rick and I knew when we purchased our home that we were in the flight path for the local airport. It’s a small airport and less than a dozen flights a day, not all of which fly overhead. Aviation is in my husband’s blood. He ran his own aviation business for twenty-five years before retiring. …
Our local newspaper is running articles about states passing “draconian anti-abortion laws” – pushing the panic button that women will have no rights, their bodies “kidnapped”. Seventy high school students cut classes and marched to the town square to raise their signs. PRO F****** CHOICE. NO FORCED BIRTH. TRUST WOMEN. This morning the editorial section …