Saturday was our annual Spring (a little late….) get-together of the Skunk Hollow Girls – all cousins, all friends.  We started the day by meeting at Historic Hanna’s Town, where I was able to give the girls a ‘deluxe’ version…

We had a very lovely time yesterday celebrating the pending arrival of my niece Sarah’s baby in September.  It was all things PINK and elegant as we enjoyed sharing our love, time, and the showering of gifts on the Owens…

This weekend was Court Days at Historic Hanna’s Town.  Westmoreland County Historical Society – with a huge array of volunteers – present life as it was in the late 1700’s, right down the road.  And I loved it!  To give…

I have mixed feelings about the birthday that I just ‘celebrated’.  It’s wonderful to know I am loved and appreciated, but my heart was a little heavy with so much concern over my parents.  Although they are doing very well,…

Since my last post, we got word that my step-father fell in the kitchen and broke his shoulder (turns out he bruised his hip as well).  It was a scary, rough couple of days, shuffling schedules and making care-giving phone…

I’m sure you are familiar with Charlie Brown’s kite-eating tree.  Well, we have a hammer-eating tree!  It kind of started when Kelly’s boys (Peyton, Logan, Chase) were tossing football with Kelly’s friend Jamie’s daughters (Josie and Julia).  The group came…

We had such a beautiful weekend to head up I-79 to visit our parents.  The sun was shining, the sky was pure blue, and the clouds were white and fluffy.  We even made the whole trip up in daylight!  We…

When my sister talked to our mom last weekend, Mom was nostalgically recalling the age-old tradition of putting flowers on the graves every Memorial Day.  Mom wasn’t certain that anyone would visit her parents’ graves and plant flowers.  So of…

Early this morning Kathy and I headed down Route 119 to Friendship Hill, the home of Albert Gallatin.  This man has many incredible accomplishments to his credit, and I for one am not sure why he isn’t more widely celebrated. …

Well, dog and baby birds!  The eggs have hatched, and it took me until they hatched to realize that Daddy bird is very involved in this event.  I was amazed when I went out on the deck the other morning…