I hit the ground running this morning, catching up on what I didn’t get done all week. I had a lot on my plate. Today I cleaned the whole house, did laundry, cut the grass, pulled weeds, sprayed Round-up (cautiously)…

Very early this morning I heard the machinery working on the roads. A jarring way to wake up! The one machine was scraping the asphalt off the roads and spitting it into the huge dump truck. That, of course, left…

Today was the last school tour of the 2021-2022 season. It was a home-school group of about 30 kids and 15 adults, and it was so fun to have them. I enjoyed the interchange between the parents, recognizing certain comments…

Tomorrow is the last school tour for the season. Today we had about 45 students in four different groups. They seemed to have a really good time, and most enjoyed the tin punch project – something they could take home…

I started the day very early going over to help Kathy finish setting up her yard sale. It was a slow start but they had a nice amount of people come through. The nice thing was that Jen’s rescue –…

We had fun with the kids in Sunday School this morning. They made paper tents, as the lesson was about Paul being a tentmaker to fund his missionary trips. You can just tell when they are soaking it up like…

Normal Saturday morning chores – but I did some laundry and other things after breakfast. Today I had scheduled a trip to L&L Fleatique for myself, and then stopped at Miller’s Crossing in Irwin. At L&L I saw a few…

It was raining very hard when I got up this morning, and stayed cloudy and wet until after 10am. After breakfast I made a big bowl of macaroni salad, some to keep and some to share with Nate and Jen.…

Today was representative of days gone by, when I was busy from morning until night, going in several directions. I FOR SURE couldn’t (and wouldn’t!) keep that pace any more, but I’m glad to help when I can. I took…

Well, seven months from today is Christmas Day. Bud would be so proud that I remembered that! I’m not nearly ready. I do have a lot of light strings in the house right now, but they are red/white/blue, not Christmas!…