March 10, 1966 Jocie Brooke reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Well, actually not reporting. I caught a cold from Cassady at church. Now I can’t do anything but sneeze and keep tissues close by. I didn’t even go to school yesterday. Even Aunt Love admitted that I must be sick. I am going to school tomorrow even in my nose does …
March Snow? 12 Things that might be Good
March is usually a headed toward Spring month here in Kentucky. Flowers begin to appear. There are days with a generous dose of warm sunshine to soak into your skin after the winter cold. The normal temperature for a Kentucky day in early March is in the 50s. Sometimes we’re treated to much warmer. And sometimes we’re slammed with much …
We Have a Winner of the Roses are Red Contest
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I have so much fun With my giveaways too. I used a Random Number generator online to pick the winner of my Roses are Red Giveaway. I wish I could send you all a prize because you make my contests such fun, but alas, I’m not Bill Gates. I do appreciate you throwing your …
Did You Ever Buy a Box of Baby Chicks?
March 1, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I’m out in Holly County today reporting from Miss Sally’s farm. To be exact, and Dad says a good reporter should be exact, I’m reporting from Miss Sally’s chicken house. Baby chicks are cheeping all around me. Miss Sally just got one hundred baby chickens in a box at the …
Two Days Left to Enter the Roses are Red Giveaway
Only a few more days to enter my Roses are Red Poem giveaway. I’ve had fun reading your poems and love that so many of you gave verse a try. Last Wednesday I shared a few of the poems that were more than a Roses are red simple verse but I’ve enjoyed them all. It’s fun to just go with …
Happiness is a Poem and a Flower
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” (Hal Borland) “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.” (Bill Nye) I’m wishing I could spot some little spring beauty flowers like those above, but not yet this year. Those little blooms are still sleeping under the snow that has stuck …
Floating on Clouds
February 23, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill. Not much happening around here. The snow melted. We went back to school. I guess I’m glad. Nobody wants to go to school all summer. Better to just get it over with in the winter. And school’s not all that bad. One of those necessary things and I like learning stuff. …
Roses are Red Giveaway
I sent out a newsletter this week with a late Valentine giveaway. You know some people are always a day late and a dollar short. But it’s never too late for chocolate and Valentine hugs. Okay, so I don’t have any chocolate to give you. If I did, I’d eat it myself. But I’d think about you while I was …
How Cold Is It? Record Breaking Times and Memories
How cold is it? Plenty cold where I am here in Kentucky. When I peeked at the thermometer this a.m. it showed minus 8. While that might not be so chilly for some of you northern folks, down here in the almost south, it’s cold. But worse, they say it’s not supposed to get over 5 degrees today. And that’s …
Valentines and Cardinals
February 14, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky on Valentine’s Day. Not that Valentine’s Day means much to me because I don’t have a boyfriend. Thank goodness. Boys are nothing but trouble. My girlfriends are always liking this or that boy and then something happens and there’s tears and gripes. But you have to be careful not to …