Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley We have Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and we even have a Children’s Day. But this Sunday is Grandparents’ Day. You don’t hear much about that because most of us celebrate those grandmoms and granddads on Mother’s and Father’s …
The weather here in Kentucky was perfect for haying over Labor Day weekend and until now. Farmers are happy to have the opportunity to get hay cut and baled in good shape without worrying about storm clouds gathering on the horizon. My husband has retired from farming and has leased the farm to a young farmer to pasture some cows …
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. ~Colossians 3:23 (NIV) I love this picture. It proves that at one time my desk looked neat and organized. My desk now is a paper magnet. Papers and envelopes and books and notebooks. And too much of all of that. Cleaning off …
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.” – Milan Kundera (Author, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) I keep saying that someday I’m going to make a …
(I promised to share this story sometime and it seemed the right time now. It was first published in The Dog Next Door: And Other Stories of the Dogs We Love by Callie Smith Grant.) I was nine when I got the dog hunger. I wanted a dog with every inch of my fiber. So much that I would have traded …
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.” ~Dean Koontz Did you know it was National Dog Day? Maybe a better question is did you even know there was a National Dog Day? The only reason I do is because of Facebook. We dog lovers are always ready for a chance to post …
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. ~Madeleine L’Engle Have you read books by Madeleine L’Engle? Her most famous novel is A Wrinkle in Time. Walt Disney released a movie based on her story not long ago. I haven’t seen the movie. The …
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for the vines to grow up onto. We use an overhead wire strung between wooden posts and then twine strings attached to the wire …
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein A couple of weeks ago I went with my son’s family on a trip and on one of the days, we visited an aquarium. I’ve been to aquariums several times …
I don’t think I ever finished a book by reading with a flashlight under a cover, but I might have if I’d had a flashlight with batteries that lasted. When I was a kid, flashlights were more luxury than something on every shelf. Most of the time the one we did have seemed to always be lacking batteries and if …