Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. ~Henri Matisse I hope you have enjoyed playing my Caption Game. I’ve enjoyed your many creative captions. Many of them made me smile. And not a one of you had Robin saying “Holy Toledo” or any of the other holy …
“You start pretending to have fun; you might even have a little by accident.” – Alfred Pennyworth, Batman’s butler and friend The Caption Game continues. This picture and one more and I’m saving the best picture for last. Well, I think it’s the best anyway. In keeping with my play theme and with Halloween coming up, here’s a photo of …
The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. ~Ursula K. Le Guin Thanks to all of you who suggested such great captions for Wednesday’s picture. You came up with some good ones. Of course. some suggested captions about losing one’s marbles and others about finding those …
Our brains are built to benefit from play no matter what our age. ~Theresa A. Kestly It’s my birthday month so it’s time to have some fun and to give away some books. Of course, you can check out Last Sunday’s post, Mining Parenting Memories, and leave a comment on that post to be entered in a drawing for a …
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 …