We had a day of April showers here in Kentucky today except it’s not April. Guess these are May rains. The raindrops are knocking all the petals off the locust tree blooms. The road was white under the trees when I drove home from church a while ago. But when I took a walk earlier this afternoon I could still …
You Don’t Sell a Dream
Yesterday was Derby Day, and here in Kentucky that’s almost like a national holiday. I’ve heard it said that every Kentuckian should attend at least one Derby, but I know a lot of us that haven’t and probably never will except via television. They do some great coverage on t.v. which is fine by me. I can’t imagine being out …
The Joys of Mud
Spring is a great time for mud and since we’re adding on a room that required some digging, we’ve got plenty of mud to go around. My grandkids are loving it. They like sitting up on the dirt piles digging for treasure. Who knows what might be under the very next dirt clod? Gold maybe. Well, not likely. More likely …
A Sunday of Gifts
How long has it been since you gave yourself a gift? I gave myself a gift today – a gift of time. Of course the day already was a gift since we had our “we paid it off” celebration at church today. That gift was for our whole church family. And we had a great old fashioned country church dinner …
Celebrating K Hall
We had a beautiful Wednesday here in Kentucky. Monday it was chilly and breezy, a sort of March day, but they say by Friday we’ll think it’s June and everybody will be putting their convertible tops down and wearing shorts and flip flops. That’s okay with me. A little variety is good, especially if it means changing the weather to …
A Sunny Saturday at the Book Fest
It’s rained buckets today in Kentucky but we had a beautiful spring day yesterday. Couldn’t ask for a nicer day for a belated Easter egg hunt (some of my grandkids got to do that with their other grandmom) or a day to wet that fishing line or to take a walk down the creek to feast your eyes on some …
Raegan Elizabeth Discovers America!
That new grandbaby is here and she’s a petite sweetheart at five pounds ten ounces and seventeen and a half inches. Both Mom and Raegan Elizabeth are doing well and big sisters and brother are proud and happy. Grammy and Pa haven’t gotten to hold her yet. We were there last night soon after the birth but she needed to …
Happy Easter
Hope all of you had a blessed Easter day with time to celebrate with your family and church. Darrell and I did some celebrating this morning with both our sons and their families at church. We filled up two pews. Eight beautiful, healthy and (Grammy thinks) brilliant grandchildren. The ninth one was there too, but she’s still being shy about …
A Dog Named Oscar
I forgot to let you know if I was April fooling you about my new dog. I wasn’t. I do have a new dog named Oscar. He’s a very nice dog. Part lab and who knows what else. He was a stray who found a loving home at a horse barn, but the people who welcomed him there weren’t able …
Books, Writers, Singing and Grandkids
They’re playing for the championship in basketball tonight. I’m not watching yet. I might later, but if my team had made it – and they didn’t even get in the tournament (alas) – I’d be glued to the set. But I’m trying to catch up answering e-mails and such since the weekend was so busy I didn’t have time to …