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“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” ~John Harrigan We built a fence this morning. Well, we put it together anyway. Some years ago after we built a room over our old cistern and added a deck to the house, my husband, sweet man that his is, decided to make me a flowerbed running along part of …
Another storm slammed us this afternoon. The second Sunday afternoon in a row that we’ve had wild storms. Last week we didn’t lose power, but this week we have. Our whole road and area along with plenty of others across the county are without power. The crews are out there working, but other storms keep rolling through. It’s not dark …
So what is a calliope and how in the world do you pronounce that? A calliope is a steam organ or steam piano that was named after the Greek Muse Calliope who presided over poetry, song, and the arts and sciences. I had to practice how to say it and after looking up the pronunciation a dozen or so times …
He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. -Psalm 107:29 (NKJ) Do you like thunderstorms? When I was a kid, my family lived in an old farmhouse. We couldn’t even imagine having an air conditioner. We depended on the air conditioning of summer breezes through our windows. We didn’t have water piped to our house. We depended on …
Summer officially started on the calendar yesterday, June 21st. That was the summer solstice when here in this side of the world, we had the longest daylight day of the year. In Kentucky we had almost 15 hours of daylight. In terms of daylight, this day is 5 hours, 20 minutes longer than the December solstice. While the days will …
Happy Father’s Day to all of you. I hope you were able to talk to your father, maybe give him a hug today. And if your father, like mine, has gone on, that you have many good memories to make your heart smile. My dad was a farmer. This picture is one I took of him going out to feed …
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Friday I had the fun of doing a zoom interview for Relatable Voice Podcast. Lucia. the podcast hostess, did her homework before we talked by sending me a whole list of questions to help her get to know me before the podcast interview. However the Q&A was just for her information. So, I thought maybe some of you would enjoy …
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who made this Mystery Photo Game so much fun. You all have the best imaginations. No wonder you love to read and turn those story words into movies in your heads. I admit …
There is always a pleasure in unraveling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. – Elizabeth Gaskell I’ve had a great time playing the mystery photo game with you all this time around. It feels like we just got started instead of being already to our last mystery photo. I have struggled over what to …