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Sometimes the best thing about going home is the food you might find on the dinner table. If that’s going home to a hometown festival, then it can be the special food they are featuring. My little town has a Burgoo Festival. Not this year due to the Covid19 pandemic, but we can hope next year. Here in Kentucky most …
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” I received so many great shout outs about their hometowns from readers in response to my recent newsletter. So I’m sharing a few more. As anybody knows who has ever lived in a small town …
My hometown – where I was born, where I was raised, where I keep all my yesterdays. ~Unknown Author It’s been a busy birthday month for me. I had this fun Caption Game going here on my blog posts, and thank you all so much for playing and making it so much fun. You did come up with some great …
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 …