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March is usually a headed toward Spring month here in Kentucky. Flowers begin to appear. There are days with a generous dose of warm sunshine to soak into your skin after the winter cold. The normal temperature for a Kentucky day in early March is in the 50s. Sometimes we’re treated to much warmer. And sometimes we’re slammed with much …
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I have so much fun With my giveaways too. I used a Random Number generator online to pick the winner of my Roses are Red Giveaway. I wish I could send you all a prize because you make my contests such fun, but alas, I’m not Bill Gates. I do appreciate you throwing your …
Only a few more days to enter my Roses are Red Poem giveaway. I’ve had fun reading your poems and love that so many of you gave verse a try. Last Wednesday I shared a few of the poems that were more than a Roses are red simple verse but I’ve enjoyed them all. It’s fun to just go with …
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” (Hal Borland) “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.” (Bill Nye) I’m wishing I could spot some little spring beauty flowers like those above, but not yet this year. Those little blooms are still sleeping under the snow that has stuck …
I sent out a newsletter this week with a late Valentine giveaway. You know some people are always a day late and a dollar short. But it’s never too late for chocolate and Valentine hugs. Okay, so I don’t have any chocolate to give you. If I did, I’d eat it myself. But I’d think about you while I was …
How cold is it? Plenty cold where I am here in Kentucky. When I peeked at the thermometer this a.m. it showed minus 8. While that might not be so chilly for some of you northern folks, down here in the almost south, it’s cold. But worse, they say it’s not supposed to get over 5 degrees today. And that’s …
Happy Valentine’s Weekend! Here’s a natural valentine I spotted on one of my walks some time last year. I’ve been saving it for this day. A day late, I know, but we can celebrate love any day, can’t we? As far as I know, nobody carved this heart in this tree. It just happened. A gift of nature. But then …
“The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.” ~Henry Drummond I am blessed by the influence of so many people who have believed in me through the years. My mother, first and foremost, always believed I could do whatever I set out to do. That’s not to say she might not have been a …
It was my youngest son’s birthday today. He has a family of his own now to be daddy to and he’s a wonderful daddy. But I’m not sure he ever taught his kids to eat the peanut butter and pancake syrup on biscuits that his dad taught him to eat when he was just a little tyke. He could never …
Are those the magic fairy wands glistening on the trees or only winter icicles that I see? (Anonymous) I took a break from trying to flesh out a new story idea yesterday and went walking. Walking is a good time for thinking. You see everything around you, but you don’t have to really think about how you’re moving your feet …