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Do you like my owl? Over on my back to nature part of the farm, we have a cliff. An owl couple decided the rock ledge partway around the cliff is a good place to raise little owls. This is at least the fourth year we’ve seen the owls nesting there. Usually we see the young owlets already hatched, but I’m …
Have you ever been to a book fair or festival or fest? If so, what did you think was the very best thing about the experience? Was it the books? Oh, we do love our books and that’s what is hardest for me at book festivals. I want to buy sackfuls of books when actually I already have sackfuls of books in …
It’s a great thing to be two and have a cake that matches your dress and to blow out candles and hear everybody cheer. That has to be a great thing! And I get to help another granddaughter celebrate a birthday this weekend. I’m one blessed grandmother. ~~ It was a busy Saturday with birthday parties and the Redbud Festival. …
I took some of the grandkids to the creek on Friday. It’s April and won’t be summer for quite a few more weeks, but the day was warm. In the seventies. The creek is spring fed from underground so the water stays chilly, but the plan was to keep on stepping stones, see the wildflowers, and maybe spot a crawdad …
Are you into Facebook? I heard on the radio the other day that sixty-one percent of Americans have a Facebook account. That is pretty amazing. We can’t even get sixty-one percent of Americans to go to the polls and vote on Election Day. I can hear somebody out there saying we should have elections as easy to vote in as …
I met an editing deadline yesterday. Actually I was almost two weeks early, but that other deadline for my Shaker 5 book is looming out there so I wanted to get the edits done as fast as possible. That way I can get going again on the Shaker book. I reread what I’ve already written or most of it today. …
I’ve been a University of Kentucky basketball fan almost as long as I’ve been a writer. When I was about twelve, I got one of those little transistor radios. We thought they were quite the trick. You didn’t have to plug them in. You just had to have batteries. Then I could hold it up to my ear and turn …
Everybody ought to try something new and challenging occasionally. Especially writers. While it’s not likely I’d ever give skydiving a try unless somebody peeled my fingers off the airplane door and shoved me out, I am willing to try something new now and again. So Friday was one of those now and again days. This lovely bunch of ladies and …
What is it about a creek like this that makes you want to keep on following it? To see what’s around the next corner. To see where the water goes? ~~ This is my creek. At least as much as any creek can belong to anybody. I don’t say it’s mine just because it’s on my land. I say it’s …
It’s officially spring by the calendar now. And on top of that we’re having this super moon. I went out to look for it a while ago and it must be cloudy. I did see it last night, but not as it was coming up the way I wanted to. I am seeing everybody’s pictures – those people who went …