How weird post­ing this time of day…I have a list to cross off and doing this is on it, and it is crunch time before leav­ing on vaca­tion. We are quite lit­er­ally off to the races…Nascar…our 7th year and it is a hoot. I always think I will get tired of it but I am […]

I have just fin­ished wathch­ing a biog­ra­phy spe­cial called “The Anatomy of 9–11″ I didn’t want to watch it, but I did. I didn’t want to be reminded, but I was. I didn’t want to feel that fear again, but I have. I still to this day can­not believe it hap­pened. Watch­ing the tow­ers collapse […]

My drive to the cities on Sat­ur­day was so enjoy­able. Not only was I off to visit with my kids for daugh­ter Chelsea’s birth­day, but the farm­ers were out every­where begin­ning the spring plant­ing. I love this time of year. Field after field of work being done. The neatly carved rows of newly planted seeds. […]

I was lay­ing in bed last night think­ing about this post and won­der­ing if I could get through it with­out short­ing out my key­board with tears. You see, writ­ing about my kids, well, that’s a part of my soul. I am so look­ing for­ward to telling you about each of them as their birthd­days come […]

Tonight’s post is early and short because munchkin Claire is here, and although she and grandpa are cur­rently nap­ping, I expect she will wake soon and be up late so decided to post while they snooze. I was going to take a pic­ture of them snug­gling in the chair but if I took a picture […]

This is going to be an odd post as it will proably touch on a lot of things and fin­ish noth­ing. So many thoughts have flit­ted through my head the last few days. It being Easter we couldn’t help but be reminded that last Easter, DJ, who had trav­eled with his dad and I to […]

I have often won­dered why this day is called “Good Fri­day”. I per­son­ally think that scourg­ing, crowns of thorns, being spit at and trudg­ing up a hill car­ry­ing a mighty heavy cross, know­ing I am to not only die but be cru­ci­fied doing so, is not a “good” day. But there you have it. I […]

Since I have been knee deep in horse manure for the last week or so, horses are on my mind, and on my clothes, and on my boots. For all you youn­guns who always think you want a horse, think again. As lovely as they are to look at, peace­fully graz­ing in the pas­ture, their […]

I was think­ing today that I wish I had a sis­ter. I have two broth­ers that I will tell you about some­time, but I really miss not hav­ing a sis­ter. I have a few women friends who are pre­cious to me, yet I think there is some­thing spe­cial about a sis­ter. All my women friends […]

I per­son­ally don’t usu­ally like to write about gross things and so I don’t. Obvi­ously the title of this post would than lend itself to some con­fu­sion. But, today I was out and about (remem­ber, I don’t work)and hap­pened to notice that it must have been a really bad day for squir­rels, espe­cially in the […]