This week­end was our annual “birth­day bash on the farm” for my old­est daugh­ter. It has always been more of a hal­loween type party than birth­day, but her birth­day falling so close to the end of Octo­ber, and so close to Hal­loween, made the evo­lu­tion nat­ural. As usual it was a whole lot of fun […]

Okay…I’m seri­ously ticked. Some­one broke into our house while we were on vaca­tion. Noth­ing was taken as far as we can tell which is proably the rea­son I wasn’t look­ing for jim­mied win­dows. Imag­ine my sur­prise when I went to the back of the house last week to put up a lad­der to clean gutters […]

Karah. Her name isn’t actu­ally spelled that way. We spelled it K-a-r-a, but too many peo­ple were pro­nounc­ing it wrong so she took it upon her­self to add the “h” so it rhymed with Sarah. And I guess that begins to tell the story of Karah.Karah. When I was in nurs­ing school and unmar­ried, I […]

I just can’t let this go by with­out a com­ment. “The Bach­e­lor Rome” has started. Now I will admit that I use to watch this pro­gram but decided a few years ago it was get­ting old. I was sit­ting doing some paper work for my hus­band the other night, and had too much stuff piled […]