Wow..it has been a really long time since I blogged! A lot has hap­pened that I will get to, hope­fully, soon. In the meantime…a note.…. Tomor­row my step son is deployed to Afghanistan. He has a few months state­side and then he goes over­seas. We will not see him for a year or more. I […]

This was taken from USA Week­end.…. Syn­chro­nous fire­flies, Ten­nessee. A nat­ural spec­ta­cle unlike any other in the West­ern Hemi­sphere takes place every June in a Great Smoky Moun­tains meadow, where throngs of fire­flies gather for two to three weeks of breath­tak­ingly beau­ti­ful syn­chro­nized mat­ing dis­plays. The show begins ever night between 9 and 10, when […]

Well.  Thought would be back on here long before this. Appar­ently, at times, things need to moved from one site to another, this blog post being one. My son, the com­puter genius who does all this stuff, was VERY busy and, although I can hardly believe it, my blog was low, low, low on his […]

I have a CD in my car that I love. It has become the sound­track of my life. Quite some  time ago I was telling my old­est daugh­ter that when­ever these songs play, my mind instantly goes to my life, replay­ing scenes from my child­hood, Christmas’s, school, friends, grow­ing up… The songs are instru­men­tals, the […]

Sev­eral weeks ago I sent an email to all my kids and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers ask­ing for their input on what color to paint my stairs. The house is very old, the stairs very nar­row, and although hav­ing them stripped and stained was an option, I was pretty sure I was going to paint them, […]

I think that every­one who is spout­ing the words “social­ized med­i­cine” needs to get it right. Social­ized med­i­cine is when the gov­ern­ment has com­plete con­trol over every aspect of your health care. They employee the doc­tors,  run the hos­pi­tals etc.  With the new health care reform plan you still get to pick your doc­tors, pick […]

I hope I am not the only per­son who, lately, writes every­thing in text mode. Notes to myself or hus­band, blogs, face­book, basi­cally any­thing that I need to write. Funny thing is, even though I cringe when I reread stuff that can’t be changed and real­ize my mis­take, I also real­ize that most peo­ple reading […]

I really don’t know if houses in town need sump pumps. Here on the farm we do. It is basi­cally an open well inside our home where water that col­lects around the out­side walls of the house can drain thus keep­ing water from com­ing thru your walls and the foun­da­tion col­laps­ing. When it reaches a […]

Mud, fog, snow, slop, mud, drifts, pud­dles, fog, mud, stand­ing water, snow, mud.… This is what the kids have to look for­ward to when they visit this week­end. I have extra laun­dry deter­gent on hand. Since they are com­ing regard­less of the con­di­tions, can I take this as proof pos­i­tive they are com­ing to see US […]

Here is my life the last few days.… The National Weather Ser­vice Des Moines, IA 6:31 pm CST, Tue., Mar. 9, 2010 … DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT… A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. * SHORT TERM TRENDS… CONDITIONS ARE BEGINNING TO IMPROVE IN FAR SOUTHERN IOWA […]