Rememberances
Childhood Memories
This week’s challenge for a header theme came up as I was finalizing plans to go visit my older sister to scan some photos that she has that I don’t. I thought it would be a great opportunity, I thought it was uncanny timing. But that would have been to easy now wouldn’t it Dear … Continue reading
The First Hint of Deep Summer
Dirt is on vacation this week so we’ve been a bit loungy in the morning. Monday morning when I got my coffee and came back to my wonderful new room (it will be new for a long time Dear Reader), I slid my big window open so I could hear all the sounds of the … Continue reading
Did You Know That Story?
Taps has always been a favorite of mine. I suppose it comes from many years in Bluebirds and Campfire Girls then years as a Girl Scout leader and camp counselor. Even as a little bluebird we sang it at the end of every meeting, and what camp would be complete without taking down the flag … Continue reading
Four Calling Birds
On the fourth day of ChristmasMy True Love gave to me,Four calling birds…The four men who wrote the four gospels calling us to Christ.Before I head out to prune my second tree today, I thought I would share a favorite verse from each of the four gospels.From Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, … Continue reading
St. Lucia, Santa Lucia, Saint Lucy, However You Say It, It Means Great Buns!
Dear reader I pray that you are taking full advantage of this season. That you are breathing in deeply all that this time on the calendar can mean. Advent, waiting and preparing. Waiting and preparing for the feast day of Christmas, the Christmas season that the feast day ushers in, and the preparation of what … Continue reading
Having A Happy…
Thanksgiving Day proper was the best. I spent the day taking care of some two hundred seventy-five gladiola corms, my canna tubers, and my dahlia tubers, they all got separated, cleaned up and packed in sawdust. My begonias weren’t ready yet, still very damp and then I went to my pile of strawberry plants, … Continue reading
The Dash
Couldn’t sleep, so I came out to look up things about Wyoming. When I got too dizzy from the elevation there I went to see if there was anything new to read on my Google Reader. Cliff Morrow, a Nebraska farmer (a real farmer), had a post about tractor repairs. A girl like me can’t … Continue reading
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
I love fall storms. Or storms any time of the year actually. The only bummer is that fall storms hastens leaf fall, and it won’t be very kind to the rest of my chrysanthemums either. But I still love the sound and the wild sky. My chrysanthemum blooms never get as big as they should … Continue reading
Things Just Don’t Feel Right
My computer is home, but it doesn’t feel right and there is a lot of work to do to put things back on that are missing, spent tonight just on the whole e-mail thing. I loaded up my One Note but decided setting up my notebooks needed to be another day. Along with all the … Continue reading
Saying Good Bye
Dirt and I first met Dale Tibbits twenty-three years ago, July, 1985, when we answered an ad for farmland for rent.Twenty-three years is a long time.Many stories, many influential moments. Understandings, tender times, frustrations, misunderstandings, are bound together, so tightly wound around each another that they cannot be separated, one from the other, because it … Continue reading
