[This was written last week while the internet was out.]

One week is time enough for a world of change. Unfortunately this has not been a week of happy changes. A dear lady in our church passed away on July 3rd. We canceled our Independence Day celebration out of respect for her. Arvilla always loved the picnic. The rest of the weekend our church ( Read more... )

It is only a few days before the 4th of July which means that The Great Cleaning has begun.  Our house, yard, and outbuildings always look nice.  But, the week before Independence Day we suddenly manage to find more things that are broken, or need to be nailed down, mulched, cemented, or painted than during the rest of the year combined.  We even ( Read more... )

The update on The House on the Creek. The tenants have gone to Louisiana this summer to clean and move FEMA trailers. This means that while the house is unoccupied I can’t start working on it because that family has not technically moved out. Arg! I’d love to take advantage of the free time I have and work on it this summer. I’ve decided that ( Read more... )

 

• Why is it that I tell myself I need to lose weight and then go and bake a shortcake and eat it with strawberries and ice cream?
• How remarkable lightening bugs are.
• How I need to be reading more non-fiction.
• All the fiction that I want to read. I recently become a Neil Gaiman fan and can’t wait till “The Graveyard Book” comes out.
• Goodreads.com a place ( Read more... )

Here are some quick notes.

I’m in a hurry because I’m flying to St. Louis to visit Efe tomorrow morning. We’re pretty excited about it. We were talking about when we might make our long awaited visit to a jazz club when Efe had an epiphany.  “We could go Friday,” she said. “Or we could go Saturday. Or… we could go BOTH days!” Yay! Live jazz! I’m ( Read more... )