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Caught on Camera
Last week, I shared a photo of a longhorn and a deer candidly posing for the trail cam. Here’s another one from my nephew Jackson. Here kitty, kitty. This is why I always tell the boys to carry a...
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All In A Day’s Walk
Today Aunt Jeanette writes: 95 degrees…wind blowing from the south at 20 miles per hour with gusts up to 25. Should I or shouldn’t I? I should…and I did! I started on my walk thinking to myself, “If it...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
By Shel Silverstein When I was young, I loved to go to “work” with my dad. Mind you, while he was really working, I was sitting in the old hay loft, writing and reading poetry. One of my all-time...
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Kings and Queens of the Butterflies
Today Aunt Jeanette writes: “This looks like a 5-star place to spend the night.” “It is quiet, our sleep won’t be disrupted, and we can get a good night’s rest.” “There will be a continental breakfast...
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The Hibbity-Jibbities
My bedroom when I was a child had two windows and in the fall (despite my horrible allergies to weeds, grass, pollen, mold, dust, you name it) I would keep my windows open as I fell asleep. I’d lie...
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Sun Going Down On An …
Today Aunt Jeanette writes: No, this isn’t an L.A. freeway! Sorry, Brooks and Dunn, I will take the sun going down behind our farm any day. Our neighbor/friend took this picture from across the section...
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Old Things Connect the New Things
Over and over I have said life is a funny set of odd circumstances. People are brought together by unforeseen forces, odd coincidences tie us together, and those connections are oftentimes closer than...
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Mud Pie
Today Aunt Jeanette writes: When I was a little girl, making mud pies was great fun! They were flavor-enhanced with gravel, twigs and leaves. I baked them in the sweltering sun on an old, discarded...
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MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY
Today, Aunt Jeanette writes: How does your garden grow? With bleeding hearts, hostas, hyacinths, daffodils, clematis, moonflowers, roses, coral bells, and … BATS. What? This little baby was hanging by...
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So God ‘Harvested’ a Farmer
With the death of my grandfather on November 1, God called another farmer, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend home. Robert Glenn Sandfort was 94 wonderful years...
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