Christmas in January
Monday, January 24th, 2011
I am shocked at how quickly the time goes. Although it seemed like it was a long ways off, it has now come and gone. Christmas, that is. And Christmas with my family, which we celebrated January 16 at our little white country church. As I told members of my family, we have now gotten […]
Garden Talk
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The other day, I had to drive to the next town over to cover a court hearing for the newspaper. It had started to snow before I left. It was not a hard, heavy snow, but it was a miserable snow. The wind was blowing hard from the west so that the north/south portions of […]
Happy New Year!
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Talk about up and down weather. The temperature warmed up in the 30s this past week, and then it rained on Thursday and Friday. By Saturday morning, New Year’s Day, the bottom had dropped out of the temperature and we had below-zero windchills with a high of about five degrees. It’s funny how when it […]
Kajun
Sunday, December 26th, 2010
As I always do, Saturday night — Christmas Night — I went to check on my horses before I went to bed. I always give them a little extra grain and some hay and make sure they are all right. I went down to Isabelle’s pasture and gave her some grain, then I walked up […]
More Snow
Monday, December 20th, 2010
It’s snowing again, and since I have not yet written about the last snowstorm, I figured I’d better get busy. The last two weeks have been hectic with meetings for the newspaper, extra village board meetings for the newspaper (the village’s clerk-treasurer passed away and the village board did not yet have a budget, tax […]
Escape Artist
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. Friday morning, as I was rushing around trying to get ready to get out of the house, I was in the kitchen making a peanut and jelly sandwich for myself. I was set up to be a vendor at a craft fair at a historic […]
Slipping and Sliding
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
I knew it wasn’t going to be good when I went out to check on the horses Saturday evening before going to sleep. Already there was freezing rain and a fine coating of ice on the fence around Isabelle’s pasture. Sure enough, when I got up Sunday morning at 6 a.m. to feed the kittens, […]
Still Six
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
I am happy to report that the six kittens all seem to be doing well and that they are growing. I, of course, am looking forward to them starting to eat some on their own, and using the litter box will be a big deal, too. They will be five weeks old on Wednesday. One […]
