Today is a muggy, soggy day and the North Fork of the Holston looks like coffee. But not plain coffee…no no no! This coffee is all fancy with color. As Mike and I were driving on the golf cart (it’s the way we roll…it used to be a Porsche…what the heck happened???), […]
With so much discord in the world…,I am thankful for my choir…standing tall…faces to the wind. There’s a dark & a troubled side of lifeThere’s a bright and sunny side, tooTho’ we meet with the darkness and strifeThe sunny side we also may view Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep […]
It has been beautiful in our river valley for the past few days. Low humidity…sunshine. Everything is growing. If you’ve followed my blog, you’ve heard me mention… “Once you’ve got that Poor Valley mud on your boots, you can’t wipe it off.” You’ll always want to come back. Please travel around our area […]
So….we came home from the vet today without Gracie…my 15-year old Golden Retriever. She could no longer walk more than a few feet without falling. I have been talking about Gracie on this blog and how I felt her time with me was limited, so this was something I was prepared for. Not. […]
I learned today that Southwest Virginia, particularly the Carter Family Fold, is being featured in this month’s Southern Living Magazine. I’ll be sure to pick up a copy of that! However, we had our own Southern Living Sunday right here in Mendota today at the Timmons’ Family Farm’s Third Annual Pig Pickin’. It started as […]
For years, I’ve read about No Spend January. After ending up in both November and December with less money than anticipated at the end of the month, I realized that there’s a “leak” or a “hole” in my wallet! I decided to embark on a No Spend January. I have an ambitious savings […]
When you are retired and have a little time or maybe a lot of time, it’s so easy just to drift. Days can go by and nothing gets done. I’m trying to live more purposefully — setting goals and doing them. My goals are pretty achievable but even so, they take effort. One was […]
One of the projects I’m working on that I haven’t yet mentioned on the blog is my reorganizing and changing up the look of our home office. It’s a disaster. I’ll talk about that in another post. In the process, I started going through old pictures, and I came across this picture of a barn […]