How do I like my eggs? How about in a chocolate cake?Can you name a brand of soda that was once a big seller but is no longer sold in stores?This holiday season instead of...

On Saturday, the most anticipated weekend of the year arrived for many in my Missouri family. Firearms Deer Season. Going out into the woods early in the morning, and again...

What a wonderful front page special of Lucille Franklin. What a day. What a week she has had and she deserves it.Also my bestie Suzanne Steeley made the paper. They will...

Birthdays: November 23rd-Baylee Grisham, great-grandson Beckham Baker 6, Hank Hargis 10, Addy Kinder 20, Sandy Tullock 61 and Becky Anderson 68; 24th-Chesnee Hickman 3,...

Growing up in the day and age that our parents did, they saw the United States change tremendously. They were both alive during two world wars, several other smaller wars,...

A smart TV would increase the volume when you start eating chips.The hurricanes on the east coast showed how crucial gas powered cars and trucks are.I can’t prove it but I...

Yea! We finally got some rain. Isn’t it amazing how much greener everything looks when the dust is washed away? It came in time for some of the fall grasses to continue to...

Off work on Friday and worked in yard. Picked Krelee from sitter as Asa, Kelbey, Stran and Jasper Bowles went to Exeter, Missouri, to a corn maze. Cutler came down for...

Birthdays: November 16th-Leon Tolbert, Megan Allison, Kruze Renkoski 12, Claire McGee 15, Kelbey Bowles 34, Tyler Jones 39 and Cassie Darst 43. 17th-Paislee Dardenne 1,...

“A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done.”In 2001, this quote was used in a book by Jean Little, Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of...

Wow!  Things are getting busy.The well house need to be checked for ghouls and other assorted goblins associated with All Hollows Eve.  (It is called Halloween these days)...

As I write this, the weather continues to be warm and windy. The light rain we got last week, greened up the grass somewhat. We are promised more rain soon. We always seem...

It is time to embrace our hertiage and history not deny it.Respect older people. They graduated from high school without google and a cell phone.Life has no remote. Get up...

I don’t think I am alone in my wish that the “changing of the time” would be eliminated from our lives. To turn clocks either back in the fall, or forward in the spring...

If we could only take the time each and every day to count our blessings. Our families have been so very blessed to have Lucille Franklin in our lives for several years....