December brings Merry Christmas. Happy birthday to my favorite son-in-law Asa Bowles, great nephew Blaine Willard, niece Lauren Jones, great-niece Kinsley Vandegrift. Happy...

It’s less than three weeks until Christmas. Time sure does fly by, and the more trips I make around the sun, the faster it seems to spin. With a cat added to our household,...

Birthdays: December 13th-Penny Freeze, Jean Preston, Billy Thomas, Dalton Jones 30, Matt Darst 43 and sister-in-law Robbie Hollis 73; 14th-Jayd Forst 26, Mary Westfall 32...

Remember the days of having to write 100 times, “I will not talk in class. I will not talk in class. I will not talk in class.”I have to admit that I had to write a few...

Where’s My BritchesA  mishap? Sounds phony? Doesn’t it? Yet a single mishap can be true. How do I know this? I fell from bed last night into a grand mishap. My poor...

December can be the busiest month of year with school programs, church programs, ball games, parades, taxes to pay, filing for local offices plus Christmas...

This time of year is thankfully, blessed and also, sad and lonely as we have one missing at the table of our life.Got our bathroom up and running again. Kim got my new...

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. It is a blessing to be part of a community that provides fellowship and food for others who need a place to gather.Recently I have...

Birthdays: December 6th-Rick Anderson, Gabby Nicole 12, Monte Gladden 64 and Myra McCorkill 72; 7th-Debby Thompson, Jimmy Shirk, Lucy Poirot 13, Haley Shorter 21, Ema...

Our one room schoolhouse teacher mother loved hearing a good speaker. She would take notes on what she found enlightening, interesting, or useful on anything available from...

Thanksgiving is upon us. The family gatherings, the food, the football games, the traveling to and from places. It’s a lot of fun once it’s put together, but so much goes...

“Git-er done!” This should be a national saying that represents the spirit of our nation.  There is another old saying that comes out of our colonial north East which is...

In the 1970s GPS was a fence post on the far side of the field.My get up and go looked around and said no thanks and sat right back down.Three area Christmas parades are...

Friday afternoon my new bathroom vanity was set by my Woodsman. It is so nice. So proud of it. Now to get my new top on it. I went to the gym Friday night as they were...

Birthdays: November 29th-Brad Preston, Rita Garoutte, Travis Pirtle, Cindy Vandeloo, Maggie Anderson, Rayden Holman 8, Emmy Shorter 11, twins-Ryker & Raeleigh DeJager...