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Happy Birthday Mom

My mom would have turned 91 today.  She died in 1995 at the age of 74.

I posted more about my mom last Mother’s Day.

Miss you Mom.

 

We have a little visitor

This little girl wandered into my yard this afternoon.  My grandson went up and down the street looking for the owner but we haven’t found them.  She’s awfully skinny.  One of the people up the street said they saw her and a wiener dog chasing a deer yesterday.    Gus and Trixie seem to [...]

Wild Turkeys

These birds (turkeys I think, but I’m never sure) were huge!  They were at least two and a half feet tall.

Trixie way laying on the steps this afternoon where she could see out the front door and started barking like crazy when she saw these birds in my front yard.  I went to see what [...]

Faulty Furnace Fun

My furnace has been acting up for the last couple of weeks.  At first I noticed that it didn’t come on when it was supposed to.  I went down and did a few things that I know how to do and got it working.  A few days later the same thing happened.  I was [...]

The Barn Under Blue Skies

This barn sits on some property my parents owned on highway 67 in southeastern Missouri from about 1970 until 1990.  Our family built this barn in the early 1970s.  It’s the only building still standing on the 55 acre property.  It’s in pretty bad shape but it’s still standing.  My parent’s lived in a [...]

Bella: Something To Dance For

Bella got an early Christmas present.  She was recently told that after a 2 and a half year battle she is 100% cancer-free.  It took a great medical team, support of family and friends, some good luck, a lot of well wishes and prayers and her unbelievably determined spirit to hang in there through thick and thin in [...]

Our Christmas Card

This is the picture I used for the front of our Christmas card this year.  I took this photograph last Christmas morning in front of our neighbor’s house while walking the dogs.  I went home and printed out an 8X10 of it and gave it to the neighbor.  Click to enlarge

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Christmas Open Mic

Good tidings to you and you kin. 

Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a [...]

Big-ass turkeys

I took these pictures this morning of a group of birds perched in the trees overlooking the river.

 

My knees really get around

John sends along a note that my knees are featured on the home page of whitetrashrepair.com today.

I’m so proud!

Thanks John