Wife, Mother, Grandmother Great-grandmother. Retired. Bluegrass. Genealogy. Living the life.
Mar 04
I usually don’t write anything on weekends, but I couldn’t resist this. When I quit working a few years ago, I intended to spend most of my free time on genealogy. And, for the most part, for about 3 years I kept up pretty well. But, this past year a lot of my time has …
Mar 02
In the past week, we have really had it. Stuff has been falling from the sky, snow, rain, ice, sleet, a little of everything. The GD’s were here for a couple of days, but the older wasn’t feeling good, so I took them home. Thank goodness, the roads and the sky were clear that day. …
Feb 26
Today, I read a post on a mailing list that brought a bunch of stuff back, so here goes: Until last August, D2 lived on old US 131, which is also called Mackinaw Trail and 210th Avenue, just south of Ashton and about 6 miles north of Reed City, Michigan. Across the road was the …
Feb 22
You would think, having raised three children and experienced the addition of five grandchildren to my family, I would have calmed down and could roll with the punches by now. Perhaps my perfection expectation will never take complete leave. I can stand the messy desks, some messy tabletops, and the cat or kid toys on …
Feb 20
Papa and I went to the camper show yesterday Saturday. Talk about up and down. We went in and out of many trailers and class C motor homes and decided we will stick with Lex for now. Lex has some drawbacks, but is already in our drive. Using him requires no payments, no hustle and …
Feb 20
It’s pretty nice out here today. I know that because at 5:30 when we got up, the temp was still 32, above freezing. I put the garbage out and didn’t freeze, even without a coat. I’m working on a little project so that will keep me off the street for a while. The news of …
Feb 19
Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way -John Phillips Monday has been and is a profound topic, in my experience. When I was in school, Monday didn’t have the appeal of Thursday or Friday. Same thing at work. Sometimes I wonder why being sad on Monday is such …
Feb 18
What did I do to get me so much spam traffic overnight? I’d hardly had any, and there were twenty-three (23!) this morning.
