I had an altercation with a squirrel yesterday. He (or she), with the help of some buddies I guess, had gnawed through the screen on our back porch and helped themselves to some birdseed that we had mistakenly left there. We returned from out of town to find the aftermath – seed scattered everywhere, big […]
Typing Class kept me out of the Beta Club in high school. The standard for getting into the club was pretty stiff. You had to make all A’s one semester and then maintain an A/B average for the rest of your high school career. (We didn’t keep grade point averages way back then.) The only […]
There was a story in my master’s class required reading about a modern-day shepherd intern whose job was to take a large flock of sheep up into the mountains for better water and grazing during the hot, dry summer months. The shepherd learned that during this mountain journey, lambs are still quite small and often […]
Our first snow of the season came yesterday around noon and lasted all day. It wasn’t a blizzard; just slow and steady – creating an optic white plush blanket over our world. This morning the white against the brown wood of our deck looks so much like a gingerbread village that I can’t help but […]
One day last week I looked for my purse for over an hour. It wasn’t that I needed to go out somewhere – a trip that would require car keys and a driver’s license that permanently reside in the purse. I was merely looking for something else that I was sure I had placed there. […]
It was torturous but it was necessary. The week before Christmas I found myself engaged in my least favorite activity of all things- waiting in a long, slow-moving check out line at a department store. I had to get those last minute items for the holidays and this was the only time and place to […]
On our drive home from Nashville this weekend, I couldn’t help lamenting (again) the barrenness of the deciduous trees along the way. But then I started to notice the plentiful clusters of mistletoe in many of those trees. Then I remembered my daddy shooting down the mistletoe every Christmas from an old oak tree in […]
What do a clothespin, a half-used tube of toothpaste, a nightlight bulb, a rubber sink stopper, and a golf ball have in common? Nothing that I can see. Recently I was searching for something, which I still haven’t found, and there they were – these five seemingly random items waiting patiently in a drawer. Being […]
I love the fall. And up here on Leadpole Mountain it’s been especially gorgeous. The locals say that the weather conditions haven’t been ideal this year to produce great foliage colors, but you won’t hear me complain. I can’t imagine a prettier view than the one from my back deck overlooking the Nacoochee Valley and […]
Up here in the beautiful north Georgia mountains I have God moments everyday – several times a day, in fact. The Nacoochee Valley is turning into a patchwork quilt that, like I predicted, Yonah –our signature mountain – would soon pull up around her before winter. The leaves are slower to turn this year, the […]