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This photo popped up on “This day in history.”   It left me feeling very weird.   To you, it is just a normal ordinary river  …  just like any other normal ordinary river.   But this river no longer exists.…

As green beans grow, they stretch  …  and they reach!    The stretching, growing, reaching end of green bean runners are very tender and pliable.    This gives them the ability to twist, bend, curl, and wrap around things  ……

Last night as I was in the kitchen fixing dinner, little Jr. deer came wandering by.    He is definitely in the adolescent teenager phase!    The last few times I have seen him, he has been venturing off on…

Life is messy.    When we pour ourselves out to love and care for other people, it will be messy.  And in the process, we will inevitably experience some pain … and some hurt.   That's part of being in…

Last Spring I wrote a blog post entitled:  “Bird Babies on a Beam.”   I would like to present to you version 2.0 – “Bird Babies on a Bright Bulb!”   After the bird babies from last summer had hatched…

The past two mornings we have woken up to snow covering the ground.  Here you can see a photo of our front flowerbed.  It looks pitiful … three small rhododendrons and a few small lavender plants … all…

I wrote to our Compassion kids last week.  I was so excited to tell them all about the daffodils blooming!  It has been such a long cold winter that our daffodils are just now beginning to open ……

We woke up this morning to 23 degrees.   Brrrr!   I opened the firebox door to get a fire started, and a cold draft rushed down the chimney and into the house.  “That’s going to be a problem,” I…