A Pinch of Joy

I prepared this post and left it in draft mode instead of scheduling a publish time — head hanging! Thanks to those who dropped me an email to let me know as we were on the road Sunday. My apologies to the Sunday partiers! We spent  last week where the Great Plains meet the Rocky […]

The drift roses in the oval planting bed are blooming up a storm.  The bushes are about 30 inches high this year instead of hugging the ground.  Blooms are beautiful and bountiful.  Mainly pink colors, with red, coral, yellow and white tucked in here and there.  Set off by a round sculpted deep green boxwood […]

The robot vacuum cleaner,  faithfully following the same program for nine years,  got lost this week. I pulled out my phone and clicked on the robot icon.  “Set new password” popped up, along with the advice to log in on my desktop.  There I was told to “Include: At least 8 characters including, Lower case […]

The graduation parties last week were super!   As we hit the interstate headed home, I turned on the weather app.  The screen lighted up with all sorts of activity –  red patches indicating severe high winds, possible hail and perhaps tornado.  No use stopping because no place to go besides empty farm land.   Watch the […]

Graduation weekend!  A party on Saturday and another on Sunday.  And we get to stay at Nate the Great’s house the night between!   It’s always great to see the graduates and hear their plans for the future.  Any service you need can be provided by a family member: aesthetician, attorney, pastors, computer techs, agriculture specialist, […]

 We’ve become the Grackle party house.  You know that one rental down the road where the party is all weekend.  Only these guys don’t know the weekend was over last month and they keep inviting more of  their grackle buddies. Slender, irredescent  partybirds dressed in all black with blue heads, grackles live in flocks of […]