A Pinch of Joy

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 […]

 Usually May 15 is the last frost day — it was around mid-February this year.  People have had their sprinklers on since March and everyone has mowed for the last several weeks.  I have stayed away from the flower sales because when I’ve ignored ” it’s not frost free yet” in the past, it didn’t […]

Bytes and I gave a talk to Speech Language Pathology students at the local university this week.  We shared our experience with Primary Progressive Aphasia/Frontal Temporal Degeneration, the disease that impacts speech first and eventually the rest of the body.   Yes, the same thing Bruce Willis has that affects  only .004% of the US population. […]

It has been a whirlwind week – both with weather and activity!!  Wishing a you a pleasant week ahead — make it your own!  Thanks for stopping by to share your awesome posts, great ideas and yummy recipes! Featured from last week:  Within My Own World – Rainy Days in Minnesota     Our Grand Lives – […]

The crab trees are budding – spring is here! And the wind is blowing gales – which keeps us in the house instead of out working in the yard – where I would rather be. A really hard rain took the remaining mulch and deposited it all over the patio.  The wind could be helpful […]