A Pinch of Joy

Flood recovery continues.  One of the groups to which I belong will be serving 200 lunches to workers this week — two weeks after the main hotel district was totally flooded. Tourism dropped to almost nothing for the rest of the summer.  Workers lost their jobs and brides lost their venue, homes were damaged, gardens […]

It’s been an unusual week.  Eight inches of rain in four hours – on the Great Plains in the summer time.  Not usual.   The ground was already wet from a series of smaller rains earlier –  not usual – that it could not absorb the additional.  The lowest quadrant of town flooded – not from […]

We had a wonderful Fourth.  Sister Bee hosted the usual extravaganza with food, friends, family and fireworks.  Then wrapped it all up with multiple kinds of homemade ice cream!  The rain held off until just as we were leaving.  Couldn’t ask for more!  I was delighted to learn the proper name for spats from the […]

Wedding weekend! The bride was best person for her brother a couple of years ago. He returned the favor as bridal attendant complete with daisy bouquet. Short Stuff was the flower bearer, throwing handfuls of petals high in the air. Grandpa walked the bride halfway down the aisle, where stepfather met them, then he and […]