My family actually took vacations in my youth. Not camping at the lake or short trips to the zoo, but real vacations. Oh...
Fall in Indiana
chicken poop and spiders: country living is not for the weak
A quick trip outside with the puppies early morning -- while everything was still covered in a frosty dew -- I noticed how...
frost, yard work & no skydiving
Yesterday, 10/10/23, was the first big frost of the season. The black rails on the deck here were white when I got up, and...
i think i’m about to pull through!
I'm just now starting to feel a bit better. Jerilyn said her son, Jonathan, just got back from Disney and he's sick. Sure...
someone is building a room upstairs
When I was a kid, I remember my Momma telling me it sounded like I was "building a room" when I made a whole lot of noise...
huffed and puffed and blew the pool cover off
When you hire someone to build a deck around your pool that's never built a pool deck, you might have trouble with the...
the bean field is now beanless
The fields bordering the barndo are naked and harvest 2023 is in the books. Finishing up yesterday, all the work on this...
summer’s last hurrah
If forecasters are correct, southern Indiana is set to experience summer-like temps this week before the big fall cool...
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