Mr. Farmer rotates his crops so we had beans last year... corn this year. In 2024, corn was harvested on October 24th. Last...
Fall in Indiana
weekend breakfasts and my role in them
For as long as I've been the queen of any household, big breakfasts on weekends have been a tradition. Typically, breakfast...
pumpkin cream cheese muffins go great with coffee
Today is my coffee maker's birthday. It turned 5 years old! My current Kuerig coffee maker has lasted 5 times longer than...
fall is fabulous in Indiana and i’m thrilled i don’t drive a school bus
I'm loving the current Indiana weather... although it crept near 90° yesterday. While it is supposed to rain today,...
it’s a good thing we don’t own chihuahuas
I am the proud owner of two big dogs -- each over 100 pounds. Hugo qualifies as a medium sized dog and is a more manageable...
apparently, my windows belong to the spiders
Living in rural Indiana means accepting a few things: muddy paw prints, bugs, wildlife—and apparently, spiders who consider...
be specific when you put wishes into the universe
I said I was tired of summer and wanted fall. What I failed to do was say I wanted EARLY fall, and not the fall that hits...
do you define seasons by meteorological or astronomical?
Waiting on snow to roll in last night, I got an email from the weather channel letting me know that November 30th was the...
am i a ticking time bomb hindering economic growth?
I recently read an article that basically said there are too many of us oldies but goodies and not enough working-age...









