Miss Cassie Ruth loves her water. We enjoy taking her to the back where she can run and play. Can’t take Gauge. He likes to run off for hours. Cassie stays close like a good dog should.

Most of my days seem to be a whirl of activity that takes me from one task to another, each important in its own way, yet some how nothing ever seems to get completed. I make sure that Devon’s homeschool is kept up to date. On bad days when he doesn’t want to do his [...]

Check it out. 23 quarts of aluminum bliss, baby. Shiny. It is its own bling.

Mmmmm. Sparkly.
It’ll hold 7 quart jars. My old canner would only hold 8 pints. I’m thrilled. And the fact that it’s summer, with all the fresh fruits and vegetables, means I’ll be busy using all it’s shiny new features.

Cool, eh?
I think [...]

I really need to rethink the blog. I get ideas and usually Facebook them, but do all those folks really want to know every thought that pops into my head? Probably not. It’s a pretty open forum and a lot of folks I don’t really KNOW but like to follow and like them following me…especially [...]

Shoes that is. Got a tweet from Lucky Magazine about buying customized Van shoes. So I loaded it up to see what they had. While I’d love to have a pair, there’s not enough padding in them for these failing knees. But the boy would like a pair I’m sure. So since he’s a camo [...]

We captured a Bold Jumper. We fed him a fly. He literally jumped up and grabbed the dead fly off of the stick I was holding, and then, we stuck him in a jar. Devon called him Pluto. So now, Pluto the Bold Jumper is sitting on my desk in a jar looking at me, [...]