Category Homestead Happenings

Mourning duck damage

I just can’t believe it. Twice in one week, I have inadvertently broken two priceless family heirlooms (no wise cracks there, please). The first accident came Wednesday evening as I was putting clean coffee mugs back into the cabinet after…

Rain and preaching

I left Little Rock Sunday morning early so that I could arrive in Newark, Arkansas in plenty of time to visit with pastor/friend Jody Smotherman. It rained on me the entire way there, and as I exited Highway 167, the…

It’s snowing… again!

It snowed for about 30 minutes last earlier this week, but nothing stuck. Northern and central Arkansas got all the good stuff. However, weather reports for us today say that we may get 1-3 inches of the white stuff! Schools…

New do

By now, most folks around here have seen the result of my last hair cut. Usually, when people ask if I got a haircut, I say, “No, I got them all cut.” However, this past experience was a dramatic testimony…

Resolutions: Fancy Lover

My daughter’s dog and I don’t get along. At all. For starters, she barks incessantly, even maniacally at the slightest noise. I can alter my voice while in another room, and she’ll literally bark herself into hysteria at the thought…