Category Homestead Happenings

Carolyn’s folks were here over the weekend. They had a whirlwind Arkansas experience. From the 4H Range Events competition in Ferndale to a swim meet in Monticello to church to a Delta road trip, they stayed busy. After lunch on…

Sam is addicted to this television show, but I am going to be living it this weekend. Tomorrow, Sam and I will head to Ferndale, Arkansas which is the site of the state’s 4H Shooting Sports Competition held at the…

We got back this afternoon around 4:00 from our weekend at Beech Springs Baptist Camp near El Dorado. It was a fantastically relaxing weekend spent with some of our dearest friends – our Journey Church family. This was our second…

Just a quick smile… Carolyn is on her way to Little Rock for Adelyn’s fashion show. (Adelyn’s been at my parents all week, and has been attending some sort of fashion camp at Pulaski Academy. Obviously, you can tell I…

I hesitate to recount all the strange body part experiences we’ve had here at the Noble’s household. Ranging from butt boils, ear hair, and broken arms to vitiligo, shingles, and biscuit boogers, we’ve had them all. (The biscuit boogers were…

While Sam was playing his last baseball game tonight (which they lost 12-10), I started dreaming about a Reeses Blast from Sonic. After the game, Adelyn and I went to Sonic. Carolyn and Sam took off for Ferndale for the…

When what to my wandering eyes should appear But an urn of coffee with a man of great cheer. There’s really no describing how good that styro cup of hot java was last week. I asked Jim what he’d done…

I sent my mom an email this morning in response to her retirement reception that my family attended ysterday. She concluded a 33-year tenure at Pulaski Academy as the lower school librarian (she usually corrects me and says “media specialist”…