A couple of weeks ago, I had lunch with a dear friend. She reached out to me in an email and asked if I wanted to have lunch with her…at her house. She wrote, “I know it’s old fashioned and not very fancy, but my hearing is getting quite bad, and it’s easier for me in a home setting.” That sounded lovely to me. When I walked through…
Thankful is a choice. Daily. With every moment. It’s a practice. This article is not about Thanksgiving Day but rather every day. It’s about the big things, like a new baby, a job promotion, and a new love. They are so easy to be thankful for. It is the little things, though, that get overlooked and are rarely appreciated that should be celebrated. A hot cup of…
This morning on my walk up to the pasture, I heard Spring. Birds… When I walked by the woods, I noticed the blue tubing was up — the sap lines were ready to receive and transport the sap run. In the air, a hint: The very faint smell of earth, gently nudged at my nose on its way by. It gave me an extra spring in my step…
Oh, how I loved the opening day of fishing. It meant spring and an early morning wake-up on the last Saturday of April every year. My sisters, father and I would meet W and his sons in the dark up in Boscawen at their farm. Poles in hand, our fathers would drive us up to Franklin, to wet a line just as the sun was coming up over…
Editor’s note: Click here to view the video. It’s definitely January here in the northeast. I think that we might have seen the sun for about 2 hours last week. I don’t think at all the week before. Blah, blah, blah… Here’s a video for you this week :-). Happy Monday my friends, days are getting longer, we’ll be planting corn in no time! Don’t forget to take…