Remember those signs you used to see along the highway? Last chance for gas? Last chance for food? Last chance for clean restrooms before you hit primitive conditions? Well here it is—your last chance to help Meals on Wheels!!! Well maybe not literally your last Continue reading →
Blogging is a funny thing…we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, “who is this person!?” I know them…but yet I don’t know them! I want to know who the person Continue reading →
My friend, Bernie, over at One Mixed Bag used a writing prompt from The Lightning and the Lightning Bug today and I think it is such a great idea that I am going to do it, too, and jump on in!! Thanks, Bernie, for the Continue reading →
I See the Poor Element Video with Live Footage from Justin Crutchfield on Vimeo. Continue reading →
For those of you have been following me for a couple of weeks or more you may remember the post on June 1st I posted a picture of a whole bunch of stuff that I had bought at Archiver’s on a recent trip with my Continue reading →
This week I am enjoying my annual retreat from reality. Though my husband would probably say that I retreat daily…..nonetheless–I am enjoying R & R, family time, vacation, and worship all rolled into one! I am at Lakeside on Lake Erie for the week —I Continue reading →
I have had a lot of time to think and read this week and it has been good. Not that I don’t think every day—I promise I do even if my blog posts don’t always give evidence of that! I have always believed that we Continue reading →
Many of you know of my ongoing battle ….the battle between feeding the birds and feeding all of the other wildlife that seems to want to be a part of the Chiles household. We get them all—-squirrels, chipmunks, deer and the occasional rabbit who eats Continue reading →
I just finished this book called The Chocolate Pirate Plot by JoAnna Carl. I just put it on my list of books read in 2011. Check it out. Not the deepest book I have ever read, trust me, but entertaining none the less. And Continue reading →
Today’s teapot from my massive collection (which has grown a bit over the past couple of weeks because I have found some really great ones I will be sharing with you later) comes from a department store when we lived in Pennsylvania. I think it Continue reading →