Yes! Yes! Yes, I did go horseback riding — not on my exact 87th birthday but 10 days into my 88th year!
I know this is not the most important happening I should write about — like the fragrant blizzard of pink and white blossoms now blowing across the driveway, like the two darling goslings paddling […]
No, I didn’t go horseback riding on my 87th birthday, the first time in many, many years I haven’t observed that tradition — but only because no “suitable” horse was available.
Last year, there was a darling mare, Angel, visiting at Judy’s during one of her dressage clinics, and I was privileged to ride her. At […]
If you’re not from the tri-county — Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana — area, you might not find this column of interest.
On the other hand, if you have a hankering to know what it was like to live in the early 1900s in a small community along the Sandy and Beaver Canal and the middle fork of […]
It’s about time, Mother Nature! You must have finally been paying attention to all the hoopla about “Going Green” and decided to give it a try because everywhere there is, indeed, green!
Not all at once
This hasn’t happened all at once. I watched the barberry hedges begin to sport a filmy veil that gradually evolved […]
Never having lived with a cow, I know almost nothing about cows — and I truly believe that unless you actually live with an animal, even another person, you know next to nothing about them.
It’s that day-to-day contact, not necessarily under the same roof, but better if that’s possible, which lets you “see” into their […]
Full-figured Bingo is not quite sure where she is just yet.
But, with typical feline curiosity, she is exploring every corner of every room, every cupboard, every closed door, every possible hidey-hole.
In fact, this morning — her first here, having arrived only yesterday — I almost panicked because I couldn’t find her anywhere. We had become […]
I do not want to write this column. But I must.
February has once again taken a beloved member of this family.
Beginning in 1965, February took my mother. Through the years it took a dear Dalmatian, Maggie; my father; my sister; my Arabian, Pinkie.
And now, my Lisa.
She spoke to me
Lisa came to me as a […]
If there is anything more rib-sticking, more delicious, more comforting, more warming to the cockles of your heart in these continuing assaults by King Winter, it has to be honest-to-God, old-fashioned buckwheat cakes served with honest-to-God maple syrup and either bacon or sweet sausage.
(According to my Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, cockles are puckers and wrinkles, […]
Where is global warming when we need it? And what happened to a January thaw? I think bears have the right idea. In fact, for one solid week, I copied them. I hibernated. Literally.
The Friday that the Abominable Snowman was huffing and puffing to get a good start, I went to the store and stocked […]
Take heart, friends, take heart — Groundhog Day approaches!
And whether or not the furry rodent sees his shadow, spring is just six weeks away and while King Winter hasn’t reigned very long by the calendar, it only seems as though the season has been here forever.
Those folks who decorate extensively for Christmas had to […]
