I've been working on installing a DIY patio now for several weeks. By myself, I dug out the area and transported the sod to the backyard where it can be tilled and incorporated into a deep slope. By Saturday, I had finished digging out all the sod and spent that...
I am continuing to work on the patio area when it is not raining. I got a little more dug out today, but it was very hot, muggy, and buggy. The gnats were terrible. It seems lavender repels them a little, and I have a spray that I use to keep them away from my face...
I've never heard this term, Psychosomatic Health, used before until I found a chapter about it in a book I recently mentioned on this blog. I'm taking a break from posting on my progress on digging out the patio area. I'm hoping that in two weeks I can post the...
I love old sayings like the one in the title of today's blog. They can be an encouragement to work hard and not give up. I found this old saying in The Long Winter, a book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. As a child, and as an adult, these says flit through my mind...
I recently visited my parents as my dad celebrated his 90th birthday. He is a retired Southern Baptist Preacher who graduated from Fruitland Baptist Bible College in Hendersonville, N.C. I've mentioned in a previous blogpost that I was being allowed to take his old...