I love the Fair!

I’ve always loved the fair, since I joined 4H when I was 10. We had cattle, so my first introduction to the fair was showing a heifer. Too bad I can’t find a picture of me in my cowboy boots and belt with the Elvis belt buckle and my name burned in to the back…

You Can’t Win What You Don’t Enter

I’ve told my boys over the last few years when I’ve encouraged them to participate in contests or sports or scouts that they can’t win what they don’t enter. If you don’t participate in archery, you can’t win. If you don’t enter the writing contest, you won’t have any chance of winning. In fact, McKinley…

Remembering Peach

Our little kitty, Peach, died a couple of weeks ago. We only had him for about 6 months. We adopted him in early November from the Peninsula Humane Society (where we had previously adopted 3 kittens). McKinley and I had gone there on a Friday afternoon in October to check out the black cats, which…

Motivation is EVERYTHING!

Writing can be a pain in the butt! It can really be hard to sit down and write sometimes. Other times it just rolls off the fingertips (or the pen, if you are old school). I had an epiphany last week when Jasper was finishing his Middle College application. He sat down and wrote his…