Blueberries are Lee's favorite fruit. We have tried to grow them, unsuccessfully. I think the location and soil has a lot to do with it,...

When we built the barn and the pastures for the horses I was not working at the library. When I was called and informed that I had gotten th...

It is Father's Day and there are no kids, so it falls to me to treat Lee. Unlike me he hates eating in bed!!! What's up with THAT! ...

Our newspaper, The Roanoke Times, recently printed three different banana bread recipes reprinted from Maida Heatter's Cakes. I decided ...

The grass is high and the weather is hot, so it is time to hay our fields again. If we had the equipment and expertise I would like to do it...

I have a tendency to be obsessive/compulsive. So now that I have the knitting bug I am going crazy. I promised my daughter Trista, in Englan...

It's Mother's Day today and for the first time in 31 years there are no children to help me celebrate. They are all elsewhere. Fortu...