My sous chef dish-washing mom and I belong to a garden club. By the very nature of “garden” club one might think we are gardeners. That would be wrong. We like plants, we have both toyed with growing a flowering plant or two, but gardeners we are not. We do have this little garden close … Read more
When our granddaughter Abbey arrived for a visit last fall one of the first things she asked of her Grandpa Lee is, “Do you have any black walnuts?” Earlier this summer Abbey had been the recipient of fresh black walnuts from Grandpa Lee’s walnut trees. She told us that she used them in a recipe … Read more
I have a friend who was in the hospital the week before Easter. She and her husband always have the family gather at their house for holidays and she was telling me that this year she wasn’t going to be up to having a big Easter dinner. “I did ask my daughter to please try … Read more
Driving into town last week I read this sign in a local church yard. A half truth, a “little white lie”, a twist of truth … is still a whole lie. This has bounced around in my head all through the week, not to mention the many times I drove that road in to town … Read more
Today is Maundy Thursday. It is the Christian holy day, falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Maundy and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles as described in the Canonical gospels. “And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we … Read more
Last week my sous chef dish-washing mom was tasked to bring dessert to our fellowship lunch for Community Bible Study held on Thursday. We share a lunch together once a month and this was the teacher’s month to bring the food. When I asked her what she planned to make she said, “the pudding dessert.” … Read more