I honestly don’t know if it’s because we’re older now or have officially embraced the Yooper mindset to the point where we can’t remember the days where this wasn’t our life, but either way, we had the best date we may have ever had yesterday. So much so that when we went to bed, we […]

Things change. Time marches on. Time flies. Yes, indeed. There’s never enough of time until we’re stuck in something we don’t like and then there’s too much of it. I’m convinced we just can’t get a good grasp on the concept of it, but we sure can feel powerless about it sometimes. This Christmas, my […]

A dinner bell once hung outside our home.  It was to be rung when folks needed to be called from all directions around the farm.  It was my noisy way to say, *Hey, Family! I need you closer!* But changes are happening at the Kirksey abode.  This spring when the hot tub got hauled out […]