Sometime in the past week or so, don’t ask me when as the last ten days have been a blur, the sweet neighbor of our Rachel and Zach was out working on readying her flower beds and asking me questions that somehow she thought I might know the answers to. Her little ones were running…
An oft quoted bit of wisdom here in the Midwest is that it is only safe to put your flowers out in pots after Mother’s Day. This year we had a stretch of downright summery weather and it was rather tempting to start working on those planters, but wisdom is wisdom and glad we are…
I have told the story before of a young man who frequently walks the circle around our neighborhood when the weather is warm and amicable to us. As he walks, he stops and turns toward the street and waves with the biggest smile for every single passing car. Every. Single. Car. We always wave and…