Lets Jump Together

Giving Thanks for a beautiful, loving family.
Giving Thanks for the delicious food we eat.
Giving Thanks for our home that has kept us warm and safe.
Giving Thanks that we live in a country where we can dream and achieve.
And Giving Thanks to the Men and Women who work to keep it that way.
Happy Thanksgiving!

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
I don’t know who stated this quote, but it is true in our area.
The bright colors are all gone and the winds have been quite brisk of late.
The days are dark early now, and the birds [...]

Many afternoons this summer and early fall were spent at the lake.
Getting our daily exercise in the form of swimming was excellent.
But as the days get considerably shorter and colder, we start to turn to another form of exercise.
The leaves are no longer on the trees in the woods.
And this weekend starts the hunting season [...]

The little pieces of chipped tree kept floating down just outside the window by my computer.
It kept grabbing my eye as I was working, so after a bit, I went outside to see what was going on.
There was a perfectly round hole in one of the branches in the tree beside my window.
But there was [...]

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for
biting winds than genial breezes.
Autumn is the mellower season,
and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
- by Samuel Butler

Fall arrives today in a rainy, muggy way as the leaves continue to make their slow journey to the ground in [...]

The lake water has been pretty chilly these last couple of weeks.
In fact, the only other person we have seen in the water has been a youngster that ran in and then right out again.
We are still taking our daily swim though, and are still loving every minute of it.
Besides the chilly water today, the [...]

It has begun to sneak slowly upon us.
This season of Autumn.
The mums are in the markets and displaying their autumn hues.
The leaves are falling quickly from the Ash trees in the yard.
The thermometer is reading 89 degrees this Labor Day weekend.
Summer is finding it so hard to let go.
But it will as it always [...]