Lets Jump Together

The Nature show on PBS featured this great episode a couple of weeks ago.
It was titled: Christmas in Yellowstone.
The photography is superb and the show was a joy to watch.
I am looking forward to when this one is rebroadcast.
The lady who narrated it had the perfect voice and tone as she told of the shortened [...]

It all began the end of last winter.
We started hearing a rattling vibration just under the floor in our bedroom.
It would wake us up in the middle of the night.
The first few times my heart was beating so quickly, I was sure it was going to burst.
It would happen each night, and we thought it [...]

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 Nature show on PBS featured the Harpy Eagle of South America on this past week’s episode.
Known as the “Jungle Eagle,” these remarkable birds stand three feet tall and have a six foot wingspan.
Their sharp talons are as long as a bear’s claw, and they use these massive talons to catch monkeys and sloths to [...]

“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 [...]