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Happy 25th blog post! To celebrate reaching 25 blog posts, I entered all of my email and WordPress subscribers into a random gift card drawing. The winner will receive a $15 gift card to his/her coffee house of choice. I asked my good friend, Carolyn, to pick the winner’s name, just to make the selection fair. So, here is the winner of the $15 gift card. Drum roll please… And the winner is… David Roland! I will be contacting you, David, for prize delivery. Congratulations to our winner! Thank you to everyone that has signed up for my email and READ MORE

This week, I thought I would give you another update on my chickens and chicken coop. As I mentioned in a previous post, my husband and I made a bargain to get some chickens, as soon as he completed a chicken coop out of free wood pallets. He did construct a chicken house, and we did buy the chicks. Unfortunately, the chicken coop was not quite ready for chickens, and required a major overhaul. We decided it needed more work than he could do with pallet wood, so he bought different materials and started from scratch. When the coop is READ MORE

Tonight’s post is going to be very short. This evening, I had to take my husband to the Emergency Room for some medical issues, and then I spent some time with him after the visit. Thankfully, he is doing better, but I did not have time to write my usual post. I hope you can understand. Sometimes, we need to put our family first. See you soon! READ MORE

I hope you enjoyed my re-post last week. I was hoping to get a new blog entry done last weekend, but I could not get it completed. For the last few weeks, I have been struggling with writer’s block. I sit at my computer and wait patiently for the words to flow from my mind, down to my fingertips, and onto the keyboard, but the words are not coming out right. Even after writing several sentences and doing re-writes, the words just don’t seem to fit with one another. What does a writer do when they find themselves in such READ MORE

This week, I have decided to postpone my planned blog post until this weekend. I think the post needs a little more time to develop. I hope to get it to you by Sunday evening. In the meantime, I thought you might like to revisit one of my more popular blog posts. It is one of my favorites. Happy reading! THANKFULNESS Recently, a dear friend was telling me about some obstacles she and her family are facing. Very frustrated and feeling overwhelmed, she asked me for some advice on how to deal with her circumstances. I shared several strategies with READ MORE