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  • The Hardest Decision I Made All Day

        What to eat fer dinner?  Have a big, juicy steak or a big, red lobster? Steak? Or lobster? Steak? Or lobster? Steak? Or...knock, knock! Who der? Fork? Fork who? Put a fork in da steak and grab me da lobster! Yeah, I didn'...
  • Fatty

        It's obvious that I don't feed her enough....
  • Real and Costly Love

        “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to...
  • Cats

        Somebody decided to burden my life graciously give me this low-dow rascal cute lil cat last Fall.  I use the word "give" loosely.  I didn't want nor need a cat, but apparently somebody out there thought that I did.&nb...
  • The Insect

        “If all the insects were to disappear from the earth,within 50 years all life on earth would end.If all human beings disappeared from the earth,within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” -Jonas Salk, 1914-1995Medical researc...
  • Rhubarb Crumble

        I've had this same rhubarb plant for the last five or six years.  It's an easy plant to grow and seems to thrive in all kinds of weather we have here in Tennessee.  The leaves on them are so pretty that I almost hate ...
  • I Want to Haz Dis

        Besides running into the bear on my trip, this picture was at the top of my highlight list.  As I walked into the room, it made me do a Arnold Horshack and go, "OOOOOHHHH!  OOOOOOHHHH!  I want that!"     If ...
  • Man Toys

      The owner of the cabin we stayed in last weekend took us out to his garage and showed us his toys.  This Dodge Viper was one of them.  He said he takes it out maybe twice a year to drive it.  He sure had some pretty toys but I d...
  • Cat Wednesday

        What duties do cats pay attention to?  None.  They sit around, sleep and stretch all day long.  They look so comfy and self-satisfied by doing absolutely nothing all day long. It's been raining here off and on today....
  • Cracklin Salad

        I've been out to the garden and picked a bowl full of lettuce this morning.  I'm gonna fix a real healthy salad for lunch with it.     Ever had cracklin salad?  You take fresh greens from a spring garden, ch...
  • Your Mother Isn't So Dumb

        "If you're gonna catch him, don't grab his tail." "But why, Mama?" "Cuz he'll break his tail off to escape."     I'll save the sad picture and just say that children don't listen very well....
  • A Stiff One

        “There is a solitude which each andevery one of us has always carried within.More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,more profound than the midnight sea:the solitude of self.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton And for some, a stiff dri...
  • Smokey Mountains

        “Rocky top, you’ll always beHome sweet home to me.Good ‘ole Rocky topRocky top Tennessee”...
  • Bear With Me

        “My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother,who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother,who repeated it to her daughter, my mother,who used to remind her daughter, my own sister,that to talk well and eloquentl...
  • Sweet Williams

        I've got about 4 different colors of these flowers.  They range in various shades of red to a salmon color.     They're easy to grow and seem to like the full sun I have them growing in.  I got one cluster g...
  • Chicken BLT With Tater Cakes

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  • Snack

        Medjool dates, parmesean cheese, and walnuts....
  • Flooded

      We didn't get hit as hard as Nashville did with the floods, but ya still needed a boat to get around in my neck of the woods at Turner Station.           And if'n I wanted to make my way back to the farm, I w...
  • Sweets

        These were Candylicious.  They were white chocolate covered Rice Krispie treats and they were delicious.  And now gone....
  • Getting The Gardens Ready

         "Money may buy you a first-class education, but it can't buy you a work ethic."    Welp, the ground has been plowed.  The only decision now is which garden do I put the taters in?  We could put 'em in that fi...