Today is the Sunday following Thanksgiving and there is a blizzard in Iowa headed toward us. I am reminded of our many trips to Kentucky to celebrate Thanksgiving with Buck’s folks at their Kentucky Lake home and often our return trip was an icy, snowy event. In those days Interstate 39 was just being laid out and the two lane 51 highway was our only path back home. In those years the bridge at Paducah was scary to cross especially with ice. At times it was a treacherous dri

Looking out the window today, one would expect it to be a white Christmas, when in fact it is a week before Thanksgiving. Winter has already begun with below freezing temperature and falling snow. Merchants love this cold snowy weather. It’s good for holiday sales. It puts everyone in the mood to shop. But, sadly, my favorite holiday is slowly being shoved aside with Black Friday encroaching on Thanksgiving Day. Now the stores open at mid-night or even earlier in the afterno

This is the end of October and the beginning of November. Two months when we are reminded of important information. Number one: Check your smoke alarms and change the batteries. If you live someplace like me where the ceilings are very high, don’t even think about getting on a ladder. Come to think of it, even if your ceilings are normal height, don’t climb on a ladder! You can do what I do. I tell the men in my life that the Mother-In-Law will be living with them if she fal