Category: Mountain Dreams

In time for the frosty nights across the country Leon Hale writes this in this morning’s Houston Chronicle. Warm toes Sleeping with the feet on a hot brick is a familiar custom to me. It was based on the theory that if you keep your feet warm, you’ll stay warm all over. I once thought that all families everywhere slept

Good Morning, Pardon me while I pour my first cup of coffee…Ahhhh, that’s better. I see from my morning email from the My-Cast Weather Center that the country’s climate model is turned upside down again this morning. The temperature here is 35 as I type this which is a few degrees above the forecasted low for last night. And there

Consider this a test after a week of hard-drive problems.Also I will use this as my Photo Friday entry for “Peaceful”

I think it’s time to give him the diploma… “I began to think, well, if failure is not an option and we’ve got to succeed, how best to do so? And that’s how I came up with the plan I did,” Bush said. Bush has earned his PhD in Government. I have never seen the BS piled higher or deeper

Sorry for the lack of posts these past couple of weeks. With a rush of (as always) last minute projects at work, and trying to do a little maintenance here at home I’ve barely kept up with emails and rss feeds of my normal reading. I’ve also restarted my genealogy research. If you really want to kill some quantity of

Who would have thought that the competence of George W Bush’s first campaign slogan would be so in line with the rest of his administration. Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t he run as a compassionate conservative who would unite the two parties? Looks like it only took the compassionate conservative six long years to accomplish the goal he

Yes! magazine has their Winter 2007 Issue online. The first paragraph of the first article starts this way…  Call it “globalization,” or the “free market,” or “capitalism.” Whatever its name, people across the United States and throughout the world are experiencing the devastating effects of an economy that places profit above all else. I haven’t had the chance yet to read the

Kate up at Cider Press Hill posted about these today… My new shopping bags My grocery store is trying out a new product. Last night when I approached the check out counter (I think I was the only shopper in the store at 10:30 PM), there was a display of reusable shopping bags. Like these: I like the idea and the

You know, it’s taken all these years for Molly to get mad, now that she is…She writes a hell of a great piece. I am only sorry she didn’t get mad 4 years ago. The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a duck — so it’s up to us. You and me, Bubba. I

 Now here’s a gardening ~ living concept to write home about. Slow Gardening from Slow Cooking, very Zen… Leave it to Felder Rushing to come up with a concept that will get us thinking about our gardens in new ways. Slow Gardening, which gets it cues from the Slow Food movement, is gardening according to your climate and with your