Category: The Softer Side

The Duster Coat first caught my attention when my daughter, Tammy, decided to make one for a friend. She obtained a pattern from Etsy online and fabric from Joann’s. She completed […]

Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the watersAround you have grown… I will let you google the rest of the song if you wish. It wasn’t really the […]

A little while ago I was talking to an old-timer who grew up in Underhill. We were reminiscing about the old days here in town. He went back further in […]

While researching background on Dave Dion , the famous local race car driver, for the following story, I got to thinking about something that happened way back in the 1970s […]

The other day I was thinking about what had to be done before the first snow started to come down and realized that the jobs had changed over the years.  […]

The other day, during yet another rainy spell, I was watching the rain gutter downspouts spill water into a flower bed and thought about rain barrels. I went on Amazon […]

You have probably been asked this question many times; I know I have. If you had a lot of money……. The question next is… What is a lot of money? […]

We got our first “family” pet when our sons were in third and fifth grade. It had been brought to our attention many times that it would be wonderful to […]

If you’re anything like me, when you’re traveling a great distance, you stop at rest areas to take a break from driving, use the facilities, or maybe get a candy […]

The other day I was stretched out on the couch in front of the wood stove looking at the cobwebs (it’s worse when the sun is shining) when it sounded […]