Are you in the Christmas spirit yet? I am! The tree is up with all my beloved old and new ornaments. There’s good smells from cinnamon and pine candles throughout the house. A few gifts are even already under the tree! Scruffy has a new Christmas sweater, hot chocolate is being drunk, and Christmas cards should arrive any day! Lately,…
Tag: God’s love
Loving a ‘Little Cockroach’
I love Bean. She was one of Rose’s puppies. Three went to friends at work and we kept one. We kept Bean. I love that dog. A cross between a Jack Russell terrier and an unknown, random Chihuahua, Bean has crazy, wiry hair. She is not the best looking dog by any stretch of the imagination. Yet to us, she…
Christmas at Peach Bottom
It was late October when fire reduced our barn to a heap of ashes. The landlord came from Bethesda, Maryland to tell my father that insurance did not cover his property. Only the 30 milk cows survived the flames. A temporary milking system was installed in a large shed, but hay and grain were destroyed in the inferno. Providentially a Nazarene…