Woodsong
February 25, 2009
- I have been busy all day with housekeeping details--they never end--and working on an article that was first started in 2007. It needs cutting, adding to, endnotes reworked, etc. For the most part, this is boring work. (Although sometimes I run into something new while checking out sources and then I get excited.) Tonight I went to First Place at Center, and afterwards some of us filled our last ...
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February 22, 2009
- A weekend highlight happened Friday afternoon when our granddaughter Leslie dropped by Woodsong. She was on her way up from Belmont in Nashville, Tennessee, to see two girl friends at the University of Illinois. The next day the three were heading over to Belleville to meet up with the Freeport High School speech team at the state tournament. Today Leslie made the long drive back to ...
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February 1, 2009
- The ice here thawed enough I could drive to town yesterday morning for my weekly hair appointment. I ran by my daughter’s, but she was asleep and never knew I had visited. In the afternoon, Gerald and I went over to Southern Illinois University Carbondale to watch his friend Steve Soldner’s daughter Regan play basketball with Missouri State against the Salukis. Steve sells Peterbilts ...
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January 28, 2009
- We are iced in here at the farm, but we are warm, well fed, and with electricity. I wish everyone were so blessed. Yesterday our daughter Katherine phoned and asked if it was pretty looking out our large curtainless windows. Although the roads were covered with ice, the fields were largely brown. I had to say no. But when we woke up this morning, it had snowed several inches, and the ...
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January 18, 2009
- Well, I just this moment discovered that I did not blog on Wednesday night. Why? I have no idea! I proudly announced at Writers Guild on Thursday night that I blog twice a week, and I thought I was telling the truth. It did not occur to me then or until now that I somehow missed Wednesday night. What was I doing Wednesday night? I have no idea. Probably surfing. Or maybe I went to bed early. I ...
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December 4, 2008
- Mary Ellen called from up the road apiece on Friday that they had discovered the controller for the TV in the den was accidentally in their basket of games picked up just before they left our place to head to their other family’s home. Should they return it? Naw, just wait until Christmas when you come down. Later Mary Ellen reports that Elijah’s coat was left in their camper. Brianna’s ...
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November 28, 2008
- There is still a piece or two of pumpkin pie left. Broth from the turkey carcass is ready to be put in the freezer tomorrow. And it will be time to cook something new to go with the left-over turkey from yesterday and the lasagna we had on Wednesday night. My house is quiet right now because Jeannie and the kids have gone into town to the movies. With just one family in the house, there won’t ...
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November 12, 2008
- Members of Southern Illinois Writers Guild offered their books at our table Saturday and Sunday at the annual AutumnFest at John A. Logan College. We also display and sell our anthologies, but we have noticed a big decline in buying since the rise in gas prices. I enjoyed the day there Saturday with other writer friends. Our village church will be having our Thanksgiving feast this Saturday ...
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November 2, 2008
- Leaves on trees lining the highway have finally joined the color display of the orange, wine, and red leaves that have brightened lawns and back roads for a couple of weeks. As we drove to Lake Saint Louis yesterday, yellows predominated the color scheme, but all the colors were there making it a lovely drive. As we drove from ball field to ball field through suburban country in the west ...
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October 29, 2008
- Fifty years ago today one of my fondest wishes came true. I had a new baby son. So naturally I have thought about Gerry all day today. After I had put on a roast for our noon meal, I had time read a bit of Charles Frazier’s thirteen moons and regretted having to stop just when I got to the part of the story about the Cherokee Removal. Being able to leave a clean kitchen to come ...
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