Last weekend, Covenant College hosted their Campus Preview Weekend. I don't normally pay attention to these things, but this year a family friend was sending their youngest son to visit Covenant. When I picked up Derek I asked him if he...
I'm looking forward to Fall and the changing of colors in our area. The view in my backyard is Lookout Mountain and I love seeing the mountain on fire with fall colors. A few years ago I got to go...
I'm very excited about Fuller's birthday on Friday. We will celebrate at Grandma Great's house with a birthday breakfast (stick a candle in a muffin!). And then on Saturday at the lake we will have a family dinner with birthday...
I figure I finished about a quarter of the front porch priming today. I plan on working on another quarter tomorrow. Recently I have been taking some house things into my own hands, since I am the one at home...
I've been following the case brought by the Knox News-Sentinel against the Knox County Commission from a distance, but with interest all the same. Many blog posts have hit the net over the past couple of weeks on this...
No longer will I have to repeat this line from Sam Neil in Hunt for the Red October, for now I've seen a bit of the state, Glacier National Park and Yellowstone in Northwest Wyoming. We had a great...
A STORY ABOUT THE POSTAL SERVICE NO ONE HEARS ABOUT Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She...
Tonight was an interesting night for me , they held a math family night at my son's school. Ok he is only in the 4th grade so you would think math would not be a problem for me, it was...
On the afternoon of Friday, September, 21, we were told to immediately pack our classrooms, that movers would be arriving shortly, and that we were to open at a different location the following Monday. There went that weekend. The new...
Now don't cheat on this one, go with the first dessert you choose! If all of the eight desserts listed below were sitting in front of you, which would you choose (sorry, you can only pick one)! Trust me...this...
WHY YOU SHOULD SHUT DOWN YOUR COMPUTER AT NIGHT When you go to bed at night and forget to shut down your computer, I think you ought to know what actually goes on. It's 2 A M and do you know...
Isn't that a quaint phrase? I don't think I'm an especially ignorant person. But I wasn't familiar with Council for National Policy until Jon Stewart brought it up on The Daily Show last night. I think it's unbelievably alarming that the...
We finally made time to take a few family pictures. The last picture taken of the three of us was the day that Gus was born...6 and 1/2 weeks ago! Gus is drawn to light of any kind, so we...
Chattanooga, TN — With the District 10 State Senate primary set for Thursday, October 4, the Brainerd Unity Group (BUG) announces a District 10 senate forum slated for Thursday, October 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. “We in Brainerd want our future...
The strong political opinions expressed in news outlets, such as those on the Chattanoogan website by two former chairpersons of our local Democratic party, are not the opinions of the current Hamilton County Democratic Party leadership~and should not be interpreted...
I am happy to announce I have started the priming on the front porch painting project. Remember the good times when we had no front porch or only half a front porch? Well, we have had a full front porch for...
Growing up, my family supported the Ford Motor Company by buying Ford cars. My dad is a Ford man (he remembers his family's first new car- a 1956 Robin's Egg Blue Ford, a 312 with a 2-barrel carburetor) and drives...
Having four of us gals, we inevitably have seen most restrooms in restaurants, shopping malls, etc.So the other day when we had to run into a store after a day of running lots of errands, I knew that it would...
"No talking with food in your mouth!" is the reminder that the girls hear from momma and daddy and of course each other over and over!The girls and I were eating lunch together today (sandwiches that Macy had made for...
This is a crazy week. In fact, this is a crazy month and the first of several. So many concerts and rehearsals and weddings- it's insane. A wedding every weekend, the missions conference at our church (for which we are...
Our friends over at In Advance have done another podcast. Not to steal anyone's thunder but Blitzen Trapper helped out when they were here a couple weeks ago. Listen to it HERE. Featuring music by- Patsy Cline Captain Beefheart Blitzen Trapper Neil Young Def Leppard Sonic...
This week, Mandy has not only noticed the toys dangling above her head, but seems to understand that when she hits them, they move. When I took this picture, I noticed that in the last 4 shots I've posted, she...
Neither of these stories are mine, but they both struck me as funny, so I'm sharing them anyway. The first comes when my step-daughter called me. She says, "I learned something this week." I said, "You did. What did you...
A man who just died is delivered to a Kentucky mortuary wearing an expensive, expertly tailored black suit. Bubba the mortician asks the deceased's wife how she would like the body dressed. He points out that the man does look...
"Call me Harold" is a famous political commercial aired during the Bob Corker/Harold Ford Jr. campaign. The Republican National Committee attempted to paint Harold Ford Jr. as liberal, as a person who had possesses no values, as a bachelor...
There are a few names out there that I absolutely cannot stand. For some reason, people continue to persist in giveing their poor children these names. Some are old, some are relatively new, some are faddish, all are horrible names....
This Thursday Fuller and I are packing up and heading down to Auburn to visit with my grandmother for a bit. Then Friday afternoon my inlaws will pick us up and take us to spend the rest of the weekend...
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