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Summer Days

May 19, 2021 By D'Ann Mateer

Summer is coming! And I’m so excited! Now, if you know me, you know this is, frankly, a miracle. I have never loved and longed for summer, as others seem to do. Why not, you ask? First, it’s hot here in Texas. And I don’t like to be hot. Or to sweat. Or to worry about sunburn on my extremely fair skin. Second, summer has always been about non-scheduled days. But the truth is that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Family, House and home Tagged With: Anne Mateer, summer

Friends making French Press coffee

May 18, 2021 By Tamera Alexander

If you saw Deb's blog post last week, you already know that she and Ken dropped by to see me and Joe on their grand adventure! And oh, what a sweet visit that was. Only problem...it was too quick! We had breakfast with them at their campsite one morning, then they spent the day with us on Mother's Day. Deb and I are both major coffee lovers! So when she mentioned she was going to make … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Friendship, House and home Tagged With: coffee, Tamera Alexander

Modern Day Time Portals

April 15, 2021 By Karen Witemeyer

I love stepping back in time. Through the pages of a book, the visual delight of a period movie or television series, looking at old pictures, digging into research, or even working on a craft that has been practiced for hundreds of years. There is something about the past that is just so romantic and enticing to me. It probably comes as no surprise, then, that when my daughter and I met up in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: History, House and home Tagged With: East Terrace, Historic Homes, Victorian Living

When Texas Freezes Over

February 18, 2021 By Karen Witemeyer

Where I live in West Texas, it's rare to get much snow. We had our second largest snow on record back in January, but February refused to be outdone. On Valentine's Day, Sunday, we received 14.3 inches of snow. That smashed the single day snowfall record for our town of Abilene, TX. The previous record had been a whopping 9.6 inches. The snow is beautiful. Such a rare sight is a treat to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: House and home, Nature Tagged With: Power Outage Creativity, Snow in Texas

Never Stop Learning

February 17, 2021 By D'Ann Mateer

My husband and I married just after he graduated from college—just before he started law school. While we were married, I finished my undergraduate degree. After he began working, we often harkened back to those days, lamenting that we couldn’t find a way to remain students forever while still making a living (because those mountain of student loans weren’t paying themselves off!). Both of us … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, History, House and home, Reading, Writing

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