Ever had a critter in your house? Not talking about bugs! You’ve read of my raccoon party…. Guess the first critter in the house was when I was a child. My daddy brought a new born calf home to the living room to warm up. The calf’s mother had birthed in the creek on an…

So fallish this morning, the second day of fall. Penelope was so frisky in the cool morning air, she drug me all over Guy Street on her morning walk. Can’t sit on the porch because the roofers are busy as bees tearing 102 years of layers of shingles and slate off the roof. Can’t even…

Anybody got a lap dog that rules the roost? I do…Penelope Grace Saunders. Eighteen pounds of dachshund resting on chihuahua legs. Always said I’d never have a dog whose toenails clicked on the floor but now I do. Every time she goes to my brother’s vet office I ask him to cut her toenails. I’m…

I went to Wedowee this morning to get my license plate yearly sticker and decided to buy an Alabama Audubon bird tag. It’s so pretty. Has a hawk on one side and says Save Our Birds across the bottom. My sister-in-law Debbie was tagging along. When she got here she said she’d drive so I…

I always wondered how I ended up in the world of day care. You love children, they said; you’ll love working there, they said. Worked ten years in day care and that is WORK. Most unappreciated, under paid job I’ve ever done. School teachers work the same grueling days and they are unappreciated, and underpaid,…

Went shopping with my youngest sister-in-law yesterday. Our first stop was at Wares Jewelry where I had to have my wedding rings cut off. I had shut the door of a camper my hand Sunday and the rings took the brunt of the blow. The diamond was knocked out of my mother’s engagement ring. My…