Our house used to be a farmhouse. The fields around us were all a part of the property and the barn across the street was built by the same guy that built our house, John Brown. Along the way, it was sold off, and our parcel is only 5 acres, including the house, 2 garages,…
The daffodils and tulips have bloomed. The apple tree is flowering. The sun is shining (between the rain showers because it’s Ohio). That means it’s almost time to clean up the woodburner and “pack it up” until the Fall. Then I hear a flutter. And then our gray cat Tom comes to investigate…. That’s right,…
We had to say goodbye to one of our dogs this week. We knew the time was near. Apollo had been mentally declining for months. We knew when we went to West Virginia in March that it would be his last trip down. He was finding it more and more difficult to navigate the stairs,…