My Newest Hero

Thanks Linda for your passionate and honest message. I will pick a winner for the Frank Schaeffer book tonite. Tweet

I was introduced to the writing of Frank Schaeffer via his book Crazy For God several years ago. I loved the book and wrote about it here. On that post, a reader left a comment asking me if I had read any of Schaeffer’s fiction books. I had not and I tucked that comment away in my brain in hopes that someday it would resurface at just the exactly right moment when I was in need of a new book [...]

A Holiday Make-Over for the Library

We hosted Thanksgiving this year. Twenty-seven of my husband’s closest relatives stayed at our house for four days. We went hiking and played board games and watched ballgames and went to the movies and The Oracle Known as Steve staged a coup and tried to take over my kitchen, but I bravely fended him off with a carving knife, a rusty old egg beater and a very pokey meat thermometer. And yet, even as he bled out from oozing puncture [...]

Random Weekend Photos

Because the Christmas tree photo was getting a wee bit tiresome.

Review of Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ”, with Boffo Giveaway Included

With mincing alacrity, Dear Charles takes on Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ” and startling questions arise!!!

Weeds in Wheelbarrow

July 28th, 2010

I gotta barrow, gotta barrow full of sunshine…

Sorry.

It was really late when I wrote that caption.

Comments

bdaiss:

I’ll trade ya! I like your weeds much better than mine. I’ve pulled about 4 barrow’s worth of thistle. And I have the scars on my arms to prove it. Your weeds are pretty…and non-lethal.
Martha in Kansas:

I should send you the photo of beans in a barrow. A couple years back the beans on a catalpa tree got so heavy that a branch was nearly on the ground in the drive at the farm. I took scissors to it and cut off all the bean pods I could. It was an impressive mess of them, crammed into a wagon.
Lynn in WI:

Mint?
- Rechelle:
  
  Catmint. You are good Lynn.
  - Lynn in WI:
    
    When I see folks buying more than one container of catmint, (it’s a popular perennial border filler up here), I feel the need to tell them one is plenty. They never believe me.
Kait:

That’s awful purdy.
Sara:

I don’t know–if my weeds were that pretty, I might just leave them. But that’s just lazy ol’ me talking…