Akin family

The house is a wreck.  So am I.  Therefore, no pictures today.  You wouldn't want to see them anyway; trust me on this one.  OK, maybe t...

Estimating the amount of time needed to complete a task is my biggest weaknesses.  I should have known.  Was I really going to get that blan...

Five days to go to the By Hand Boutique Craft Show .  Am I stressed?  You betcha! It's been pretty busy getting inventory ready.  In t...

I did take a couple of pictures in October when I was not on the road.  If I ever find them, I will be sure to post them! Now back t...

Extra points to anyone who gets the quote! First of all I need to catch up on totals.  It's tricky.  The pedometer fell off several ti...

When I was young, our family had a Siberian Husky.  One peculiarity that we noticed about this dog was the way she would communicate that he...

Oh help! I realized that today would be November 1.  I've been thinking about it and thinking about all that November brings with it. ...

It's that time again for my annual, traditional posting of the Reformation Polka. This year I was going to post the actual Youtube vid...

We got ready to leave on Tuesday evening, October 8.  We packed our bags and loaded everything except the essentials into the car b...

What do you get when you combine very, very long hair   (with horrible split ends), a short barber chair, and a barber ...

Mr. Marvelous and I have been thinking and talking about community lately. I don't know if it is just the season of life that we are i...

Thank you so much for taking time to read my Cousins post the other day.  Thank you even more to those of you who stopped and took a moment...

Important Disclaimer.  There are a lot of links on this page.  They are not there because anyone asked me to put them there , or gave me any...

Wow.  Two weeks and 3168.4 miles later (give or take), I am home again.  Since I did not walk those miles, I am not counting them in my ...

It's Thursday again.  A week ago I was getting the last minute details taken care of and getting ready (or "fixin' to") ge...

Do you remember The Wizard of Oz?  Do you remember that before Dorothy started following the Yellow Brick Road she was picked up by a tornad...