Akin family

My friend Rixie is an amazing woman.  Her thankful challenge this year (expressing thankfulness for the hard things) has challenged me.  Be...

Jack has been settling in and getting used to his new home over the past couple of weeks. On days when I go to town, he keeps an eye on th...

This week I will be telling and showing what we found at the Christmas Village Exhibit in Birmingham last week.  This is one of my favorit...

Nancy and I have a tradition of going to Birmingham's Christmas Village .  We have gone since before I moved here.  We have done this wi...

The garden is almost done for the year.  There are a just a few tomatoes left on the vines in the back.    Mr. Marvelous put the...

October was a good month for walking.  My total for the month was one hundred twenty-seven and 4 one-hundredths miles, or 127.04.  That...

Jack had a lot of adventures in South Carolina before coming to Alabama. He did not know that the humans were protected by the urRu/Myst...

My friend Rixie over at The Life and Times of Rixie the 4th started a wonderful tradition a few Novembers ago of Random Thankfulness.  She ...

It's that time of year again.   I know you have been waiting all year for this day, so without any further ado, here it is.  Turn on y...

Our home is in the country.  Just ask the city folks who know us!  We live on a 3.5 acre wooded, hilly lot on a private road (which means th...