Akin family

About those potatoes.... Do you remember the potato harvest from last fall?  We had several buckets full of three different varieties. ...

Mother and I had a bunch of adventures all rolled into one trip this past week.  There were the unexpected side trips and delays, and the tr...

Mother and I are feeling rather like Hobbits right now.  You know, An Unexpected Journey kind of a feeling.  After a week of cold, snowy we...

Please keep Mother and I in your prayers as you think of it today.  We are in Vermont where we have been visiting my Aunt.  We were supposed...

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you are having a good week this week.  I'm getting excited at the thought of Easter being almost here. Thank ...

Poor Jack! Let me begin by assuring you that Jack is physically fine.  He is whole without cracks, dents, or dings.  Jack has not even ...

Here we are in Vermont. We left South Carolina on what we thought was a cool morning.  Yesterday the high in Glover, Vermont was 16.  That...

I really ought to post a video of someone singing, " On the Road Again..." .  Mother and I are on the train, somewhere in North ...

Spring. This is Mr. Marvelous' favorite time of year.  Despite battling a recurring sinusitis, he can not keep himself out of the gard...

Good morning, Prayer Warriors!  Here are a few things for us to be remembering over this next week. Vicky's adult son is in kidney fai...

Jack and I have both been a little busy the past week or so.  We are about to get a whole lot more busy.  Do you remember my Big Walk-About ...

This is Gracie. She may look like a cat, but she behaves more like a puppy. Well, most of the time, anyway.  She's a little...

Alabama has had an interesting couple of weeks weather-wise.  Last week parts of the state had an unprecedented 13 inches of snow.  Today, m...