Can you guess what this is?
I was up at Pine Forest today, doing some work at Mom’s with Josh and Debbie. Or, how about this angle? And, one more: Still stumped? Take a look at these then -Yeah, it’s a huge hornet’s nest that we discovered on the back of the garage. Yikes! Glad the hornets are gone now – [...]
Dootnie Speaks (10): The Things He used to Do
I was up at my Mom’s house at Pine Forest last weekend to do some work. Debbie and Lindsey and I took a power washer and spent the better part of the afternoon washing the house. She went to Crewe as we were finishing and brought back some pizza for us to eat. As we [...]
Pine Forest Nottoway – a tour, of sorts
I went out to Pine Forest yesterday to cut grass and fish a (very) little. I spent about four hours cutting grass and trimming around the pond, and maybe thirty minutes fishing. I’ve written about Pine Forest a lot, and I thought I would put together a post to show you what it looks like. [...]
Pine Forest Trip: Mom’s Birthday, and some fishing
We headed out to Pine Forest yesterday to celebrate my Mom’s birthday. Which one was it? You’ll have to ask her… We had dinner with her and my siblings John and Stacey, and their families – had some cake and ice cream, and did a little fishing. Mom serves up some cake and ice cream: [...]
Dootnie Speaks (8): Jacques Cousteau, move over
Dad told us lots of stories over the years about the things he did as a child. There was a page in Dad’s book that asked about a “clubhouse or hideaway” that they had as a child, and it asked him to describe it: Our hideout was the metal sided garage on the back of [...]
Sweet-Hot Pepper Relish: The Recipe
I posted earlier about going to Pine Forest to watch Mom make some of the great pepper relish she’s made for years. I didn’t have the recipe at hand when I was writing, but I found it in an old church recipe book that my Mom contributed to. It was published in 1997 as a [...]
Dootnie vs. Cancer: The show must go on…
Image by nimboo via Flickr Five days, thirteen hours, and six minutes. That’s how long it’s been (at the start of this writing, anyway) since my Dad passed from this place to a better one. Our faith in God gives us assurance that this is so. Our faith in God also assures us that he [...]
Save the blueberries!
Well, sort of. There aren’t actually any blueberries yet, but there will be. My Dad got some blueberry plants with the intention of growing them for the first time. He’s been doing gardens for as long as I can remember, but never planted blueberries. One of his brothers told him about growing them, so Dad [...]
