Part of the fifth grade class curriculum includes study of Colonial America and every year the students create a colonial village. Because of the connection with Bill and medicine, Walker chose the role of the apothecary. Last year several friends suggested we look carefully at the villages to get ideas for this year but alas, […]
Tonight at Scout Mass, we celebrated everyone who earned his Religious Emblem award. Deacon Tony presented each scout with his workbook, a patch, pin and prayer book. Despite their wiggles on the afternoon of the interview, they were all reverent in Mass. Mason hammed it up for a moment. From the looks of it, Mason […]
Well, the forecast was indeed correct. The snow came yesterday and started to fall heavily just as school was letting out. We knew another snow day was in the cards for the kids but we didn’t expect Bill’s clinic to be closed as well. Thankfully, we had plenty of fun projects from Christmas to pass […]
Shortly after we moved here, my friend, Jolene, introduced me to her friend, Iemei. Several years ago, Iemei moved to Mexico City for her husband’s work. She just returned about six months ago and recently reached out to me to see if I would be interested in meeting her for coffee. We talked about all […]
Every year the 4-H celebrates the accomplishments of the members from the clubs in our county at a special dinner. Usually the dinner takes place at the fairgrounds but this year there was a scheduling conflict and the dinner took place at a local middle school. The change of venue was more than welcome change […]