By the time you read this, it will be May Day. We will have had our April showers, and I will be thinking about what and how and when to plant my garden. Watching the rain fall outside the window, I have alternately thought about the gloomy children in The Cat in the Hat andContinue reading “April Showers”
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The Beauty of Advent
Growing Popcorn
Listen HERE It takes 100 days for popcorn to grow. I planted the seeds in May. I watched the stalks grow throughout June and July. By August 25th, the yellow ears were ready to harvest. My kids helped me take the kernels off about fifty of the cobs, and I couldn’t wait to fry themContinue reading “Growing Popcorn”
He Came Down
The distressed peeping from the pigpen was not a piglet. As I leaned in closer to look, I saw a speck of movement in the mud. It was a fuzzy yellow pheasant chick. My son jumped in the mud, reached down, and took hold of the struggling baby. He handed it to me. It wasContinue reading “He Came Down”
Sarah Dixon Young 