1. Last Thursday Kim, who blogs at In My Words, wrote about a thrift shop that literally sells unclaimed baggage items HERE. 2. Another blogger wrote about finding a dyson vacuum at a thrift shop for $25 and said it was the best vacuum cleaner out there. I commented that I would try to remember […]
Over the weekend, I juggled an art show opening, a classical music concert and a get-down-to-it dance party at Dogtown. Hillbillyz, Chillbillyz? No, it’s ThrillBillyz and we had a rockin’ good time dancing to their music. I don’t really know what is happening here. Gettin’ down? I think this was when he found the winner […]
– The following photos first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 24, 2021. Dubbed as “The Better Late Than Never Birthday Party” after cancellations due to rainy weather, The Buffalo Mountain Brewery and McDaniels Tavern celebrated its 3rd year anniversary on Saturday. The celebration included a Keg Toss and a Tug of War competition. […]
I worry about running out of onions the way my dad worried about running out of flashlights and batteries and because he lived through The Great Depression he had a store in his A Street basement Now we hoard toilet paper and wear masks on planes We think every splinter could be a Lyme carrying […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 24, 2021. The weather was perfect for the first Floyd Small Town Summer, a series event hosted by the town at the Warren Lineberry Park. The Thursday evening event drew a large crowd. Families spread out blankets and children played in the grass on and […]
-The following first appeared in an expanded version in The Floyd Press on June 24, 2021. Local Preacher George Jones invited people up to the amphitheater stage to dance at Saturday’s Juneteenth Celebration, hosted by Floyd CARE (Community Action for Racial Equity) at the Warren Lineberry Park. “I want to see someone out here flatfoot […]
1. I call the below picture “the cap capture.” 2. I told my train conductor nephew David that he was a “trained train conductor” and he answered, “I’m getting my life on track.” 3. While at the Cascades Waterfall, my sisters and I found a button on the ground, which everyone in my family knows […]
I put my Massachusetts sisters to work collecting eggs right away. Love of dancing runs in our family. Floyd Small Town Summer with Music Road Company was a blast. I told my sistahs ‘this is how we live all the time in Floyd!” Besides the Small Town Summer dancing, Trish got a nice immersion of […]
They say you have to find your voice like they ask ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ But you don’t know where to look or know that you have the voice you were born with You sit on the phone with a boy you like and time stops still while no […]
1. Fiddling around Memorial Day weekend in Floyd. 2. Plum is yum / and cherry is cheery / But what part of berry is raspy? / Bananas can be split / or cause you to slip / Apples remind me of fall / I figure a fig is easier to figure / than three meanings […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 10, 2021. Mill owners Adam and Marcie Morrison purchased the historic Epperly Mill in a 2016 fire and flood sale, but it wasn’t the sale that sealed the deal. The previous owner’s son-in-law, Bill Eberhardt, offered to help with renovations that would transform the site […]
Could she scare a crow? How long will she stand immovable? Will she come to life in a gold rush summer protect the corn as if it was her children? Will she change her shirt come out of the rain? Will she lobby for a bigger pole to be hoisted on? Will she eavesdrop on […]
