Loose Leaf Notes

________Wordless Wednesday

A Puppet Show Preview  ____Shadow Shot Sunday

The Brick Factory is a mobile public art project that was created by my Asheville Potter Son Josh Copus and is currently taking place at the Old Marshall Jail in downtown Marshall NC.  Check times HERE. The idea is about building community.  Visitors stamp their words and stories on a brick, created from clay dug […]

This is how we celebrate Liam’s 7th birthday. Bryce made Liam an axe in Hopa’s woodshop and put a bow on it. He got all the Frog and Toad stories that Arnold Lobel ever wrote. And the CD! I think his favorite present was his little Simon, an electronic memory game.   I forgot to […]

I know that Smashing Pumpkins is the name of a band but it’s also a tradition in our family. It’s a “boys will be boys” (as my 9-year-old grandson Bryce says) fun way to dispose of rotting pumpkins that I grew. And there is more than one way to collect seeds for roasting. Bryce came […]

______________Wordless Wednesday

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Kings, portals, crowns and zombies. Aliens, quicksand, good guys and bad are all the elements of good story drama. He draws the scenes and dictates the action, and I write the words. Then we read “the book” to others. The tradition started back when I worked in day care in the ‘70s and I’ve been […]

_______Shadow Shot Sunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUA4k1WPKiE _________ Our World Tuesday

When we were kids one of our favorite activities was going to the duck pond to feed the ducks with our uncle or our grandfather.  While apple picking over the weekend, Joe and I and our grandsons fed the cows.  Not because we wanted to but because they followed us through the open field, sometimes […]

I call them “my little fishes.”  Liam said Bryce was a hog fish that eats pancakes.  Stinging jellyfish, lobster claws and octopus were regularly after Hopa Joe. Bryce floated on a pool noodle ship that Liam said looked like a tail.  Liam, who didn’t have his floaty vest, gauged his comfort in the water from […]