Nana's grandbabies

Sweet things: Gabrielle, Morghan, Jack with Madeline and Joey in front

These five were all here the other evening, along with 2 other children. What a surge of energy children bring into a home! When they leave, it is tho all the air has been let out of the house -- like a balloon deflating . . . the quiet filtering into every corner of the house.

Changing direction

I set this blog up in August with one entry and then never got back to it again . . . until last evening when I thought I would make this a site about a new piece of property that I and Pappy just bought. It's 37 acres of Missouri timberland and we hope to build a house and retire there sometime soon. (We only hope that it will be soon but we will both have to work for a number of years yet unless we can win the lottery or so such other far flung thing occurs.) So, I added an entry and added the picture that you see below. Then after a "discussion" with Pappy, I moved the "Homestead" site to another location. So, this will remain a personal site for me, Nana. I hope that's it is not another five months before I see fit to post again.

Let's see if this works . . . here is a link to Shagbark III: http://mo-homestead.blogspot.com/

The guys exploring the lay of the land