A Happy and Beautiful Wedding Quilt

A Happy and Beautiful Wedding Quilt

Every once in a while, I make a gift quilt that I love so much that it is hard to give away. (I usually tell the recipients that if they don’t like it, they can give it back, but, so far, no one has actually done that.) The quilt in the photo above is one of these...
Easy Chili for a Cold Day

Easy Chili for a Cold Day

By Jessica Knowlton This is an easy and delicious recipe for a cold day. You can use ground beef or half ground beef and half sausage. The sausage gives it a little more flavor. I love serving it with cornbread muffins or French bread slices. It’s a hit with my...
I Spy Quilt

I Spy Quilt

By Allison Sharp Have any of you ever played “I-Spy?” Before the age of electronic toys, I would play this game in the car with my children. “I spy with my little eye a … blue car.” The children would then look around until they saw the blue car, and the first one to...
Surgery on the Cow

Surgery on the Cow

By Richard Gappmayer Years ago bales of hay were secured with wire. Yes, metal wire. One of my father’s cows became sick and would not eat, so he called the veterinarian. The vet thought that the cow might have been poisoned by fragments of this hay baler wire....