Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

 This is the track I travel to get down to the creek bottoms.  This, of course, is my view on the way UP out of the creek bottoms.  I am determined to get back to where I can walk up it without having to stop one or more times to catch my breath.   This is the track the dairy herd used to traverse twice a day in the summer, going to and from milking.  The grass stays greener and the temperatures cooler during the day down along the creek.  After two years the weeds and dead leaves are starting to encroach on the track and it looks different to me. I was here for 18 years of dairy farming, so in my mind I still see it broader, muddier and more gouged out by cow hooves.  I figure eventually the leaves and weeds will make more ground cover over the rocks and in a decade or two or three there will only be a narrow track, used by deer or turkeys and the occasional coyote. Sometimes I wonder about the paths I have made in life; not the physical paths, b...

 Here is a pic of my peeps.  Haha..  This is our ladies GLOW group from church.  GLOW officially stands for Godly Ladies of Worship, but various of our husbands have referred to it in other terms, one being God Loves Old Women.  In fact all ages are welcome.  Unfortunately our youngest member, at age 16, was at work at the Catfish Cafe.   As a general rule we meet monthly at the church where we have a devotion, do a craft or a project, then have lunch. This time one of the ladies hosted the group. Our Christmas meeting in December traditionally involves our secret pal reveal and a cookie exchange.  I forgot to get a picture of the cookies.  We did pretty well at bringing a variety of cookies, though there were 3 different kinds of sugar cookies, just decorated differently.   Also for this meeting we got an assembly line going to make cards and then make small gift bags for each of the residents of the nursing homes the youth gr...