This week’s treasure discovery in my southern living garage museum was a box of iron skillets. Cooks all over the world use them. But as...

When you find a library in your garage, obviously your family loves books. I’m talking boxes and boxes and boxes of books. Everything...

We discovered a dinosaur in my garage museum this week. A relic many have seen only in a museum. This mechanical contraption is called a...

Believe it or not, I had a visitor to my recently opened southern living history museum—aka my garage (see last week’s post)—and the trip...

Over the last few months I’ve cleaned out every drawer and closet in my house. For sure I took my own sweet time—like one drawer a...

On this hot and humid Southern-Fried Friday, I’m seeing orange—as in the orange blooms of butterfly weed dotting the open fields in the...

Do you love flowers but have zero green thumbs? No problem. The Knockout family of rose bushes was created just for you. Live in the...

Wishing you a wonderful summer filled with fun, sun, and flowers. Check out this little guy enjoying my False Indigo shrub....

Yippee, we picked our first homegrown tomato out of the garden last week. And I’m glad to report the flavor was worth the wait. Now I’m...

NEVER HAVE I EVER dreamed of grocery shopping being a tug of war. But I witnessed it last week, and the end result made recent toilet...

Where is the best place to bicycle? This summer my vote goes to the Cades Cove loop road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park....

In case you haven’t noticed by now, I like blooms. Flowers, shrubs, trees, vines—I’m not picky if it’s covered with flowers. So I’m...

If you live in the South and like flowers, this time of year is one of your favorites. Spring showers bring on summer blooms, and we’re...

Want to go way far south with me on this Southern-Fried Friday? I’m taking a trip to the wild and unpredictable Australia Outback by...

On this Southern-Fried Friday, here’s a shout out to my friend Cindy Sproles, a writer of stories dear to my heart. Her historical novels...

Good news, our porch bird babies flew the nest the other day—all four of them. Yes, we discovered a fourth fuzzball as they grew...

Happy Mother’s Day to all you special ladies who have changed diapers, cooked meals, bandaged cuts, run a taxi service for umpteen years,...

During last month’s stay-at-home-order, another family came to live with us. The parents were sneaky at first—hanging around several days...

I had another post for today until a local newspaper released the article, “The Smokies’ Synchronous Firefly Display is Officially...

Spring decorates where I live with blooms galore. Daffodils, forsythia, redbuds, dogwoods, and many more trees and plants cover the area...