Beth Durham's Blog, page 4

Spring Starts

Springtime is a time of renewal and new life. (Perhaps that’s why God timed the Crucifixion and Resurrection of our Savior at this time of year!)  From a brown, dead landscape the earth bursts forward with greenery and blooms.  I recently drove to The Smoky Mountains and the change is so clear ...

Modern Victory Garden

If you’ve been with me the past few weeks, you know I’ve got my eye on the thermometer, my garden is turned and little tomatoes, broccoli, and cabbage plants are started.  Springtime, I’m ready and waiting.

Now, the president of the United States has announced that food shortages are “going t...

Mountain Winters

Since writing last week’s blog, we’ve had a snow.  It fell on the Easter flowers, but of course Easter isn’t for another 5 weeks – it’s a late Easter this year.  Then, the sun came out and warmed us up into the 70’s for a couple of days and today we’re back at 45 degrees.  Whew, wintering on...

Spring Fever

About this time of year, I begin to get Spring Fever.  I’m past enjoying white, fluffy snow and the swing of temperatures has me freezing when it’s in the 40’s despite weeks of teen-temps.  Perhaps most influential, the garden has been plowed. 

Those deep furrows beckon me.  Yet they are awfull...

What's Up with Their Hair?

You won’t often find me writing about fashion on account of my personal fashion choices are rarely in-step with the modern era.  However, I’m thrilled to discuss the subject from an historical perspective, and that’s just the topic a friend and I recently found ourselves on when looking at an o...

Checking In on Weather Predictions

Back on October 8th I wrote a little article here about the signs for winter and I thought we ought to look back and see how accurate we were.

As I write now, the ground is still white from the 7 inches of snow that fell Sunday (now 4 days ago) and it feels like 11° right now.  The actual temper...

Old Christmas

I trust you’ve all had a blessed Christmas!  This Christmas season seemed short to me – more so than what is normal these days as every month and season seem to pass in the blink of an eye!  I think because Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, and there were only 3 December Sundays, every church s...

Dime Stores and Dollar Stores

It’s 2021, shelves are sparsely stocked and prices are quickly rising.  And the last single-price store around has just announced their prices are rising too. Ah, for the days of the 5 & 10!

My children enjoy an Australian-produced kids show, The Inbestigators, whose kids often mention buying so...

Firewood Philosophizing

You won’t usually find me in a mall, especially among the largest crowds of the year, so I spent some of Black Friday 2021 cutting wood with my Daddy.  I’ve mentioned here before my affinity for a roaring fire and with propane nearly $3.00 per gallon, bringing home a little jag (as we call it around here) of firewood seems like a very worthwhile activity.

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Supply Chain Shortages from the Past

You don’t need me to tell you that the store shelves have great, blank spots on them where both necessities and luxuries have normally been found.  The media tells us there is a global supply chain crises, the reasons for which they have failed to explain to my satisfaction. 

As a rule I try no...