∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Ahoy dear friends of the Fellowship of the Blog, It’s the Fellowship of the Blog Ship!  I’m pulling alongside with warmest greetings and a ship-load of thanks for your friendly visits and welcome comments. Looking at Bobby Shaftoe’s rhyme puts me in mind of the first time I left Liverpool, England, for America.  I [...]

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Hello to all you good friends of the Fellowship of the Blog, But it’s “Goodbye” to my particular “three bags full” of “stuff” saved for years because “We might need this stuff someday!”  Well…now those bags are off to the Salvation Army to help those in need. Baa, Baa Black Sheep’s three bags full [...]

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Hello once again dear friends of the Fellowship of the Blog, As I look out of the window of my “Blog room” here at home, an exciting message greets my eyes – a profusion of white blossoms have burst forth saying: “Blackberries are coming!”  They also speak of the gentle hand of my beloved [...]

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Hello my friends of the Fellowship of the Blog, First of all, knowing that one of our commentors, Sarah Grace, has a mother who is an accomplished Colorado sculptor, I appreciate Sarah’s interesting tidbit on Rodin’s sculpting (see comment section).  Many thanks, also, to the many new friends who bless me with the privilege [...]

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Greetings dear friends of the Fellowship of the Blog, “We’re going to the Fair!”  Once a year these happy words ride along State and County highways in cars, trucks, and trailers, all filled with pickles, pies, plants, quilts, pigs, sheep, and bulls – covering the whole range of the American homeland homemaking and livestock [...]