Still Woods Farmhouse

Yes, you read correctly!  The Mississippi Gulf Coast is preparing for sleet, another couple of days of icy roads, and SNOW!!  I do know a thing or two about snow.  I spend some of my childhood in Rockland, Maine.  However, the MS Gulf Coast does not see snow too often.  Schools are closed for two days due to the icy road conditions.  Our Emergency Management System is prepared for hurricanes (and they do a fabulous job protecting the citizens of the MS Gulf Coast), but icy roads along with our and many bridges spanning bayous and waterways cause dangerous driving conditions.  As I am writing this, I am looking out the window into our woods.  The rain is gently falling and by this afternoon, it may be snow.  Woo Hoo! What a terrific time to do a little blog writing! WARNING:  I am going to confess to a blog crime.  Or at least by some bloggers, it is considered a crime.  I am going to cut and copy from a previous blog post I w...

Have you ever heard of the Shoe Fairy?  If you love shoes as much as I do, you would probably love to have a Shoe Fairy.  When I worked as a counselor at a school, I was lucky to have my own Shoe Fairy.  Really!!  One day, I came into work and found a shoebox with a brand new pair of shoes in my mailbox.  After doing a little investigation (by the way- counselors are good at that), I found out that one of the teachers had given them to me.  She couldn't wear the pair and knew that my foot was the same size.  Over the years, the Shoe Fairy would strike numerous times, leaving almost new shoes in my box.   Margaret, whom I began to call the Shoe Fairy, might wear the shoes once or twice and decide they didn't fit her as well as she would have liked.  She obviously did not like clutter in her closet because she got rid of the shoes fairly quickly.  Wish I could say that about my closet! After several years, I took a position at the schoo...