Pocahontas County Fare

Work on the new house has started again! We got our hemlock siding, and other things we need to finish the exterior last week, and Friday, ...

The past week has been a little confusing, weather-wise. Last weekend, we had some warm spring weather, and our daffodils put on a fine dis...

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers...." An Earth-Day inspired article, Waste Not, Want Not by Bill McKibben reminded ...

You never know what you'll run across on line; I found Pocahontas County musician Pam Lund playing banjo with fiddler Dave Bing on ...

One more Easter Postcard...to sooth my seasonal nostalgia for baby chicks.

There was a contest to make a Linux commercial to match the humorous "I'm a Mac" commercials Apple ran on television, which ...

Things have been a bit hectic here on Droop Mountain, but it's been a good kind of busy--that is, the kind that generates income. I'...

"Happy Be Your Easter Day," with bleeding-hearts. Addressed to "Miss Florance Williamson, Prescott, Iowa." The message ...

Easter Bunnies. Postmarked "St. Paul, MINN, March 20, 1913" and addressed to "Miss F. Williamson, Williamson, Adams County, ...

More seasonal cards from Florence Williamson's Souvenir Album. The message reads: "Thanks for the pretty postal. I should like to ...

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Most springs, the daffodils surprise me, but this year, I've been waiting for them. The potatoes in the kitchen are also anxious to g...

Non-native plants continue to lead the charge into spring. These lilac leaves may get frostbitten, but they've popped open their bud sc...

I've been dragging around the yard for the last month, looking for some hint of Spring from the plant kingdom, but the native plants ar...

The puppy is quoted as saying "Let's have another." The postcard's sender, "Agnes" (I think that would have bee...

Evidently snail mail did not always have better punctuation and sentence structure than we find in Internet-based communication. Des Moines...

This postcard may have seemed too fragile for the Post Office, or maybe someone bought it and never could decide what to say. This lets us ...

More cards from Florence Williamson's "Souvenir Postcards" album. The Top of the Mornin' To you, My Dear May the Good S...

State politics blog West Virginia Blue informed me last month that "Bill O'Reilly Hates You." Now, I already knew that Bill...

The Marcellus shale natural gas extraction business has made the news in West Virginia lately. One company has decided not to build a region...