Dog vs. Cat Smack Down
Who will win this round? Molly, our 80 pound, yellow Labrador Retriever on the home team? Or, Peanut, an 8 pound visiting feline? Slow introductions of new animals are a…
Category: humor
Slice of Life Story Challenge 2021: Four Years Later & Blog Post 1,320
Today, is my one thousandth, three hundredth, and twentieth blog post! That’s right I’ve made 1,320 posts to The Apples In My Orchard! It all started just before the Slice…
Slice of Life Tuesday: A Good Sport on the Trail
Last week, after a lengthy Slice, I promised myself that for the month of March and the Slice of Life Story Challenge, I would write posts that are more brief.…
Self Care During this Long Pandemic
This morning I got a hair cut. Luckily, my stylist owns her salon and she only takes one appointment at a time. Aside from a few months at the start…
Compartmentalizing or Bullet Journaling: Which will win? One, both or neither?
For Christmas, I asked for and received a bullet journal. I am already a highly organized person, but there are some tasks that continue to escape me. One is publishing…
Poetry Friday: Tom Turkey
Tom Turkey said, gobble, gobble as he took a small wobble towards the shiny fence that cost more than a few pence. A young child approached sure the perimeter could…
Slice of Life: Snowing, Shipping, Shopping, and Sewing
This week is cruising along! Today, again, I’ve gotten so much accomplished. A trip to the post office was needed to mail out both jewelry and masks to buyers. I’ve…
Poetry Friday: Celebrating Jack Prelutsky
Today, on Poetry Friday, I want to celebrate the poet Jack Prelutsky. I own several of his holiday poem books, gifted to me by my mom who used them for…
