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Saturday was exciting and exhausting.  Daryl's injury kept him from sleeping soundly, but as the boys start their second day in the woods, their energy is high.    It hasn't occurred to them that they are lost.        

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See through the eyes of the young and innocent: faced with challenges they had not imagined, hardship and adventure in which they triumphed and failed, pain they suffered and evil they were to confront.  An American tale of young boys during World War II living in Vancouver, Washington.

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A Winter Visit To TEXAS in February;  what a great idea.   So, what could possibly go wrong?

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It's New Year's Eve at the Gas & Grill.  A terrible snowstorm is bearing down on the area.  The lights go out all over town.  A desperate man stumbles in the door ...

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Our town is decorated and everyone is getting ready for Christmas.
  What happens when the kids have a great idea and want to surprise the whole town?    
  It's going to take hard work but they can do it. 

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In our town, news travels fast.  There is a newspaper in the nearby town of Bloomfield, but it only comes out once a week and most times is way behind the news.  Besides that, it hardly ever tells the whole story.  This week's letter to Brett fills in some of the gaps; the wreck, the fire, the Pavillion, and more.

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Back in The Day learning to drive horses was a challenge, still is for Amish today.  The challenge we reached for were mechanical marvels; an old Oliver tractor, a 32 Ford truck.  The story of how I learned to drive the truck is part of family history.

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Not much going on this week till the Department of Transportation showed up to do a project on Main street.    We were on TV waving and shouting encouragement.   We're OK.  The firemen have left.

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Story Time at the park is a regular event.  We read stories, the children make up plays based on the story, then present them on the stage.  Today's story was interrupted by Alafair, a visitor in town.  He has a story to tell.

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MAGGIE the CAT.  If you missed this story - it's back again.  It is the most popular of all the short stories on the NO JUNK MAIL podcast.

Maggie the cat; what can I say.   Cats are a special thing in our town, especially Maggie who was never domesticated but decided to become part of our family anyway.    Her adventure -- going to the vets, is one of the stories of our town narrated in NO JUNK MAIL.