Author: aencoker

  • Monday Musings: Back from Scampin’! And two dreams realized. . .

    They say when you stop dreaming you stop living.  I can’t imagine not having a dream, not having some kind of goal ahead of me.  God help me if I get to the point where I can’t dream.  This past week I realized two long-held dreams of mine, or maybe even more! Dream 1:  My…

  • Wise Wednesday: E-conundrum solved! (Thanks, Matt!)

    Today’s electronics are wonderful. I mean, who would have thought when the TV series “Star Trek” aired back in the 60’s that we would actually be using those very gadgets in real life only about 50 years later?   I remember watching “Star Trek” reruns after school, dreaming about a “communicator” that worked like a…

  • PreFall Friday: Rainy Day Thrifting

    It’s raining!  It seems like forever since it has just rained and rained without storms, high winds, damage.  My former student Doc Deason, who is now a weather forecaster for a local television station, came in to the flag shop this week.  It was good to see him, but naturally I had to mention that…

  • Thrifty Thursday: More about our Scamp weekend. . .

    I just realized that I posted about our Scampventure on Wednesday but titled it Scamp Tales Tuesday.  I could say I just want to keep you on your toes, but you know better… Anyway, I promised you yesterday that I would share a bit about what we did once we made it to our destination…

  • Scamp Tales Tuesday: We survived to tell about our Scampventure!

    After three years of fixing, waiting, and more fixing, hubby and I finally got to test Scampin’ Annie on a real honest-to-goodness camping trip.  This is the first photo we have taken of her away from home turf!  Unfortunately, about 35 miles down the road, we noticed that we had already lost a part off…