Author: aencoker

  • THRIFTY HUNT THURSDAY: Tomorrow’s the day!

    My front porch tonight! My Escape ready to escape! Don’t you love my giraffe print throw protecting the back of the folded down seat? What is all this junk, you ask?  It’s just a fraction of the stuff that hubby and I will be hauling in my car and in my dad’s truck to my…

  • FOLK MAGAZINE’S 2013 JOURNAL CHALLENGE: Week 5

    This week Folk Magazine‘s Journal Challenge is to answer the following question:  In the near future, what are you looking forward to the most?   Oh my gosh, that is so easy this week!  I can’t wait to move into my booth at Uniques & Antiques on February 1!  I have been preparing for weeks,…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: That question!

    I almost titled this post “That favorite question,” but I was afraid the sarcasm might be lost in the translation, so to speak.  I loved teaching but there was one question that got my hackles up, rubbed me the wrong way, set my teeth on edge, and fried my banana peel.  I bet it is…

  • AT HOME MONDAY: Back to the Scamp!

    Remember this little guy (gal)?  I posted about over a year ago?  Or was it two years?  My husband and I fully intended to restore this little doll and use her at our deer hunting site.  (I can’t call it a deer lease because we don’t actually lease the land. . .it belongs to my…

  • RANDOM FRIDAY: American Pickers, East Texas Style!

    What’s going on here?  What are these people doing?  Welcome to our version of “American Pickers.”  That is my dad and hubby picking their way through the piles of junk in the back of Dad’s property.  This unique collection of old golf course equipment, home appliances, farm equipment, car, motorcycle, and bicycle parts, etc. began…