At The Rainbow

Let's Pool Our Ignorance

  • (Wood)RootStock

    I understand, in my bones, more and more why winter is the time of planning your planting with seed and nursery catalogues. There just isn’t enough time to come up with, detail and plan the current year’s garden when spring is sprinting amuck directly ahead of you. So when, sometime after Easter, I decided a…

  • The Waiting is Over

    Well, the wait is over, Bob and Pat Buss. We weren’t disappointed in you when Jasini sent her e-mail to you, detailing her hurt, and asking for your empathy and understanding of your daughter’s pain. But we were disappointed in you when you responded, not acknowledging her pain, but by saying “Sorry you are disappointed…

  • Among The Very Young At Heart

    It hasn’t been an easy day here. Our 15-year-old dog is dying, and this looks to be his last night. He could barely get on 4 legs in the morning, and by now can hardly move any of his legs at all. The cancer is eating him away. All the family has seen him to…

  • Waiting waiting

    Waiting is one of the hardest things in relationships. Especially where hurt is involved After you have expressed your hurt to the other party, knowing they will feel hurt to hear what you said, you wait and wonder how they will respond: will they take their hurt and make it the center of conflict and…

  • 2023 – The Easter (pa) Raid

    Holidays, up until the last two or three years, have always been very special to me and my family: high holy days with the church, and days of connecting and celebrating with family. But recently it seems there has been an attack upon the holidays, to negate their uplifting and special status in the calendar…

  • The Lord is Risen!

    He Is Risen Indeed! This year I am showing our Easter Lily panorama here at At The Rainbow. They look a lot by Daffodils, don’t they?

  • The Rest of the Story (or at least more of it)

    Just under three months ago I wrote one of my most uncomplimentary blog posts about my neighbor, Charles Trnka. That post detailed one portion of what was then a neighborly discord that was had headed to the lawyers and could have headed to court. Which would have been a terrible shame, since the Trnka’s had…

  • They Earn it … there is no charity where government is concerned

    People talk about the dole and government largesse. They talk about all the charity that we do through government programs. Well I have news for you if you think the above thoughts: There is no charity where government is concerned. Everyone who gets anything from the government EARNS IT. That may be a shocking statement…

  • A quick nutrition note

    “Cashews and Craisins for breakfast.” “That is better than a Peanut Butter Cookie 2-pack from QT. It includes the basic three: protein fats and carbs.” ” But what about roughage? My basic three is Fats, Proteins and Roughage. That is why dairy covers it all: you have Fats and Protein, and you let the cow…

  • Come and See

    Oh sleeper awake, step out of the night, throw open the door and step into the light Come and See – Jon Mohr, David Huntsinger, Bonnie Huntsinger I have been wandering in a “I know not what” haze of unreality for I know not how long. Looking back it is hard to say when it…