Doctor Andy by Johannah Bluedorn

Read What’s That Lurking in Your Homestead? by Lisa Barthuly in the Winter issue of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. The Barthuly family owns Homestead Originals, a home-based business which specializes in helping you make your house clean and aromatic.

Here’s my stash of goodies from the Barthulys

Ef the way a man lights out of this world
Helps fix his heft for the other sp’ere,
I reckon my old friend Golyer’s Ben
Will lay over lots of likelier men
For one thing he done down here.
You didn’t know Ben? He driv a stage
On the line they called the Old Sou’-west;
He wa’n’t the best man that [...]

Helena’s new hobby.

Keswick, England

Cold today here in New Boston. Piney in her blanket.