FROM THE INN ON THE HILL

What would life be like without friends? Seriously - I would not want to live that life. There is a saying of old--"That if you want a friend, you have to be a friend". While that is very well the truth, I would like to explore, examine and evaluate---what that statement really implies.     Well, at least as I see it thru the grid of my life's experience. Growing up living in the country, on a dead-end road--actually our home was the last house on that particular road. The other homes being approximately 1/2 mile away. There were perhaps 6 other homes on this country road, and at the "4 corners" this road from the east met roads from west,north and south.....AND THEY BE DIRT ROADS AT THAT!!! There, where the east road intersected the southern road --- was a church. A large old white church, and a rather common one at that. It was the center of this small rural community.     Common to this community-- were the many activities found throughout ...

You might start to realize that 'detour' is my middle name....if you haven't then follow along for a while and you will soon have to agree . This curve in the road will be a fun light hearted one, well deserved after the seriousness of the previous one. So sit back, get your apron out---what you don't know what that is? Then you are much tooooo young to be reading my blog. Over a decade ago a friend gave me an antique cook book ( guess we know what she thought of me)...might I add I could have been her baby-sitter. The copyright of this collection of recipes was in fact dated a special year- -the year before my birthday.......nope, not giving that info out--not yet--- I'll give a hint...it was 19??....good luck figuring it out. I just- a few weeks ago took this book down from it's resting place above the kitchen cabinets---doing what all the other items there are doing in unison--catching dust. After successfully removing "close to a decade" worth ...