Monday, April 20, 2026 It is once more Monday, and like all of the recent ones, it is a dry one. Our forecasts say some rain later in the week, but they said that last week but it was all frittered away before we got any. I would so love to sit under my carport watching it rain all day. We say the words about our concern for the farmers, and many pray daily asking God for rain for them and for us. But, you must be a farmer to understand the import (no, I did not mean to use t

Dear Lord, send rain. "Well my lands, it is good to see y'all, won't y'all get down and come in?" That of course was a holdover from the mule and wagon days, and hoss (daddy never said "horse") riding days when you literally had to get down, not out. I heard that often years ago or, we all did, actually. But I doubt anyone ever heard it from a Peebles. Peebles were too "cyurse" (curious) to want company, they only set on the front porch after dark so no one would stop to visi

Hello my friends, thank you for checking in on us, it is always great to see each of you here. I am getting excited about our upcoming GF&FL Fish Fry, and I sure hope you will join us there, if so I think you will be glad you did. Lee Webster and Joe Jeselnik are working to make sure it is a great event. Once more, let me give you the details. It will be held at Joe Jeselnik's venue 117 Dalton Drive, near Waynesboro, Burke County. It will be held from 11-2 Saturday, April 25t

It is Monday again! Wow, I know I sound like a broken record, but danged if these Mondays ain't coming so close together it is like a town so small that both city limit signs are on the same post! Okay, let me start: My youth was right there, right there where I left it, I was done with it, thinking I would never miss it. So many of those I loved, have gone on ahead, they were just here, seeming just while ago, it can't be, that must not be right. Behold, old things have pass