by Elaine Thomas | Feb 10, 2020 | Saving Stories
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is sentimental about old valentines. Here are four sweet samples! 1. Denise Woodyard of La Grange, Texas, prizes the elaborate over-sized valentine her 19-year-old dad, Jack, sent his mother from Fort Knox, Kentucky, in 1944, years...
by Elaine Thomas | Oct 24, 2018 | Family, Saving Stories
“You don’t wash handmade braided rag rugs, you beat them,” I explained to my husband. Emil still turned up his nose at the once-handsome rug sticking out of the plastic sack on top of my luggage. “I don’t care,” he replied. “It’s filthy. It smells, and it’s not...
by Elaine Thomas | Oct 3, 2018 | Rural Life, Rural Texas
You, too, can have organic pest control with surround sound. “Just how long do guineas live?” asked my husband, Emil, as we watched Wilda the Widow slip by the south side of the house on her way to check the grasshopper-free perimeter. At six years of age, Wilda was...
