Silver Valley Stories

This was written last January as one of our sibling writing assignments, where we wrote about how music helped us remember things in our liv...

You can’t be unhappy inside yourself without making others unhappy, too. - Ernest Pascal, Walter Lang

Give me a land of boughs in leaf, A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land." - A.E....

Assignment: Help Chaperone Group of Fifth Grade Students Destination: Silverwood Theme Park, Athol, Idaho Mission: To Make It Through the Da...

Here is my dog Peaches. She is a Keeshond. She is very good natured and seems to always have a smile. (Especially when there is cheese aroun...

A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. Proverbs 11:28

What a special Mother's Day. It began with attending church this morning, where PKR was the substitute worship leader, and it was fun s...

Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, 'Like mother, like daughter.' Ezekiel 16:44

This week my assignment for my siblings was to write a tribute to our mother for Mother's Day. We will share them with her on Mother...

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it. -Chinese Proverb

The poppy that my heart was, formed to bind all mortals, made to strike and gather hearts like flame upon an altar, fades and shrinks, a red...

This week's Sunday Scribbling's prompt is Second Chance. Special thanks to my daughter and her partner for the research they did on...

Well, I'm back from the District Track Meet held at Timberlake High School. The Kellogg Wildcats had a very good showing, including my ...

My brother-in-law Kent sent me another picture of a tree. Here is what he says about this particular tree: Here's my latest Tree pictur...

Trees come in many colors, shapes and sizes. And this one is no exception. When my father's childhood friend, Walt Gaby, sent me a pi...

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn’t perceive such things out...

Here is Z2 running the 400 at the track meet in Post Falls today at Post Falls Middle School. The KMS Track Team took it easy today at the ...

Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney) Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only w...

As sung by Cat Stevens lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon Morning has broken, like the first morning Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Prais...

In a general way, I took the challenge to be “tagged” by Katrina at Notes on a Napkin to participate in a meme . Here are the rules: Each pl...