Elaine's Blog

Your turn, Let’s hear your suggestions…By K. RossBefore we officially kick off spring events and outdoor fun, I want to do something a little different with today’s blog — I want to hear from you! Think of this as an interactive, crowd-sourced planning session where we all help each other out.Abo...

Sammy Hager...the catOne time, I was at Shoney’s (which closed about a year and a half ago) eating breakfast alone because I enjoy my own company. The waitress started talking to me, and we found out we had a lot in common—we both love cats.She told me she had adopted a feral cat, but she couldn’...

Who’s ready for the snow/ice storm??K. Ross I had a blog all set and ready to go for this week…and then winter decided to do what winter does best—change its mind. With the winter storm coming in this weekend, I figured it was the perfect time to switch things up a bit. At first, they were callin...

ATTIC DISCOVERY Once again, we’re in Ansonville, North Carolina. At the fable house that belong to Big Mama aka Flora Cox VonCannon.  She rented the front part out to Pa Porter and Grandma Porter aka George Allen and Elizabeth Porter also under the guise as Hawk. Not to be confused with the super...

Happy 2026…Let’s talk Resolutions…again! And just like that… the holidays are officially behind us and a brand-new year is right in front of us. There’s something about the start of a new year that feels refreshing, hopeful, and maybe just a little motivating. The decorations are packed away, rou...

Jingle, Jingle…Jingle Juice!! Well friends, here we are… one last blog to officially close out the holiday season. It always feels a little bittersweet, doesn’t it? The decorations slowly come down, the schedule starts to look a little more normal again, and we begin packing away all the traditio...

So now it is Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. So true at Grandma’s house, because if you got out of bed, the wrath of Grandma would crash down upon your head—and you knew Santa would not leave you anything.We always went down to Grandma’s in the ...

Ethel on Singing, Cooking, Tree Chopping and Love I once had a dear friend named Ethel. She has passed now. We worked together at Eastern State Hospital, and that’s where I first met my Ethel.We were both direct care psychiatric aides.Ethel could sing—Lord, could she sing. She sang like an angel....

“A New Holiday Tradition…”By K. Ross Now that Turkey day is over…How was your Thanksgiving?!  I hope it was full of good food, loud laughs, and little bit of leftover pie for breakfast! LOL. And for me…stretchy pants!   This is the true beginning of the holiday season. There is something about th...

Catastrophe on the Front Porch Would you like a Nana story?I don’t smoke. I have never smoked, not cigarettes not pot. I don’t vape none of that.I think that was because of the lesson my grandmother gave me.  That would be grandma Porter on my mother’s side.Mom and daddy went to town. They’re goi...