Today's News

Rotary Club to host wine festival
The Lawrenceburg Rotary Club will hold its annual wine fest at Lovers Leap Winery on Aug. 25 from 6-11 p.m.
Music will be provided by Conch Republic Band. There will also be a silent auction.
All proceeds will provide for various programs for children in the community including backpacks, Shop With a Cop and dictionaries for all third graders in Lawrenceburg schools, according to the press release.

Historical Society to meet Aug. 23

You’ve heard the saying of dipping your toes in the water? I think Mother Nature is doing that for us.
We’ve had several chilly mornings in the upper 40s here on the farm and that’s enough to get us thinking of fall. Officially, it’s one month away. Time to get moving.
I have several friends who think of me as a “pioneer woman.”
I’m not. Just because I preserve what I grow, take my meat off the farm and heat with a wood stove, doesn’t mean I don’t spoil myself with the luxuries of the modern world.

Right before checking into an insane asylum, I hit the open road.  
Some people meditate. Contort themselves into yoga pretzels and sailors’ knots in an effort to relieve stress.
I drive.
Sanity, for me, is found in the silence behind the steering wheel.
Both my hands grip the wheel at 10 and 2, freeing my mind to wander into the dark corners of things I don’t want to and need to think about.

My dogs are city slickers.
There, as painful as it is to admit, I’ve said it.
Me? Uh-uh. No way. I’m not a city slicker and, despite some recent unsettling realizations to the contrary, I can prove it.
It became obvious that my dogs had succumbed to city life when I visited a local farm during my never-ending quest to find the perfect place to hunt deer. (Fact: City slickers don’t hunt, although some of the posers will occasionally wear camouflage.)