Wild Birds Fast Food and Fly Through, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Wild Birds Fast Food and Fly Through
By Beverly Hicks Burch
Shortly after we met I introduced Tall and Handsome to bird watching and bird feeding. Since he’s indisputably dotty about animals, it didn’t take him long to get “hooked on bird feeding”. And when he gets hooked on something, he does like to jump in with [...]

The BamaSteelMagnolia(TM) Diaries – Chapter 1: Cupcake…or Happy Birthday to Me…, by Beverly Hicks Burch

The BamaSteelMagnolia™ Diaries – Chapter 1
Cupcake…or Happy Birthday to Me…
By Beverly Hicks Burch
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On an early January morning, I entered this world as the first born daughter of a young East Tennessee couple. I had been, at first, what Momma thought was a bad [...]

Spring Sprung…and Summer Has Come, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Spring Sprung…and Summer Has Come…
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Well, it happened…spring sprung and left us. The unrelenting heat of summer is bearing down upon us. This is my least favorite time of the year. I know there are those of you who thrive on the heat…God bless your souls…but, I am not one.

We’ve already had [...]

Heirloom, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Heirloom
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Over at Helium.com I wrote an article about collecting cookbooks. Of course, as many of you know Tall & Handsome and I enjoy cooking and collecting cookbooks. We both have our own individual cookbooks, and then ones we have gotten together since we’ve been married.

In the Helium article I mentioned [...]

Encounters…a Little Further South, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Encounters…a Little Further South
By Beverly Hicks Burch

For any new readers, let me refresh the scene a bit. Last year I had a spat of “encounters” with critters…beasties if you will.

There was Mr. Chicken Hung Phooey…or as we fondly called him “Dead Chicken Walking”. He had a companion and together they brought us hours of [...]

Strange Bedfellows, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Strange Bedfellows
By Beverly Hicks Burch

There is one thing to say about being confined to a two story house with a bazillion packed moving boxes while you feel like your body is slowly but surely destructing one cell at a time…you have plenty of time to observe a thing or two.

Take for instance the two [...]

His, Mine & Ours – Part 1, by Beverly Hicks Burch

His, Mine & Ours – Part 1
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Here’s a picture of a little bit of the fruit of my labor of the last few days.

This is a bookcase I’ve decided to use in the kitchen to house cookbooks…his, mine and ours. Yes, you read it right. Tall & Handsome had his [...]

Overload, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Overload
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Recipe for physical, mental and emotional overload:

Mix, stir, agitate blend and beat the following ingredients…like a dead horse…

3 months husband living and working out of state
3 months going back and forth between two states personally
1 fall in a dark back yard resulting in busted knee
1 handful of weeks of house hunting
Sell [...]

Encounters, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Encounters
By Beverly Hicks Burch

I am a suburbanite. I am a child of the burbs. So, what the heck is it with me and critters lately?! Mind you, I’m not talking about your run of the mill, mediocre, pedestrian house pets. Oh, no…

Don’t get me wrong. I dig animals…most of them at least. I wouldn’t [...]

Wax On, Wax Off, by Beverly Hicks Burch

I Own Everything because I’m too Sexy for my Fur…I’m the Big Orange Abomination…Kramer the Cat…Mee-0w…