Sometimes you just need a place to go where everybody is an expert on something, and that place is the Watervalley Farmer’s Co-op. This is where you can catch up on all the local man-gossip, find out when it will be safe to plant your flowers, and get an authoritative prediction on which college team will win the national championship!
Well, Summer is winding down with the first day of Fall coming on September 22. All of August, everyone in Watervalley has been doing the can-can… not the dance, the vegetables. In the garden, the okra is going strong, the tomatoes are starting to play out, and the squash and zucchini are a memory. But […]
Honey, I’m Home. That’s right. This month down at the Watervalley Co-op we’re running a special on wooden honeybee hives. You can get the entire set up, including a queen bee at a greatly discounted price. Lester on the loading dock got one and has set it up as his place. Lester hasn’t had much […]
Co-Op Gardening Tip for June Mildred Tomlin came in this past week with a big problem. It was her hydrangeas. Mildred had followed our advice from last month and put sulphur powder around her hydrangeas to make her soil more acidic. But in the last week, many of the leaves on her plants were turning […]
Getting Your pHD It’s time to play in the dirt again! So, this month’s tip is about soil pH. We took a survey of the boys down here at the Co-Op to see who knew what the actual letters pH stood for. The answers included potential harvest, pasture health, and plant habitat. Lester on the […]
The fourth book in the Watervalley Book series! After a turbulent eighteen months, Luke Bradford is finally at peace with his new life as the sole physician in rural Watervalley. [...]
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“The Splendor of Ordinary Days” Is #1 Best Seller
The Splendor of Ordinary Days makes it to #1 on The Tennessean Best Seller List! On October 18th, the BookMan BookWoman bookstore in Hillsboro Village hosted a standing-room only book signing and author event to celebrate the latest novel in the Watervalley Books series, and that week the The Splendor of Ordinary Days rose to #4 on the […]
Kindle Fire HD 6 Giveaway Complete
Congratulations to Amanda Morris for winning the The Splendor of Ordinary Days Kindle Fire HD 6 Giveaway! With more than 1800 entries, Amanda was randomly selected and will receive a Kindle Fire HD 6 and signed copies of all three novels in the Watervalley Series. Special thanks to everyone who participated in the contest and the blog […]
A Cat Tale (The latest news from Watervalley.)
It should be noted that in ancient Egypt, cats were worshiped as kings and queens. Apparently, they haven’t forgotten this.
Facts and Fiction: (I don’t just make this stuff up.)
In my late teens I remember driving a country road out of Water Valley, Tennessee (the real one) up to Franklin, Tennessee in the next county. For a Middle Tennessee backroad, it bordered on bizarre. Around here we have rolling hills and ridges. Old backroads are rambling affairs; typically following the point of least resistance […]
