It was nice growing up with someone like you
- someone to lean on, someone to count on...
someone to tell on!
~Author Unknown

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves.
For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
~Author Unknown

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

~Charles Dickens

The human spirit needs places where nature
has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
~Author Unknown

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you....
In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other;
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~Ruth Stout