By Nellie Curtiss … After the blizzard of December 2023, the skies rested with clouds just floating over the San Juan’s and Sangre de Cristo’s. A home health provider from the county’s options for long term care drove cautiously down the rural road, just off the state highway. The gravel was sometimes visible beneath theContinue reading “Turning onto the highway, she sang O Holy Night”
Category Archives: Holidays
Smiles are the best for customers to feel at home
By Nellie Curtiss …. One of the best smiles this week was on Thursday. My dog Schroeder was styled at All Four Paws Grooming which is a stone’s throw away from the Valley Courier. Andie fetched him even before I parked. She clicked his leash on and let me know when to return for him.Continue reading “Smiles are the best for customers to feel at home”
A grateful life is a kind life
By Nellie Curtiss …. As a senior citizen, I still shake my head at prices for gasoline, toilet paper, roofing jobs and school supply costs. How can it be? Nevertheless, the cost of living is a ne’er-do-well in my mind and makes the comfort of Thanksgiving hard to grab or stab it with a fork.Continue reading “A grateful life is a kind life”
Cats offer heartfelt acts and random purrs
By Nellie Curtiss … February is Black History Month; and it is American Heart Month, too. Of course, we all know February for Valentine and President’s Day. The edgy TV commercials keep us informed of those events. Plus, pre-Superbowl ads keep us planted indoors in anticipation of the game. But for me, February is aContinue reading “Cats offer heartfelt acts and random purrs”
Of Christmas past from Rio Grande to Pleiku, Vietnam
By Nellie Curtiss … Christmas Eve 1967 in small town Texas, where water was a big deal, was markedly cold as temperature dropped to 36 degrees on the weather gauge. It was bittersweet though because the children’s stepdaddy stationed at Pleiku AFB, a US Air Force base in South Vietnam couldn’t get leave to comeContinue reading “Of Christmas past from Rio Grande to Pleiku, Vietnam”
Songs of joy and a Sangre de Cristo Christmas
By Nellie Curtiss … I turned on AMC and I heard songs like the Griswolds singing “Deck the Halls” in the station wagon before they were nearly run over by that semi-truck. The parents were hardly able to get their kiddos to sing along and thus play along with the family quality time. Later, CBSContinue reading “Songs of joy and a Sangre de Cristo Christmas”
Counting congregating crocodiles
By Nellie Curtiss … The moon bustled about the barren cottonwoods, but it was a full moon and could hardly hide in between the skinny trunk bark anymore. Its light reverberated across the street, onto the broken sidewalks, to the very tippy top of the metal bus barn and down onto the asphalt parking lot,Continue reading “Counting congregating crocodiles”
Did you shop ‘til you dropped?
By Nellie Curtiss … Did you shop until you dropped yesterday? Some of CBS News was dedicated to play-by-play deals with big box store shopping straits. I prefer hearing what the weather has going on as I tune to weather segments with flashy show-and-tell media. We’ve had serious cold snaps here in the Valley andContinue reading “Did you shop ‘til you dropped?”
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