Thursday

Fleta gifted me a solar hummingbird light when she visited. It changes colors. It was made to stick in the ground but she zip tied it to my feeder pole. I’m enjoying it. Tomorrow we leave early on our trip. Hope I don’t drive everyone crazy.

Returned  my books to Pope County Library! My lucky day as I found the book about Mollie Brumley and how she survived the Civil War living on Richland Creek in Arkansas.

Mollie Brumley, a thirteen-year-old orphan, was living on a farm in the mountainous Ozarks of northwest Arkansas when the Civil War broke out. In a borderland region on the northern periphery of slavery and the western edge of white settlement, her corner of Arkansas saw terrible destruction—but not primarily from fighting between opposing armies. Mollie Brumley's Civil War was one of guerrilla warfare and outlawry, shifting loyalties, betrayals real and imagined, and, for some, death by starvation. In telling Mollie's story, drawing largely upon her 1902 autobiography, Theodore Catton offers a rare, intimate look at the heroism and desperation of war conducted on the home front—all amidst the anything-but-ordinary romantic adventures of an adolescent who lived during an extraordinary life!

Neighbor horses grooming each other across the fence!