By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I feel blessed to have the friends I have made since I went to work here at the Advocate. I am not originally from Tucker County but it has become my second home. I spend a third of my life here at work and...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Things are getting really close to home when you hear of giant, giant, giant drug busts just a stone’s throw away. About 50 miles from my home was a drug bust involving three people and all of them were over the age of 55. ...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate What if… those are two very powerful words. You could ask questions with those two words until the cows come home and never get an answer. Just take a minute and think about it, every question you could ever think of would have...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I met two wonderful ladies this week at a yard sale and we could have talked for hours. They want to start refinishing furniture but a little intimated I think. I love refinishing pieces and just letting the imagination loose. Momma Said, “Don’t be...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Well summer is almost over and again this year we have had way too much rain. I wish we could ship it to California and put out some of their fires. Spring was wet and everyone was late getting started on cutting hay and...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The lottery has advanced to 1.1 billion dollars as of the date that I write this article. I could not imagine what a person would do with that much money. I know the government would take their cut off the top but that is...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Have you ever heard the saying, “you can’t fix stupid?” Well that has to be the truest statement made by mankind. I have not traveled a lot and I can’t say I know a lot of people, but in my years on this old...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I never thought I would live to see the day when I would say that I am happy to see gas prices drop to $4.64. What really makes me mad is to see the quarterly profit margins for the big gas companies. I get...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Here in Parsons we have an area known as The Pulp Mill Bottom. It has been undergoing some renovations to turn it into a park area. There is a pond that has become the home of a flock of Canadian Geese. Among this flock...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The definition of deliberate is, done consciously and intentionally, “a deliberate attempt to provoke conflict.” How can that word be misunderstood? I have been following all the fires that have been happening to food distribution centers all over the USA and Canada. When you...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I passed a garden plot the other day that had a potato patch to die for, it was beautiful. Yes you should know by now that I am a little out there in left field. Things like that bring back so many memories that...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Oops, I’ve done it again. I went through the trials and tribulation of Amber/AKA/ Mud Puppy and the antics of Gracie now I have a new puppy. Her name is Ripley Brooke and she is a black German Shepherd. Amber is an English Shepherd...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I know the world is coming to an end when a 10 year old child is arrested for texting of a school shooting. This is insane to think a child of this age sits around and thinks of such things. Where are his parents...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate My heart goes out to the folks in Texas after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The senseless loss of life is a tragedy that nobody should have to endure. And of course, the first words out of the government’s mouths are for...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Some of my latest creations include making an over the door spice rack out of a bunk bed ladder and candle sticks from the legs of an old coffee table. I just love to find things and imagining them as something else. Momma Said,...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate This past weekend I went to see my niece receive her white coat and begin her last year in college to become a veterinarian. I am very proud of her for following her dreams. She had said when she was five years old that...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I have been so busy these past few weeks I don’t know if I am coming or going. I went to my first craft show of the year this past weekend and it was fun. I love to show my masterpieces to people and...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate We had a beautiful Easter Sunday here in Central West Virginia. Gran always said the weather on Easter Sunday would predict the weather for the next seven Sundays and I am happy to say that we had a sunny one. I know this time...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I cannot walk out in the yard without seeing the little purple violets everywhere. We used to call them Johnny-Jump-Ups, when in fact that is a small pansy. But we used to pick them by the handful and take them into mom. She had...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The state of the world is going down the toilet fast. When the Ukrainian troops took back Kyiv it was like walking into a horror story. It has been reported that over 5,000 civilians were basically slaughtered, and this apparently happened after the Russians...
