Momma Said

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I take Raven with me in the truck a lot of the time and I have some toys for her to play with.  One is a plush toy and the other is one side of a set of deer antlers.  All my dogs love...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Here we are in the last week of November 2023 and the end of the year is coming fast.  I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and didn’t eat too much.  If you were out there deer hunting, I hope you got meat for...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Everyone has heard the Dr. Suess Story of The Cat in The Hat, well this past week I woke up around 3 a.m. and I had A Hat from a Cat.  Yes Katy Kat had made her way between my head and the headboard...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Nov. 10 was the 23rd anniversary of mom’s passing and it even landed on the same date as her death.  Sometimes time passes so slowly but in this instance 23 years seems like the blink of an eye.  I can still remember how she...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate We have experienced so many weather changes this past week, we have had rain that turned to snow, cold weather that turned warm again and I am very confused.   I just want it to stay warm but that is not going to happen. ...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The weather has been crazy here, week before it was getting down into the twenties and this week it has been in the mid 70’s.  We cleaned up the yard here at work a couple weeks ago and they are growing back now because...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Freya Bleu is growing quickly and she is into everything.  I’ve had to take her to the vet because the person I got her from emailed and said one of her littermates had coccidia.  Coccidia are a single cell parasite that infects the intestinal...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I pulled the trigger and added another fur-baby to the family.  Her name is Freya Bleu and she is another black German Shepherd Dog.  She is so like Ripley in her ways that it is kind of weird.  I got her for my birthday...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The Forest Festival was a hit and the weather was very cooperative.  The trees are starting to turn and it was beautiful.  I am happy when the festivals and fairs have good weather because I remember how disappointed I was as a kid when...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate For once the weather cooperated and the Fireman’s Carnival was a success.  Most years the rain moves in and spoils all the fun for the Carnival and the Forest Festival.  But the weather is supposed to hold and both will be great.  October is...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I am still continuing my morning walks that I started with Ripley.  I do miss her energy and just watching her enjoy being out.  It is so sad to have lost her so soon but I still have Mud Puppy /aka/ Amber and Gracie,...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Our “Fake Fall” is here in the beautiful state of West Virginia.  It seems to do this every year, we will have temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s and the next week it will be in the mid 70’s and down in the 40’s...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Tucker County is a place of peaks and valleys, twists and turns and a lot of rivers and waterways.  That is why Corridor-H is the road with a thousand bridges.  The count is also known for immense fog banks rolling in at night and...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate As a whole our society is becoming so complacent.  We don’t drive, we call an Uber, we don’t shop, we text the store and they bring it to your car, we don’t cook, we just call Door-dash, we don’t call and talk to each...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate It is with a heavy heart that I write my column this week.  My fur-baby Ripley is gone.  She got out of the back yard and was hit by a car this past Sunday night.  The car didn’t even stop to see what happened. ...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I had a very “exciting” beginning to this week.  I had to rescue Katy Kat from a baby opossum, which took a trip in a bucket to the forest where it belongs.  She does not like to come inside when the weather is pretty,...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Isn’t it crazy when you hear a song from your past and it transports you right back to that time?  A friend of mine sent me a video of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show singing Sylvia and that song took me right back...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Just a few short weeks until school starts again and I bet the kids are just thrilled, NOT.  It is another month down and that much closer to the end of another year.  It seems the birthdays are coming far too fast anymore.  Momma...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I am so tired of this political stuff I could gag.  Everyone and their brother are throwing their hats in the ring for president.  West Virginia is going to have someone run for the first time in history I think.  He was a decent...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate It is hard to believe that this month would have been mom’s 90th birthday.  As a kid I remember thinking that I could not picture my mother as an old woman.  She would be young and superwoman forever.  I wish that had been true. ...