Leslie T Travis

06/23/2026

Trying to save the baby bird we eatched all Spring

06/20/2026

06/18/2026

Watch as Hollywood icons and celebrity impressions bring the house ...

06/18/2026

A huge congratulations to our lucky Father’s Day Prize Pack Winner!...

06/08/2026

My country music hero!

SHE MARRIED AS A TEENAGER. HAD FOUR KIDS BEFORE 20. THEY CALLED LORETTA LYNN LUCKY — BUT LUCK NEVER HAD TO FIGHT NASHVILLE THAT HARD. Loretta Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, in a house without electricity or running water. A coal miner's daughter who learned early that poor women did not get many soft places to land. She could have disappeared into the kind of life nobody writes songs about. Instead, she wrote the songs.

Nashville let her in. Then spent years trying to decide how much truth a woman was allowed to tell. She sang about birth control. Banned. She sang about cheating husbands. Banned.

She sang about double standards, pregnancy, anger, and the private wars women were expected to survive quietly. Banned. The problem was never that she was wrong. The problem was that she was saying it out loud. Sixteen #1 hits. The first woman named CMA Entertainer of the Year.

Decades later, Jack White drove to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee just to record with her — because even rock and roll knew Nashville had never fully caught up to Loretta Lynn. She was still writing songs at 89. She died in 2022. Maybe it's time the rest of us stopped calling Loretta Lynn lucky. She was the woman Nashville tried to soften for sixty years — who outlasted every single person who told her no.
▶️Listen this song in the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 👇

06/07/2026

Saving this for a patio project!

06/07/2026

Stayed the night with Aunt Kathy after the NMBA awards im Albuquerque. My dog, Tillie, loved it there! Ice cream every night on the couch and bacon for breakfast.

06/06/2026

Where we going? Road Trip

Explore hidden restaurants in New Mexico where cozy rooms, bold chile, classic burgers, and hometown cooking make every stop memorable.