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Totally blew the Christmas Card thing this year. So this is a New Year’s shout out to all my friends and family – and whomever else happens to stumble across this blog.
Last year, I talked my family into doing a themed picture Chrismas card – everyone needed to have a candy cane in the [...]
Well, it’s snowing again. After a 55 degree day last week we’ve plunged back into winter. So, we have two choices. We can either “have a cow”* or we can try to catch snowflakes on our tongues.
*The expression “have a cow” is said to have originated in the 1950s. The [...]
Well, it’s been a year, and I haven’t done much with this site. I really spent most of last year just “being” with my friend Deb, who was battling cancer. She lost that battle in October, but at one point she told me that if she got better she wanted to be [...]
It’s early morning and I reluctantly get out of bed. It’s hard to leave the warmth on these cold winter mornings. But I do it because I know what I will be feeling soon rivals the warmth of the bed. It will fill my senses, boost my spirits and, besides that, make [...]
After reading Common Sense and feeling like this world is headed towards a train wreck, I flew home on Sunday with a window seat and no one beside me. The clouds were absolutely incredible. There were wispy clouds that looked like layers of cotton candy. There were cumulus clouds that looked like [...]
This past weekend my brother and his fiancee got married! It was a wonderful wedding, and I’m so happy for them! Tennessee was warm, and sunny, and the wedding was outdoors in a gorgeous setting at Rhonda’s mother’s house.
I think they are perfect together. This picture (not taken by me, I [...]
I love having creamed asparagus on toast for lunch. Must be my English heritage, I’m thinking. However, today was a creamed asparagus on toast disaster. Here’s how it happened:
I decided I wanted to make a healthy version which means I substituted walnut oil for butter then I made my roux with [...]
We fenced in our garden this year. I’m loving it! The dogs can no longer run through, and there’s something about a white picket fence that just screams quaint.
We had one problem though. My husband couldn’t figure out how to get the gate to work the traditional way. The support just [...]
I really never realized JUST how big a deal cars are to guys until this weekend, when my husband got to drive a Ferrari. It’s just for the weekend. But man, what attention that car gets. I never even knew what a Ferrari looked like. It just looks like a nice red [...]
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