Life is not perfect. Being a very detailed person, I work overtime trying to make everything just right, especially when “Company’s Coming!” Of late, I have experienced some cooking casualties…the sweet potatoes not quite baked long enough, the meat a bit OVER cooked. It seems I have to google often for oven temperatures and Read more about #155…Beware of Aisle Dancing[…]
I come from a rich heritage of incredible people. As a 14 year old, my mother became a decorated veteran in the underground army in the Warsaw Uprising. She carried execution orders wrapped up as cigarettes in her pack. There are no words to describe my feelings when standing next to her in Warsaw by Read more about #150…You Gave It All[…]
I played with calling this Pandemic a “NEW” normal as everyone is calling it, but that particular “new” in my life happened when I got divorced after 33 years. That gut wrenching trauma amidst waling and panic attacks flip flopped my life forever. It was my sentence, one broken and lonely night when I said Read more about #148…Again, a New Chapter[…]
A sad day today. Kentucky Derby Day. I did wear my hat for breakfast……in the kitchen. Always that anticipation leading up to 5:30 PM….”MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME”, the song for today…..all the traditions every bit as important as those exciting 2 minutes….mint juleps….. The Woodford Reserve is waiting on the counter….little water, tsp of powdered Read more about #147…Yet Another Cancellation[…]
. We are getting so many projects done during this pandemic. Came home from Lowe’s yesterday with our patio plants on a most perfect sunny NO WIND day..a rarity on this tornado hill! For once, I did not have to tie myself to a tree to plant my flowers. So we spent 7 hours in Read more about #144…Date Night on the Fly…[…]
Our date night was this morning. A rendezvous to Cosentino’s Price Chopper. Of course we dressed for the occasion in our finest vinyl disposable gloves. Unfortunately I had to wake hub side kick at 6:30 after reading that we would have freezing rain by 9 AM. Grumbles got up and we left. A short time Read more about #142…Home Bound, Iced In, 3 Ways to Prepare Fresh Beets[…]
Life flies by sooo fast. Sometimes I lose a day in one week. Every few months I seem to have a 3 week month and am in confusion that whole time. Then it seems like the older I get, the whole year flies by and it’s Jan 1 again and the next day it’s time Read more about #139…2020…Cancelled, Closed……..[…]
How hard can this be? I set up a “kitchen rug” list on Amazon…..YESTERDAY I shopped online, checked my list of preferences, maybe 45 mins. I clicked on 2 buttons…2 seconds YESTERDAY. A few minutes ago they were delivered at our door from S. Carolina by UPS. Did I mention I ordered YESTERDAY? NEVER have Read more about #138…Easy DYI…Ordering Kitchen Rugs[…]
Twenty five years old holding my 3rd child. Today, my grandchildren are holding their babies, though those great grandbabies will be approaching their pre-teen years within 3+ years. Wow! So much to do…but it is so funny, I find the older I get, the more I have to do. There doesn’t seem anyway to simplify Read more about #122…Where Have the Years Gone To?[…]
‘Twas the night before dawn…And quiet through the house…The news was blasting, the coffee was on…..Hub side-kick was tucked, asleep in the bed…The morning was mine, a delight to be had… When outside the window, came a horrible crash. A cow mooed. First light showed, no cow had strayed…Mr. got up, to the basement he Read more about #119…’Twas The Night Before…[…]
