small town me

For the first time in 10 days, I am alone.  (Cats don't count!)  For an introvert like me, I find it restful and recharging.  In an hour...

The company my husband works for was sold recently, and the founders (too bad my husband was not one of them), came into a nice chunk of mon...

There's cheesecake , there's mancake , and then there's what I like to call braincake.  Smart people.  I like them. We heard o...

I joke about my brown thumb but I do manage to keep a few tomato plants alive each year.  I planted these about two weeks ago. And they...

Every day I, Homer, am responsible for fending off interlopers.  The threat is most severe around dinner time. This one again.  Well,...

Homer, the former factory cat, is always curious about what my kitchen the cafeteria has for lunch. Chicken panini?  Not his favorite. ...

Another set of PAIRS for Thematic Photographic , and it also works for Saturday PhotoHunt's ZOOM because I took them all with my zoo...

A pair of hedge plants did not make it through the winter. Here are their replacements, waiting for us to dig a pair of holes. In...

Ernest was gone for 4 days to a leadership conference.  We didn't want him to leave his car in the school parking lot that long, so we t...

He's learned the truth at seventeen That life is meant for those who dream Blue-eyed boy with clear skinned smile Childhood lasts...

Thank you to Jenn for hosting Time Warp Tuesday. I apologize for the blurry last minute-ness of this.  Today's restorative yoga visua...

It's a blustery but sunny day today. Funny thing, it was the same last Monday.  I had returned from my restorative yoga class, where w...

Yep, it was "Bye, Mom" again for Ernest's spring break. Also at the airport, I had a "Whoops I Did it Again...

I saw this great GIF of The Rock's eyebrow going up and down. I wanted to save it for Debbie . But my phone only saved a still picture. ...

Of course I admit my cats are spoiled.  But I'm not always the one who does it.  They are used to getting fed at 6:30 a.m. on weekdays, ...

Apple-flavored yogurt for breakfast. Sleeping cats. Purple flowers. Smiling faces. (It's offi...