small town me

Certain interests skipped a generation in my family.   My father would have enjoyed Ernest right now. I think they had a lot in commo...

I picked up something new (for me) from Trader Joe's. This looks tasty. But it looked a little different when I opened the package...

A friend sent me this. I did find some chocolate the other day, only about 6 steps away! I'd forgotten I had good chocolate stashe...

I was trying to take a picture of my incredibly delicious chicken tortilla soup, topped with guacamole from The Avocado Diva 's Sa...

Things seem to be going wrong today.  I feel like I should have stayed in bed. In fact, when I saw this photo this morning (on the anniversa...

I brought this afghan from my dad's house.  It's very comfy and cozy and as you can see, many of us like it.  I wa...

That would have been one of my best Scrabble words, if only I'd had an R. Arrrrgh.  Frank and I were playing with Mr. LMF (Leg...

No I did not have the sh!t geyser that plagued Aunt Snow. I heard an ominous burbling from one of the toilets, though. That always signif...

Ok, I'm sorry. I know some of you are still freezing, but I don't control the weather, do I?  Where is a weather witch when you ne...

Things keep happening. But since I haven't blogged about other things that precipitated them, I can't blog about the subsequent thin...

Winnie the Pooh : Christopher Robin! I think it would help with this deception if you would just kind of open your umbrella and say, "...

My husband told his sister how handy I was with the iPhone. "He said you could find anything!" she told me. Apparently so. I track...

"Hogwarts" releases their wizarding students for the week following President's Day. They call it Ski Week. While Ernest hikes...

Someone in the house loves to chew ice. Not only do I hear the crunch crunch crunch  but also the grind grind grind of the ice dis...

Well, yes, more cat pictures. Francine is an inside cat. She came to us that way, and she is so skittish we'd never find her if she we...

Oh, my crazy kids. I ask for pretty poses and this is what I get. I seem to have taking an inadvertent little blog brea...

Yesterday, January 24th, was National Pie Day , not to be confused with Pi Day . So I pulled out Pie, by Ken Haedrich, for inspiration....

In the ongoing saga of my refrigerator , in which first the ice was melting, and second water was collecting under the vegetable drawer... ...

In 24 hours, I have: Picked up a pile of wet paper towels from the women's room counter at a fancy theater. Apparently, some women can...

Needing a picture for the yearbook by March 1, we decided to take Ernest's senior pictures ourselves. This saves us a rather expensive ...