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These phishers can't even spell phishing correctly. Makes it really easy to spot a fraud! Plus, I don't even have an American Expres...

Homer has been exceptionally cuddly and purry. He likes Ruffles potato chips.  Frank left on a trip to see Ernest! This is the t...

I am a little late with my seasonal post. Barely 2 weeks after I picked up this delightful book for $1, the basselope reappeared in Berk...

Going to the theater with my niece tonight. My BFF and her daughter are coming to visit at the end of the month. Frank is going to visit...

Things I am over with. (I know, first world problems.) Politics. Period. Old farts thinking they are funny. To a grocery store clerk, ...

Frank likes leeks. We have had his Crispy Fried Leeks many times. One night he had a vision of something he once ate in a now-closed rest...

After a concert drought, when it rains, it pours. Two tickets for Bonnie Raitt literally fell in our laps. I hadn't seen her live ...

A couple things at the fair caught Handy's eye. The Police Porsche.  And the electric cigar box guitar! I love to ...

Concerts have been few and far between the past few years. Ernest reports he recently saw Dave Matthews Band and it was one of his top 3-4...

I was going to title this post Brain Farts, but imagine all the weirdos who would search it! Like me, googling brain fart for a picture or d...

Well, hello.  Yes, I did go on an amazing road trip. I have tons of pictures. And I did take the sewing machine and hem Ernest's curtain...

The whole house is not my cave, just a room or two full of books, plus unused art, craft and sewing supplies. I think I might prefe...

I had a text discussion with Ernest about bringing my sewing machine to hem a pair of curtains, which drag over the towel rack in a bathroom...

Decide on your ultimate destination. Put stickers on the map for things you want to see. Decide which stickers are close to a reasonabl...

A co-worker and I thought this guy was wearing a pointy hat.  And definitely a contrasting effect here: huge cat, tiny perch.  ...

Ernest spotted this pink darling at the Arboretum.  I went wild and crazy with some hard boiled eggs, soaking them in beet juice.  My husban...

You may have seen the cats vs. cucumber video? Homer's not scared. He looked at it and thought, "Hmmph.  I can't eat it. I...

Me:  If you could look at the bill by this weekend, and attach a cover sheet to the TPS report, that would be grrreeaatt! Me: Sorry I couldn...

I, like many others, thought an offer of free Windows 10 was a great thing at first. Now I am reading that it may wreak havoc on older comp...

In my quest to reveal truth in packaging, this is a coconut chicken curry I purchased at Costco. Ugh. And it was much smaller than I expec...