Okay, I am actually getting this one out on the correct day – sort of. It’s after midnight, so technically, it’s really Tuesday – but you have to admit, I’m getting closer! Anyhow, Valentine’s Day is over with. So it’s time to humiliate our big cement dog with the next holiday: Mardi Gras! (And no,…

Okay, I know it’s Tuesday, but I’m really having a time getting motivated to write at all.  This is me making an effort. Yesterday (Monday), we were invited to join my sister Karon, her husband, and her husband’s mother for lunch at the Riverside (a nearby café). You betcha, I was in. My dear husband…

Today, I sent out the e-mails and retired. Yup. After 40+ years of working for (and with) attorneys, I am finally and officially off the clock – forever. Whew. It was time. So, now I am a fat old lady of leisure! Can’t wait to get my leisure on.

This morning, my dear hubby and I were on our way home from a special mid-week breakfast out, and this old lady (and yes, I know I have some nerve referring to anybody as old) in a white SUV pulls up behind me, tailgates and first chance she gets goes whipping around me and zooming…

I love gifts that have a secret meaning. I’m just passive aggressive that way. For example: I HATE biscuits and gravy. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

I subscribe to a few recipe email sites.  They send me recipes, I look at them, and if I think they look yummy and/or worth the time and effort, I type them into my (unreasonably large) recipe database. What you don’t want to see as an e-mail header – SOUTHERN SURPRISE SOUP Um.  So now,…

Me and my dear hubby are watching TV and as usual, during the commercials, we have the sound off. Suddenly on the screen I see an ad for a product that is clearly meant just for me. Aveeno Calm + Restore I don’t know about the state of my skin, but I’m thinking I need…

When we bought this house, it came with two accoutrement – a huge bear carved out of a tree stump and a heavy-as-fuck cement Dalmatian on the front porch (yup, the Beverly Hillbillies had a ce-ment pond; I got me a ce-ment dog). Since the bear (happily not part of the blow-me-bears that the previous…

Okay.  I do apologize, but it feels like I needed to catch my breath there.  Breath caught (at least for now). How are my Cali peeps doing?  Everybody staying safe and dry?  Yikes y’all.  One reason I moved was because of the never ending droughts.  Guess that’s not so much an issue for now, huh? …

Yes, I know I didn’t post at all this week.  I am not used to being near family during the holidays and all the obligations that places on one’s time.  To be clear, I am not complaining.  I am really enjoying having Christmas with my family for the first time in over 40 years. Something…