Last weekend Michael and I went on a little jaunt. For me, a jaunt is a really short trip, usually just about a day and a half. It gives you time enough to stay in a nice boutique hotel or Bed and Breakfast (it's only for one night, so let's go nice) and a couple [...]
Where has summer fled? This was brought home this morning (I am writing this on Thursday, August 18th) when Michelle put up a post on Facebook showing the boys on their first day back to school. I then recall those pre-retirement days with the "July" welcome back letter, and the teacher workday schedules of this [...]
Hello and welcome to a new blog post. For today's post, I am trying a small experiment. I do like my separates to function on different levels. This topper by Rachel Ann Gottlieb, originally purchased from ETSY for a "Dress Inn All White" party I attended earlier in the Summer, is no different. I didn't [...]
A few weeks ago, my older daughter sent me a message that went something like: "Mom, I found a pair of Melissa shoes on sale and really want them but need a little more to get free shipping. Could you find a pair to throw in so I can have free shipping?" I ask you, [...]
In 1913, the secretary of agriculture, worried about declining farm population, sent a survey to American farm-women asking what the US Dept of Agriculture might do for them to make rural life more "comfortable, healthful, and attractive." The department was pretty surprised by the responses. From Tennessee, a lady wrote that a girl would [...]
I kept putting this photo shoot off because it is so hot and humid here in Missouri. These are truly the "dog days of summer." It's so bad that my dogs and my rabbit, Mr. BB, my old Angora bunny, spend their afternoons sleeping not far from one another on my kitchen floor. When it's [...]
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