Geocaching with Hubby
Hubby spent the winter finding geocaches all over the Texas panhandle. I talked about it in an earlier blog, December of 2014 to be exact, so if you don’t know what that is, click that link to read about how multibillion dollar satellites are used to find little containers with registers in them in the […]
Making a Mess
I got the bright idea to make a beef bourguignon stew this weekend. I’d had it a long time ago and loved it. Since it sounded so good to me, I decided to make a pot of it. I got a recipe off the internet and armed with the list of ingredients, visited the grocery […]
Mechanical Awareness
Last week, I admitted to being totally ignorant about financial matters when I was much younger. This week, let me tell you how stupid I was where my poor car was concerned. I freely admit I wasn’t too smart when I got out of high school. My grades made me appear to be, but the […]
Don’t Tell Our Kids
Growing up with a stern father made us kids fearful of what would happen if he found out we’d participated in some shenanigan or did something we knew he’d get mad about. An oft-heard statement was, “Don’t tell Dad!” We knew either a long lecture or a hard spanking would follow his learning about what […]
Was That What I Think It Was?
This past week, on a backroad to a small Texas town, I was approaching a corner in the road that blocked my view of where the road would go up the hill after crossing a small creek. A motorcycle police officer, his lights flashing was riding down the centerline and moving cars like me to […]
Tough Week
Over the holidays, Hubby and I enjoyed two weeks with our kids in their home. Hubby traveled home to South Dakota for a week, and I had a great first week with our kids. I didn’t see them much. Our kids have so many friends here that wanted time with them that I mostly sat […]
Preparations for Christmas
The last package has been mailed off. The tree is up. Gifts were given to our great neighbors. We’re back in Texas. I’m ready for Christmas. Almost…. The older I get, the less I like to cook. I haven’t planned any meals for the coming holiday when Daughter and Son-in-law will be here. I know […]
I Came Up Short
In November, I told you about participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). My goal was to write 50,000 words in November. While I didn’t get an exact count of how many words I wrote, I added 38,200 new words to a new novel plus rewrote a short story that I submitted for a contest. […]