Monthly Archives: July 2012

Day 177 Today’s conversation with Sam prompted me to thinking about food from the 60’s. My mom always set a nice dinner table and made whatever she was making for the 5 of us look really pretty … and it … Continue reading →

Day 176 I heard, on the radio today, about Shelby Harris. And who is Shelby Harris, you ask? He is a man who died last week. He was 111 years old and the oldest man living in the United States. His … Continue reading →

Day 175 I wish I could blame my day on some sort of affliction … like my having severe ADHD or something along those lines. Instead I think I’m just going to make up a new one and blame my … Continue reading →

Day 174 What math word did the acorn say when he grew up? Gee, I’m a tree! Ha … sorry. Bad joke. But today’s conversation with my neighbor was no joke and it has me wondering what I can do … Continue reading →

Day 173 As many of you know I am a numbers person. I count. I count when I am out walking. I don’t sing. I don’t think. I count. I find it most aggravating! I could be solving the world’s … Continue reading →

Day 172 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Or in this case, I also need to say … Gracias. Gracias. Gracias! My new lawn crew arrived this morning at 9am … all 5 of them, armed with the necessary lawn implements … Continue reading →

Day 171 I am watching Gertie eat a bug. It is the size of a gnat (and probably is one) and yet she has chewed it like it were a piece of salt water taffy – pineapple flavored – as … Continue reading →

Day 170 I am not a reader. Well, let me rephrase that … I do not ALLOW myself to be a reader. Basically because I get so absorbed I don’t do anything else. The house gets dusty, the animals go … Continue reading →

Day 169 Okay, I admit it … I am a Food Network junkie. Plain and simple. I love the channel, I love the shows, I love the people. I am a fan! If I could only have one channel on … Continue reading →

Day 168 I have a sick dog. Gertie has been visibly down in the dumps all day. I think I know her problem. She can’t sing. No, that’s not her problem. Her problem is that she helped herself to the … Continue reading →

Day 167 I saw the post about the shootings on MSN this morning and it was Columbine and Virginia Tech all over again.  I didn’t know until later that the total of wounded and dead was nearly 75. Who does … Continue reading →

Day 166 I should have taken the time, earlier in my day, when my mind was full of things to write about … because now I am coming up like I’m the Sahara Desert … quite dry! We had 3 … Continue reading →

Day 165 I hear the jungle drums in the distance … at least I think I hear jungle drums in the distance. It might be the airport. In any case … by the humidity level and jungle mugginess … it … Continue reading →

Day 164 I have a secret. I am a magazine junkie. Seriously. If there is a title published, I’ve, at one time or another, subscribed to it. Well, maybe not … but it seems like it. I was dusting tonight … Continue reading →

Day 163 I have only three letters to describe that first moment when I walked outside the airport in Chicago late this afternoon … O.M.G. I left Denver this morning, hair fluffed, and though it was 96 or something … I … Continue reading →

Day 162 Ping, ping, ping … ding, ping! I feel as if I’ve lived inside a pinball game this weekend! Back and forth and over here and over there and then back again and so on. Visiting is a LOT … Continue reading →

Day 161 I’d never make it as someone who had to travel a lot. I don’t think I’d be much good for anyone in that capacity … my brain gets too messed up with even the simplest of location changes. … Continue reading →

Day 160 Tonight the girls of the ‘hood gathered for an FAC (Friday Afternoon Club) … but in the evening. Old friends, good friends … that bunch of friends and neighbors that some people are so lucky to have during their … Continue reading →

Day 159 Had it not been for the moonlessness of the night and the fact that John actually was not on the stage … tonight’s John Denver concert was lovely and nearly perfect. It was a gorgeous evening up at … Continue reading →

Day 158 Tonight I’m sleeping with Brutus. He is gorgeous … at 182 pounds he is fit and all muscle. He is sweet, attentive, and very loving. He has sandy brown hair speckled with white (or the other way around), … Continue reading →

Day 157 Pterodactyl Airlines … I think I’d prefer to fly on them than Spirit Airlines (whom I’m scheduled on for my upcoming flight). I think with P.A. I’d be strapped to the wings and have to flap my arms … Continue reading →

Day 156 It is said that you can’t fight City Hall. I think someone in the City Hall office made that up. I think it was the guy I met with today. His name was Jack. Jack Ass. The fence … Continue reading →

Day 155 I am like Santa. I make my list, check it twice … and then go the extra mile (or two) and check it again … and then later in the day I check it again. And each time … Continue reading →

Day 154 I am in Heaven. We were just shy of another triple digit day when I walked into the mall this afternoon; when I walked back to my car – we were in the 80’s. By the time I … Continue reading →

Day 153 I think today’s post coincides with today’s temp … 153! Or so it seemed! We hit another record … so, what else is new … right?! So has everyone else on the planet! It did reach 116 heat … Continue reading →

Day 152 I was doing whatever I was doing, today, obviously my mind was NOT on whatever was at hand because out of the blue (in my head, not out loud) I heard Tom Hank’s voice reciting the many ways … Continue reading →

Day 151 Benjamin Franklin is my uncle. Well, more like my great-great-great uncle … somewhere on my maternal grandmother’s side. And, I am inclined to believe, somehow, through the ages and handed down/watered down gene pool a certain amount of … Continue reading →

Day 150 I feel like we all lost a neighbor today. The slow talking, good-natured southern gentleman who lived down the street – who waved as you went by or offered you a lemonade as you passed on foot,  the … Continue reading →

Day 149 It was an exciting late afternoon. I went down to the basement this afternoon to throw in some laundry. Yes, woo-hoo, exciting!!! I was barefoot (I would have made a great child of the prairie for that reason … Continue reading →

Day 148 I was sitting here enjoying a soft breeze when it made me think how much I really liked soft breezes … and fake cheese. Well, not together. Or maybe together. Breezes are great. Wind not so much. I … Continue reading →