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What was slush yesterday morning en route to work was pretty much a full sheet of crunchy ice this morning – but I was taking it slow and doing quite well until I realized I had a flat tire while on the freeway.  Took the first exit and pulled into the Price Cutter parking lot [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like January 2007 – trees bowed from the weight of ice, limbs breaking off, power outages – not exactly my kind of weather but then Mother Nature didn’t call for my approval first.  I knew exactly what kind of weather day we were going to have when I heard [...]

Tonight was another family birthday celebration – this one for Burl whose actual birthday is Tuesday.  Since we were traveling today I opted for something easy – the extra pan of lasagna left from Christmas cooking paired with a loaf of crusty bread, salad and a delicious strawberry cake baked especially for her PaPa by [...]

Granddaughter Lydia is 2 today and we have just finished having her fabulous party!  Older sister Julia was quite the party planner – she chose an Elmo theme complete with party hats, plates and napkins.  Ralph had petit fors made with a “2″ on top and we feasted on cake and ice cream before Lydia [...]

Dinner tonight with friends Vickie and Robin – this month at Clary’s, next month Ocean Zen.  No matter where we dine just having a dinner date on the calendar a month out cheers me each month – and they are such neat women.  Last month we decided we needed a name for our trio – [...]

The media had quite the heyday yesterday over Super Tuesday and it didn’t take long for me to tire of the sameness on the TV channels.  I’ll admit I don’t get to hold the remote often so the channel surfing was limited to Burl’s choices although I could have gone to the set in the [...]

It’s Super Tuesday and I urge everyone to exercise your right to vote – a privilege that is not guaranteed to everyone in our world.  We voted early this morning and opted to vote “for” a candidate instead of strategizing on someone we think may later be beatable – just couldn’t in good conscience ask [...]

After being in Phoenix this past week and seeing Super Bowl hype ad nauseum on the local TV stations I really settled in this evening to watch the commercials with little regard for the game.  I didn’t really have a favorite team although after hearing that the NE Patriots had spied on other teams this [...]

We’re home!  Left Mike and Annie’s house at 1:00 p.m. CST and were home by 9:00 p.m. after stopping for a leisurely dinner.  Such a deal!  Mulligan greeted up with big sloppy kisses and followed us around for an hour before finally convincing Burl to just sit down and let him rest his head on Burl’s [...]

Our bags are packed and I just returned from my last long walk in sunny Phoenix.  We enjoyed the sunny weather yesterday with both a power walk and then a long bike ride along the canal trails that took us all the way to downtown Phoenix via a series of tunnels that avoided having to [...]