Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

According to Freakenomics(one of my very favorite blogs), here’s the definition of “bleg”: “What’s a bleg? A bleg = blog + beg — i.e., using a blog to beg for information. (This is not to be confused with the Dutch beleg — which is either a sandwich filling or the declaration of martial law.)” In [...]

It had to happen – once we decided to get rid of our cable TV and go to a Dish, the next step was to say good-by to cable internet and switch to DSL.  AT&T made it happen early last week but today was the first chance I had to devote the time to make [...]

We just returned from a short trip to mid-Missouri.  I attended a 2-day training session for Rotary president-elects for 2008-09 and we were able to combine the trip to meet with our CPA and get our taxes done.  The Rotary event was educational, fun and very worthwhile – the tax meeting was anything but!  Any ideas [...]

Dear hubby has so many wonderful traits but he also has one “vice” – the TV!  He absolutely loves to channel surf and no Sunday afternoon is complete without a glance at the PGA.  As a semi-Luddite I realized I’d have to make some changes when we married – after all, I had one old [...]

We meet with our CPA next Friday so in an effort to be on-the-ball and efficient I started gathering our tax info a month ago.  I dutifully took the prep booklet he sent and attached the supporting documentation to each page so when we get to his office, hopefully we’ll have the answer to each [...]

Son-in-law Steve is teaching me how to upload photos tonight so here’s my test photo - us at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in February 2007.  I still don’t know how to get the text to flow around the photo or how to position the photo but we’re working on it! Stay tuned – more [...]

I feel like life is in a holding pattern at the moment – not that it’s a bad place to be, just different.  For example, when we switch to daylight saving time I expect spring to arrive- but alas, we are in this holding pattern of erratic weather where we get a glimpse of spring for [...]

My absolute favorite comic strip is For Better or For Worse because not only do the characters age but they also experience all the joys and trials of real life.  Unfortunately, the author, Lynn Johnston has been dealing with personal health issues and plans to halt the aging process of the characters sometime in the [...]

Zarah has tagged me! These are the rules! 1. Link to the person who tagged you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. 4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. 5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by [...]

An early spring get-away to Hot Springs, AR with good friends Becky and Clarence seemed like a cure for the winter doldrums – after all, Hot Springs is >200 miles south of here so it had to be warmer, right?  Wrong!  Fortunately we didn’t leave until Friday morning because we heard Hwy. 65 was closed [...]