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

Wedding bells rang today for our friends Becky and Clarence, shown here with Burl and me at their reception at the Tower Club.   The wedding was held earlier this afternoon at Elfindale where Becky was escorted by her two daughters and there were few dry eyes in the house after their friend Gary Smith conducted [...]

What more can I say?  My favorite comic strip has come to a glorious end making me teary over my coffee this morning.  Now Tammy and I can write our own stories about the Pattersons and their families – and yes, Anthony and Elizabeth WILL have a baby in our version! We’ll hear “for better [...]

My iPhone is officially known as a piece of iCrap!  I bought it in mid-May (yes, I know – I paid way too much and it was soon outdated but I needed a phone when I had to relinquish my crackberry along with the pesky day job) and while we were on our trip to [...]

When we were in Phoenix earlier this summer I scored a great buy on this fabulous new handbag at Sigrid Olsen.  The store was closing and they practically paid me to take it off their hands – I had no choice but to buy it.  The color is “plum” and I decided to wait until [...]

Yesterday I read that oil was up $5 a barrel due to speculation that the latest tropical storm, Gustav, will knock out some oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.  I figured that with oil prices going up coupled with Labor Day, gas prices were sure to rise so on my way to Harter House, [...]

A few months ago when I left Life 1.0 I had this vision of how things would be by the end of the summer – my entire house would be clean which means closets cleaned out, cabinets organized, no dust on the furniture, the deck staining would be complete - get the picture?  Well let’s just [...]

I did a quick bicycle ride to Strafford and back this morning and along the way experienced the first sign that fall is on the horizon – an obese woolly worm!  I’ve always heard that the size of a woolly worm foretells how harsh winter will be and this little puppy was scary.  I’m the [...]

Anthony and Elizabeth are now Mr. and Mrs. and I almost cried today when I read For Better or For Worse.  I have wanted them to be together before Lynn Johnston “froze” the characters in time and now I have closure.  Tammy and I have rooted for them all along while Ralph kept insisting that [...]

That was our plan tonight at the Big Brothers Big Sister’s annual fundraiser, A New Taste, which we always enjoy attending.  After the fiasco last year when we bid with the wrong number we made absolutely certain we knew the correct number and as a result made some great purchases.  I got 6 months at [...]

………you get your first pension check!  Wow – what a thrill.  I went on-line tonight to update our check book and immediately knew the balance was too high which is just as scary as when it appears to be too low.  However closer inspection revealed that my first pension check had been automatically deposited.  I [...]