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

Hey Spooks – Happy Halloween.  We had hoped to treat ourselves to a round of golf at Murder Rock today but Mother Nature played a trick on us and we were rained out.  Our friends Jim and Kathie picked us up about 9 and we were all looking forward to a great day on the [...]

I’m a structured person – I lived by my Franklin planner and Blackberry for years going to whatever meetings my secretary or I had added to my day and personally filling in the blanks for the non-work hours.  It’s not that I don’t like being spontaneous – it just doesn’t come naturally to me.  However, [...]

Beautiful fall days – plenty of sunshine, cool mornings, clear night skies – remind me to be thankful for all those simple pleasures of life: Finding an open StepClimber at the gym Stopping to buy mums and seeing a sign at the greenhouse that says “closed due to weather, leave your money in the locked [...]

Sunday….we had a fabulous day starting with church where one of the members of our Praise Band received a surprise marriage proposal while the minister was giving his announcements.  It was so sweet and had me in tears – geez, I’m such a romantic!  We got the pool closed for good and then met our [...]

The Ghosts and Goblins were out in full force at our church this evening as the kids enjoyed a fun time of games and crafts followed by Trunk or Treat.  This activity is best described as a take on the normal Halloween activity except the goodies are distributed from the trunk of the vehicles in [...]

Saturday Morning Musings: Ed and Agnes departed shortly after 7 this morning – they were on a mission to get home by 5 and since the drive from our house to theirs is right at 10 hours, they left before sunrise.  We had a great visit and look forward to seeing them next fall in [...]

Burl’s brother Ed and his wife Agnes arrived Wednesday from Chicago and we’ve been enjoying family time for the last few days.  We visit each other annually and rotate the location and the host provides the “entertainment”.  Since we couldn’t offer anything really cool like the Architectural Cruise of Chicago on the Chicago River, we [...]

My friend Judy contacted me yesterday and had a couple of extra tickets to the 417 Magazine monthly Cooking Class held at Metro Builders Supply Co.  Unfortunately Burl couldn’t go but Tammy agreed to step in as my date and we had a blast – sorry Steve and Burl, but sometimes a Girls Night Out [...]

Today I racked up tons of paybacks from Tammy as I helped her paint one wall of her dining room and one wall of her “coffee nook”.  The dining room is a 70′s avocado green – the other wall is orange.  If I do say so, they both look spectacular but then we had anal-retentive [...]

The news that Hollywood’s Mr. Blackwell has died was of more importance to me today than whatever the hell Obama or McCain are doing.  I always loved Mr. B’s acerbic comments on the “Worst Dressed” stars – especially since he obviously never saw me, nor was I important anyway, so I never made his list. [...]