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

Anyone remember the old Saturday Night Live skit about PuppyUppers and Doggy Downers?  Well Mulligan looks like he got into a big bag of Doggy Downers.  He’s sad, depressed and angry.  He feels betrayed and wouldn’t smile for the camera. During the presidential election he was almost ready to vote against McCain when he heard [...]

I haven’t knit a sweater for myself since Tammy was a toddler so it was with a little trepidation that I started one called the February Lady Sweater.  True to my nature, I began it in March and finished it in April – so much for the February aspect. I knit it with a yarn [...]

Picking out paint colors is certainly not my long suit.  For one thing, I cannot visualize how the color will look on the walls and then there’s the issue of how the color will go with the rest of the house if/when we ever get around to painting all the wall. I finally narrowed the [...]

Eons ago, my dear friend Sally and I used to entertain ourselves – and annoy all those around us – with this stupid “Knock-Knock” joke: Knock-knock Who’s there? Ether Ether Who? Ether Bunny! But wait – there’s more!  There was “Nutter” as in “Nutter Ether Bunny” and “Stella” – “Stella Nutter Ether Bunny”.  If you’re [...]

We had to go to Home Depot today to buy paint for the bathroom along with the tile and all that laying tile entails.  While I waited for my paint to be mixed, I strolled the aisles and here’s what I found!  Before I could even think about taking a photo to submit to wordsplosion.com, [...]

I’ve found my remodeling niche.  Give me something to tear up and I’m all over it.  Observe – butt ugly wall tile which Burl calls “beige”.  He has also been known to call it “off white” but he also thinks eggshell, bisque, almond and ivory are the same color.  Men! Anyway, Burl gave me an [...]

The sink has been ordered!  Whew – another bathroom decision made so check an item off the list.    Here’s a shot of the Santa Fe vessel sink - here’s hoping there’s a hole in the middle of it!  In all fairness to local businesses, I really did try to buy it here.  I did my research [...]

Today was the local election for Springfield city mayor, city council and the Springfield R-12 School Board.  Since we live outside the city limits, we were not eligible to vote for mayor or city council but could vote for the school board candidates. We forgot to vote. I really feel awful because it’s my feeling [...]

My bathroom fixtures arrived today – the shower head, tub faucet and the sink faucet for the soon-to-be ordered vessel sink.  They are just as beautiful as I imagined and I can’t wait to see them installed. But – there are more decisions to be made before we reach that point!  We spent the afternoon [...]

We didn’t get our local newspaper, The Springfield News-Leader, today.  Considering the Monday and Tuesday editions are so slim now, it wasn’t much of a miss.  But it did interrupt our normal routine of drinking coffee while we read the paper at the kitchen table.  Instead Burl opted for GolfWeek and I chose Newsweek. I [...]