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

First of all, I hereby dedicate this blog posting to my dear friend, and Woman of Substance, Vickie who is celebrating her birthday today.  Even though we’ve already spoken on the phone – and she has complained about my lack of new posts – I just want to state for the record what an all-around [...]

Today I did a show shoeing adventure with my own private guide, Alicia.  She was an amazing young woman who lead me on a great path that she rated somewhere between “mellow and mild” as opposed to “challenging”.  We started out from a trail head about 10 this morning and quickly crossed a meadow and [...]

Well this gal who hates snow and cold weather is now living in Park City, UT for the next five days.  It’s a perfect example of what I do for love! Burl has always wanted a family ski vacation so that’s what he got from me for his birthday.  Not all of our kids were [...]

Granddaughter Lydia absolutely LOVES Hello Kitty so when I saw the pattern for this knitted hat on Ravelry, I knew I had to make it. Naturally her sister, Julia, is getting one too!  Just wish I could see them on the girls but I’m counting on my SIL, Blair, to send photos as soon as [...]

I had grand plans for blogging first thing this morning but somehow the day has just gotten away from me!  I went with Burl to get the oil changed in the truck and for him to eat breakfast (he LOVES to eat breakfast out – I hate it!) – then home for him to do [...]

Mike and Annie have been without Internet service for four days and we’ve all felt like we’re living on a deserted island!  Oh sure, we have our iPhones but they don’t offer the full service of a laptop or PC and I find I seldom answer emails from mine unless I can do it with [...]

We’re back at our winter home in Phoenix tonight and Mulligan is one happy puppy.   We left him with Mike and Annie over two weeks ago and I have no doubt that we missed him more than he missed us! As always, he was happy to see us, but didn’t seem quite as excited as [...]

Allegedly everyone and everything has a price and we proved that today when we sold 2 hours of our time for $125! When we were at the Buick Open PGA tournament recently we were approached by a timeshare company that offered us one of several incentives to come listen to their two-hour sales pitch.  Since one [...]

Back on dry land – no more gently swaying with the boat – no more endless food offerings – no more nightly turn-down service – no more ocean view out our cabin window – just reality! We awoke about 6:15 and watched the ship dock in San Diego.  I had charged my iPhone overnight so [...]

We got an extra hour of sleep last night since we set our clocks back to San Diego time to get ready to dock tomorrow so we were up bright and early today and saw the beautiful sunrise from our cabin.  We’ve loved having an ocean view and sleeping with our curtains open so we [...]