Category Archives: Misc.

New Years Brunch

Today we had the annual New Year’s brunch with our SWIRL (Society for Wine Inbibing Radical Liberals) group. Ruth hosted the brunch and set a lovely table. Southern was the theme for the food this year, somehow due to the fact that I said I would bring my cheese grits casserole. (Thanks, mom!) Everyone else [...]

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Our Christmas Party

Every year on the weekend before Christmas we have a party. It’s our time to host a big gathering and we really look forward to it.  This has been a really rough fall for me with two surgeries and the flu.  I wasn’t sure how we were going to pull it off  but we did [...]

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Childhood Memory

When I was growing up, each of us kids in my family had a special Christmas nite light. This sweet angel was mine. She hasn’t worked for years and I spent some time today trying to get her to work to no avail. I think I need to take her apart and completely rewire her. [...]

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It’s Fall~!

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I love Fall and Halloween. Last October I totally exhausted myself trying to post a different Halloween decoration every day of the month. I didn’t make it but I gave it the ole college try. This October I haven’t posted a single Fall [...]

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August 25th

Today is Rick and I’s 25th wedding anniversary, and our marriage is one of the greatest joys of my life. Even after all these years we still like each other a whole lot and I feel so very fortunate for that. We met when we were 23 years old, both on the rebound from bad [...]

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