I hope my kids have kids.  And no, this is NOT a hint although I am for­ever drop­ping hints. Well, maybe they aren’t exactly hints.…but I really, really hope they have kids. Why?  Because I want them to turn out like mine have. I just fin­ished read­ing their blogs, as I do every­day, whether they […]

Well I am con­nected to the world web again although my com­puter has a few weird traits going on which my son will soon fix. Guess it doesn’t like being moved to a new local. My hus­band finally put together my new com­puter desk that he bought me LAST year for my birth­day (Feb­ru­ary) and […]

It is snow­ing, blow­ing, sleet­ing, nasty. We have had a very nice day read­ing, nap­ping, eat­ing, TV watch­ing. Thank good­ness for heat and elec­tric­ity!Safe jour­ney home from Louisville kid­dos. Am send­ing an army of angels to guide you in.I will be off this com­puter for a while as the remodel requires a tem­po­rary move and […]

Going from here to there today I passed a LOT of trucks. All but two had dri­vers using their cell phones. Does this bother any­one but me?Doing a remodel of our upstairs 100 year old home. To attempt to describe the lay­ers of really old wall­pa­per that was under the paneling.…whoo.…can’t…you can proably smell it […]

Hello once again from the nether­lands of Iowa. The “soon to be all dead peren­nial plants” Iowa because this darn weather has them so con­fused they don’t know whether to bloom or sleep. I fore­cast a bad spring for them. Nice weather for us. Bad for them. Cherry blos­soms are bloom­ing in Wash­ing­ton for heavens […]