Category: Family

We girls are on our own.  Since my dear husband has found employment in the Big City, he and Ozzie will live away during the week.  Sophie and I are fending for ourselves.  Our first step was to get some beauty treatments.  Sophie went to the doggie beauty salon and I bought a home waxing […]

Time for some R & R.  My husband, Ozzie, and I are going to visit my sister Andrea and her husband Rick up in Granite Bay.  That is my choice of destination when things have just been a bit too much.  Which has been the case lately.  I can always rest and reflect and collect […]

istockphoto Our sewing retreat was kind of a mixed bag this weekend.  When we arrived, Andrea had margaritas chilling for us, and had made the most delicious gazpacho I have ever had.  She also threw together a couple of tomato basil pizzas that we nibbled on.  It was the perfect food for the warm temperature–which […]

What amazing and supportive comments I have had from you dear friends this week.  It is quite obvious I am not alone in dealing with rude customers and trying to make a go of it in this tough economy.   Thank you all for your thoughts and the time it took you to respond to […]

My favorite memories of celebrating the Fourth of July as a kid certainly involved family reunions, great food, and staying up late to watch fireworks over Belleville Lake.  But the BEST thing about the Fourth was getting to hold a sparkler.  How I loved those silly things.  Way into my teen aged years.  I bet […]

Remember my post from last Friday?  The one with the picture of the plum blossoms, and me bragging about how spring was here already in sunny California?  La de da and hurray for me.  Well check it out. My son lives 100 miles south of us, in a town called Santa Margarita, right on the […]