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Thanksgiving Anarchists
That would be us. One, a born and bred American round the age of “the new forty”, the other an adopted citizen ‘proximately “the new fifty” and neither of us likes turkey. Not enough of a dislike to say we wouldn’t eat it if it was the last meal on earth…but close. One was raised [...]
Lest We Forget-Remembrance Day
On the 11th. hour of the 11th. day of the 11th. month, 1918, an armistice was signed ending the Great War…’the war to end all wars’. Somewhere around my tenth birthday…ten years after another world war had been fought was when, in a classroom, I had to sit and ponder ‘the war to end all wars’. [...]
What Fresh Hell Is This?
Nah…nothing to do with elections or the weather we enjoyed on the DelMarVa Peninsula (and I really did enjoy the weather!). It was all down to Bella…the aforementioned black cat nobody seemed to want except us. Well…okay, I wasn’t thrilled when my other half would bring her home for weekends, promote all her excellent qualities, [...]
Smart Car Was a Smart Move
And it’s so much fun! We’ve had the little yellow Bee (Smart For Two Passion) long enough, now, to offer a review and I have to say it’s joy in which to both drive and ride. She continues to generate much interest, many “thumbs up”, happy grins…and only one grimace…from passers-by and onlookers. Have to confess that this is half [...]
Green Hornet
Nope…not the radio serial or the comic book. But, due to my then husband’s love of both this was what we named our very first, brand new specially ordered car…an AMC Hornet Sportabout. Naturally enough it was green…bright emerald with a small metallic flake. We were living on Guam at the time, within a few months [...]
Guisin’ on Hallowe’en
“Needin’ ony guisers?” we’d ask the tenant of the house. Three or four of us kids…none recognisable (or so we thought!) in our Hallowe’en dress-up. Most would say “Aye, right…c’m in…” and we’d enter the house. Then we’d stand there, a bit awkward, pushing and shoving each other to determine who would begin the party pieces [...]
Prisoners + Dogs
Probably one of the best news items I’ve seen in a long time (CBS Evening News). They profiled a prison…perhaps more than one…which takes shelter dogs to prisons for training and rehabiliation by the inmates. From what was shown, seems like the pups do as much rehabilitating as they, themselves, get. Training over they then are ready [...]
Beautiful Day!
Isn’t it though? Not a day at the beach, for sure…no gentle sea breeze but a hard wind that doesn’t just whiff away the cobwebs of one’s mind but whips them around in a knock-down-drag-out to fling them like mini frisbees, landing who knows where. Rain at times…from just a spitter to a downpour. And cold [...]
Rainy Afternoon at the DVR
Okay…so maybe it should read “movies” though not quite, for us. I rarely go to movies…used to rent videos/DVD’s for the weekends. All the comforts of home, even most of those found at the cinema. One, costs less to see the movie; fresh pot of coffee brewed, fridge full of water, soda, Gatorade, beer (Beer?? Oops, [...]
Didn’t I say….??
Yes…she’s here and not going anywhere, now…not even her lovely, home-y crate with toys, cozy bed and people fawning over her all day long (except no-one wanted her permanently). That would be the black kitty mentioned in an earlier blog…only now, of course, she has a ‘real’ name. Bellanotte…Bella for short and convenience when she [...]
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