~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There’s a day we dread on our calendar. No, it’s not dental appointment day. It’s when my husband and I have to flip our mattress over in what I call The Mattress Maintenance Program. Sleeping well is essential for good health and there are rituals involved to…
=======================@======================= The main reason to have children is so that they can remind you what an old fart you are. Last Christmas I bought my husband a boxed set of DVDs of the TV show Northern Exposure. It took us a year to watch all six seasons. Then we loaned…
It might have been Scar from The Lion King who said/sang “Be Prepared”, but it is also the motto of The Boy Scouts of America. I was a Girl Scout for about three months. I think their motto back then was “We have cookies.” I think they should have been…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ok, it’s the second week of January and I have not made any resolutions. After reading several articles about the looming year, it seems my strategy might be in vogue. Resolutions are passe. Lists are out of fashion. Wanting to accomplish something might be better accomplished by not focusing…
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~~~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Friends contacted us the week before Christmas to let us know they would like to stop by the Hobbit House on their way from one destination to another. We were delighted. We visited them during the summer in a similar scenario. I made bagels and my husband…