My dear readers….Do you like to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? If you have been following me, you know that I do not need an excuse to celebrate any occasion. I love to make and entertain and well, just plain eat and I certainly don’t need any excuse to do any of that. I have made…
Have you ever heard the old adage….don’t do as I do, but do as I say? That, my dear readers is my disclaimer, although I can say I have corrected a few things in my garage. According to Readers Digest…there are things you should never store in your garage and because I have been on…
Ok, we have all heard this little saying. Supposedly, Benjamin Franklin once said: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” AND….Sir Winston Churchill is credited with another saying: “Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” Sooooo, you may ask, what has that to do with today’s…
As I sit on the Lanai, there is the most wonderful aroma that drifts to me on a gentle breeze. It is hard to describe, but I know it is the beautiful blooms of my gardenia tree that sits just outside my courtyard. The fragrance is hard to describe, but once you smell it…you will…
I never thought of myself as a girly-girl because as a younger child (say from 8-12), I was more tom-boyish. I climbed trees, fished and hunted with my dad. We set traps along the creek bank near our farm house to catch mink and other critters in the winter…. and we checked the traps in…
Folks, dear friends…. If you have been following me for while, you know I am not a fashionista! But I have purchased a few new pieces of clothing that have moved into my closet and said hello! ….move over T-shirts and capri pants….I have arrived! No, I have not been to Paris or to ANY…
OK. I am addicted to ordering online! I admit it. I love when packages arrive because it is just like Christmas in April, or May or June or….you get the drift. And last week, I received this beautiful ceramic strawberry candle basket and when I opened the lid…. Oh-My-Gosh!!!!! The scent of fresh strawberries slowly…
Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego, baby why don’t we go Jamaica, off the Florida Keys There’s a place called Kokomo That’s where you wanna go To get away from it all OK…Truth here! This is not Aruba or Jamaica or even Kokomo…but it is…
Ok, confession time…we were NOT riding the rails with Agatha Christie but you know what a romantic I am and I can only imagine what it would have been like to be on the Orient Express solving murder mysteries from one of my favorite crime sleuths. No, this was a local train…and yes, there was…
I would like to introduce you to Ms. Duck….Ms. Mottled Duck, not to be confused with Ms. Mallard Duck. They do look similar as do the male and female of this particular popular SW Florida species. Folks you know I like my quiet time…my time alone sipping my hot tea, doing a devotional or just…
My dear readers….I want to share a tablescape I put together last year…. because it is getting close to Cinco de Mayo… and that always takes me back to New Mexico. So let’s revisit this post and tablescape. I love the Land of Enchantment, otherwise known as New Mexico, and after living there for several…
Games People Play….seems to almost be a passing fancy! I am talking about card games, Dominoes, Board Games etc. Is too much television to blame…. or is it the more sophisticated games on X Box, Wii, etc? Have we moved on to a different phase of our lives where those types of games played…