Lucky Dorito

We came.

We saw.

We conquered.
And now….
we head home (with over 1200 photos).

When we purchased our split-level home five years ago, we had one large den – in addition to our living room.  We decided to build a wall to make two rooms out of that one large one… a smaller den, plus a bedroom. You might remember in 2008 I posted pics of that bedroom, which [...]

Here’s a hint.
(And dontcha love those snazzy old sheets I used to protect the couch so it didn’t end up like my legs?)

Or…. in my case…. it’s not really a beast. More of a seriously cute and colorful caterpillar. And I was more in the mouth than the belly. But…. you get the point.

I had the sudden and random urge to crawl in the caterpillar when Shannon and I dropped off some of  RAoK on her birthday [...]

I made a decision that I was not going to blog about the things that are in my mind…only because it would be really ugly. And rather unnecessary.
I mean, really…. you don’t need to hear about work issues – the way our esteemed employer decided to take our bonuses away last year because we’d gone [...]

Guess what?!
I’m in Texas to visit my sweet friend, Shannon, for her birthday. We’ve been planning this trip for a while but…..she didn’t realize that I was in cahoots with a few of her Texas friends to arrive a day earlier than she expected and be a part of throwing her a surprise 40th birthday [...]

When I was a little girl, my mom told me that these giant walls of rock that were cut out for the roads to go through were actually stair steps for the Jolly Green Giant to use. (This particular picture is just one step, whereas sometimes the steps are two or three levels high, cut [...]

On this day seventy-two years ago, February 24th, 1938, my dad was born.

He is gone, but not forgotten.