It is 'late by my standards' for a Friday morning, and yet all of the rest of my family is still in bed. So I get to blog in peace, ...

Well, I have Internet access as long as my daughter's laptop is here---until Monday. The condo has wireless. What luxury! My laptop is t...

I don't know why it is, but when we go somewhere by car, I go crazy with the packing. I will even have a washer dryer at the place, but ...

Virgninia Bluebells Egg Saturday morning early in the city Is a jungle concert of bird song, Demanding and rhythmic High and energetic and p...

Colleen has a little thing going called "13 Thursday." I am such an independent cuss that I cannot be confined to such a stric...

My sister's visit was all too brief. She stayed with friends in Virginia (near 'Scooter' L's house) so you know it was in a...

First we blow out the candles and then we wear the cake! This is fun!

There were lots of birthdays last week it seems including Peruby's daughter. My grandson ALSO turned one on the fifth of April! I am go...

I apologize as I realize at least some part of the million blogging folks cannot contain their digital addiction leading to total digital ab...

Highlights of the retirement party: 60 people and dozens of others on travel or elsewhere that came by earlier in the day to say they were s...

This photo could represent interracial friendship and love or overcrowding due to population growth or problems due to global warming and ac...

I live in the heart of the city with buses, mass transit and high rises that are a few hundred feet from my apartment door. Yet the brillian...

On the drive down, the Bradford pears that have been planted at every landscape junction in the mall parking lots were in peak bloom wi...

Another milestone? Pretty soon my backyard will be full of them. A week from this coming Monday is my husband's last day at work. He is...

We met at noon downtown near the hotels and restaurants. I was the first to get there. The weather was cold but the wind was gentle. Sidewal...

I have been super busy this week and don't even have time to think of something to post. I have been in meetings of one kind or another...

I am on a rant today. What set me off was a traffic light, a new traffic light that was installed to allow pedestrians to cross safely on a...

I was tasked to list four of my jobs in a meme a while ago. I listed #1 here . Being the anal-retentive that I am, I am doing them in chro...

I spent Saturday evening babysitting that grandson of mine. Xman was in his usual crazy-man endless-energy form. I arrived early and kept hi...