Due to the cooler evenings and my craving for a substantial dinner, I decided to roast a 4 pound chicken for our meal two nights ago. I mari...

According to a search that I completed on the Internet, 101 submarine movies have been made and viewed by American audiences over the years....

The ghost of Mary Lee Many bloggers , especially those who have been posting for a number of years, have had an opportunity to meet and gre...

1. I am very very tired of hearing how getting an ivy league education makes you an elitist. It makes you (or means your already were) ...

1. Yesterday we put in a three-foot high retaining wall and moved about 15 wheelbarrows full of dirt to the area. I said to my husband tha...

The media seems to be ignoring the statistics and facts on the demographics of the subprime crises perhaps because they are not sexy. But,...

If you look closely you will see two trees (actually two sprouts from an older cherry tree that is growing straight up right next to these t...

This is the second time in a month that our contractor has been blocked from exiting (first time was entering) the lot to work on the pati...

We had saved up a sum of money to put in a patio under our deck this fall and we now realize that was better than leaving it in the market!...

Sunday, an absolutely perfect fall day, was our reward for going to watch our son's band play for the Humane Society Walk for the Anima...

Yesterday I went to a wine festival. I haven't attended one of these in a decade and discovered in my old age that my palate can get q...

A month ago I heard Jim Webb, best selling author, on National Public Radio talk about America's current situation. I liked so much wh...

After much anxiety these past days, I am pretty much against the bailout unless it goes directly to citizens who are losing their houses o...

A long while back I posted a story about the flooding of my house during a tropical storm in this blog entry. This story took place just 1...

My husband was able to take some time off during his business trip to visit South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii. This point is the s...

For those of you who have passports, can you remember the first time you got yours? I can. I was heading out to live in Palau, Micrones...

The fact that my husband is again off to Hawaii means once again I can enjoy a free schedule and alone time. Thus I finished the apples a...

I am trying to stay out of blogging about this election because I am so passionately opinionated and concerned...but Bill has a good blog r...

This weekend we stopped by the Gettysburg National Military Park which has a brand new museum and visitor center, much of it is funded by N...

Hanna must have dumped a lot of rain and not much wind. We don't have a rain gauge, but this storm left far less damage and mess than...