Taking advantage of a weekās vacation, we used some of the time to do the dreaded chore of cleaning up the patio for summer and replanting our pots for warm, by which I mean smoking hot, weather. Mesquite This tree.Ā Isnāt it gorgeous right now?Ā Except.Ā Those yellow flower-dealies (sorry for the technical botany terms) […]
Iām still figuring out the Insta Pot and Iām still figuring out what fiber-rich dishes I can add back into my eating routine.Ā Soup is always high on my list of favorites, so Iām using up that bag of lentils in the pantry and trying out a new recipe. Delish.com has been a reliable recipe […]
Remember in the old days when you would go visit your relatives, and Uncle Bob would get out his slide projector, darken the room and proceed to give you a blow-by-blow travelogue of his recent trip to ___ (fill in the blank)? Well, at the risk of sounding like your Uncle Bob, Iām going to […]
There is a tradition in our family loving all things haunted.Ā My sisters, niece and nephew love to tell ghost stories when we are together.Ā Some of them are actually scary.Ā Some are pretty lame, but it doesnāt stop us. So when DH and I had a chance to stay in the haunted Crescent Hotel […]
Winter is not a season I do. I (barely) do Christmas and then Iām ready for spring. Bring me daffodils and bunnies, please. But magazines, influencers and stores are showing late winter and Valentine dĆ©cor in February. New, fresh spring colors havenāt quite hit yet. And I need a little inspiration, please. So I did […]
If you know me well, you know that donuts are not on my list of things I eat. Ever. As in the past 20 years. They are just too full of fat and sugar. And I can eat six at a time. And never get full. All in all, just a bad food choice for […]
Wow, I took my first business trip in a year to Corpus Christi, Texas. Since I have never visited that city and the weather was nice, I got out as much as I could to explore. I want to share a few things I did after work hours. South Texas Botanical Gardens Now, I donāt […]
We don’t have any large-scale organization projects on the list this year, but we have been taking some tiny bites out of areas that somehow got crazy messed up since our last good clean out. Office Desk I like to think of myself as a neat person. Sort of a clean person without being a […]
Winter is my least favorite season and I do not like to be cold.Ā Hence, our move to Phoenix.Ā But.Ā It IS winter and Iām trying to get through it.Ā Honestly.Ā I have flowers blooming on the patio.Ā Iām out walking or running every day.Ā I even moved my office outdoors for some afternoon sun.Ā […]
I know that sounds a bit like a business briefing.Ā Well, business is my background, you know.Ā Hard to change these stripes.Ā But here we are in the first quarter and Iām making some plans.Ā Not resolutions, mind you, plans and I’ll be sharing over the next week or so. The holidays were used for […]