The girls and I are sitting on the bed in my room; Ella Bella is panting softly on the floor, which right now is half beautiful new wood laminate flooring and half concrete stained from decades of ugly carpet. We are watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 while Steve cuts the grass. It is Sunday […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
First, two caveats here: 1. these pictures are for the most part, terrible. My iPhone picture-taking skills are hit or miss, heavy on the miss. But, it’s nice to have around and I think there is value even in a bad picture. and 2. My house is a disaster – I’m sharing these pictures even […]
One of my goals for this summer is to go through 15,000 (yes, you read that right) pictures, pick the ones on I want to keep and back them up on-line, and try and document the stories behind them in some shape or form. That shape or form may be blogging or scrapbooking or […]
I hope Heaven has lemon trees because my daddy would surely love these Lemon Brownies. I know that I do! I love brownies; truly, I think most of the time I’d rather have them than cake. Something about their texture – cakey and gooey all at the same time. And, I love citrus […]
Our beach is a national park. It’s always been a national park, I think, but when I first moved here, there was no entrance fee and it was open all the time. As the years have passed, more and more restrictions have appeared. Now, the park is open from 8:00 a.m. to […]