This morning I took this picture and then I looked at the picture and it made me smile. I thought . . it will be hard to even describe how happy this makes me but I will try. Many of you remember Speck. He was my baby for so many years! He loved sitting next to me in my chair. I would sit and knit and any time he thought I was going to be sitting down, he was in my chair waiting for me to ...
Soft Amaretti Cookies
Soft Amaretti Cookies are some of my favorites. Way back when I worked in Lake Charles, there was a bakery way too close to our office and they made these cookies. I loved them and stopped by there way too often. I started making them myself but then stopped. I don't remember when or why I stopped making them but a year or so ago, a neighbor who knows I love to cook, came by and gave me two ...
Procrastination
Some days I feel like I have zero self-control. Other days, I feel like I don't need to be so rigid with myself and my plans. For my weekly menus, it really doesn't matter what happens, we're having what's on the menu. No changing it! If I go to the grocery store with a list, there's nothing coming home with me that isn't on that list. If I see something I think I might want to try, I'll put it on ...
Boiled Crawfish & Family Time
Chad, Nicole and Addie came down today and we boiled crawfish. Even with just living an hour from them, I don't feel like I get to see them enough. Do any parents get to see their adult children enough? Probably not. There's a guy, The Bayou Bandit, who goes to Louisiana pretty much every week and brings back a trailer full of seafood, sausage and other Cajun foods. He sets up in parking lots ...
The New Linen Storage System
First, thank you responding on the "Things to Buy" post. Good ideas mentioned in those - about the flowers too. The new bins for storing the linen arrived yesterday, a day early. I had already been rolling some of the linen up on the comic book boards so I immediately got started adding the linen to the tubs. This one bin is just for XJu linen. For at least three years, I was in her ...
Adding a Flower Garden
Flowers have never had much priority in my gardens. I love growing fruits and vegetables but I also love pretty flowers. There are only so many hours in a day and the vegetable garden takes about all the energy I can muster but yesterday I was wishing for a few flowers and decided to make myself a little flower garden. Kinda out in the middle of the yard are these two 4 x 8 raised beds. I ...