View From the Hiking Trail:
Mood Reading: ZZZ’s (I know it’s just a piddly hour difference – but this daylight savings thing is kicking my butt. (I hate waking up when it’s dark – and often just don’t!)
There are two kinds of people in this world: dog-lovers and everyone else.
It’s not that I don’t like those in the latter category, on the contrary. I Read the rest of this entry »
View from the basket at Home Depot:
Mood Reading: ZZZZ’s (slept pretty well after gardening all day and staying up past my normal bedtime to watch the finale of “Mr. Selfridge” on PBS)
Okay, Okay! I know it’s been weeks since I posted my last blog and I am thrilled several of you have apparently noticed and told me so. I owe you an explanation – and I wish I had a good reason. But I don’t. The truth is…I have several. For anyone following this space regularly, you know (or have figured out) that I’m normally a somewhat chirpy, sarcastic, sometimes witty (if it’s a good day,) mostly upbeat person with a wise ass streak that matches my girth. Several things contribute to what I like to call my “sassy” mood…namely the amount of sleep I’ve had the night before, morning caffeine, evening Sauvignon Blanc, or the reverse of those if it’s been a particularly rough week. Read the rest of this entry »
Weather Today: Sunny, warming, slightly breezy (good day to get outside and dig in the dirt!)
View ‘from the front porch’:
Mood Reading: ZZZZ’s (slept in this morning – yum – but after a little caffeine and view of the sunshine, have an inexplicable urge to clean out the linen closet – perhaps spring has sprung after all!)
It was all over the morning shows this morning. Not that I regularly watch them mind you, just this morning, ahem… to catch up on the news, and world events, and uh… stock market stats etc. Anyway, I just happened to catch this story that apparently ran in the New York Times about celebrity chefs NOT writing their own cookbooks – using ghostwriters instead. It was all over GMA and The Today show anyway. (Alright, so C-span isn’t part of my morning repertoire.) Read the rest of this entry »
From the Kitchen Counter... 