August 2011

Artful Chocolates in Granbury

August 31, 2011

If you go to Granbury, Texas you must take a cooler with ice! I’m telling you this as your friend, because you are going to see The Art of Chocolate Shoppe and want to bring home some of their delightful specialties! In this Texas heat, it won’t go far. Have you ever tried to suck [...]

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Time For A Change

August 30, 2011

I went to my local Sonic Drive In to get what passes for “lunch” around here. The carhop rolled on her skates to my window. If you believe the Sonic website, she was “like an eight-wheeled human food chariot” delivering my food “with a side of smiles.” She must have left the smiles on the [...]

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Dear Ellen Degeneres, You Steered Me Wrong!

August 24, 2011

Dear Ellen Degeneres, I am so disappointed in you! After Oprah left, I thought you would be the “new guru,” telling all of us out in television viewer land how we should think and what we should do. The truth is that you were always my guru; I admit I have a girl crush on [...]

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Arché Winery. A Good Beginning.

August 22, 2011

When one thinks of regions that produce “fine wine,” I don’t think that North Texas is the first place to pop into one’s head. Pity the unenlightened! You who scoff, put a cork in it! I heard it through the grapevine that there are a number of good wineries in my “stomping ground;” Arché Winery [...]

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“We Thought You Was A Toad!”

August 21, 2011

I cannot look at a toad now without thinking of the movie O, Brother, Where Art Thou? and the line that Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) whispered to Pete (John Turturro): “We thought you was a toad!” If you haven’t seen the movie, I know you think I’m crazy to think that’s a funny line. However, [...]

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Share A Square Assembly Begins

August 18, 2011

Patience is not one of my virtues, I’m afraid. I never can wait to get started on a new project. That’s why I am already assembling afghans for Share A Square while I wait for the remainder of the crocheted squares to arrive. I’m putting together “half-afghans” (5 in the last week) until I get [...]

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Apron Strings

August 17, 2011

I learned a long time ago that you don’t fry bacon nekkid! I’m a quick study like that … my mind just sizzles. So will your skin, if you decide you have to learn that truth for yourself. I suppose that’s why my grandmother always wore an apron when she cooked. Do any of y’all [...]

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Ghost Tour of Galveston, Plan B

August 14, 2011

It wasn’t quite what I expected. We had gone to Galveston hoping to take the two new haunted tours offered by Ghost Tours of Galveston. I had gone on one of their tours before, and I needed a ghost story “fix.” We planned on visiting other sites while we were there. I wanted to eat [...]

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Less Like The Hummingbirds

August 13, 2011

He was close enough that I could almost reach out and touch him! That hummingbird hovered near me, his wings a blur, as I sat on my porch pondering the day ahead. He chirped at me! I know that you probably think that hummingbirds hum, but they don’t … they chirp (if you don’t believe [...]

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Another Stinking Problem

August 9, 2011

Somebody save me! Pepé Le Pew has taken up residence under my back porch! He has hunkered down under the deck near my fountain, and he’s lurking there waiting to meet me face-to-face. Although I caught a whiff of his perfume several mornings ago, I thought he was just passing through. I didn’t have a [...]

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Envy Me. I Had A Facial At Massage Envy.

August 5, 2011

My face feels as smooth as a baby’s bottom since I went for a facial at Massage Envy in Corinth. If you have never had a facial before, I’m not going to lie to you — there is a part of the process that hurts like Thunder! But, it’s like the pain of childbirth: you [...]

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750 Words. A Daily Brain Dump

August 3, 2011

“You should write your 750 words today,” the e-mail says. It is the first item to come into my inbox each morning from the website 750words.com. I signed up to receive it, so I have no one to blame but myself for this insidious little note. Although I don’t like anyone telling me what to [...]

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