Looping another 2200 miles!
By August 25, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

Looping another 2200 miles!

Note:  My friend, Mary, is a “Looper” and she is going to share her adventures with the rest of us. This is the second installment of several as she “loops” the Eastern United States  in the Proud Mary accompanied by her husband, Jim, and  Walter, their intrepid Cairn terrier.  She has taken some wonderful photos […]

Hogg Heaven!
By August 4, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

Hogg Heaven!

For decades, Houston children have laughed and delightedly mocked the Hogg family girls: Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg.
Who would name their children thus?

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The First Thousand Miles of The Loop
By June 7, 2015 3 Comments Read More →

The First Thousand Miles of The Loop

Note:  My friend, Mary, is a “Looper” and she is going to share her adventures with the rest of us. This is the second installment of many as she “loops” the Eastern United States  in the Proud Mary accompanied by her husband, Jim, and  Walter, their intrepid Cairn terrier.  She has taken some wonderful photos […]

A D-Day Tribute: The Longest Day
By May 5, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

A D-Day Tribute: The Longest Day

 Note: Reprinting this from last year, remembering D-Day. Every year we recognize in some increasingly trivial way  the  incredible victory of the Normandy beach landings in France  on June 6, 1944.  D-Day changed the course of  WWII and certainly the course of our history. When I visited the memorial a few years ago, I was […]

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By April 13, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

LOOPING ?

Note:  My friend, Mary, is a “Looper” and she is going to share her adventures with the rest of us. This is the first installment of many as she “loops” the Eastern United States  in the Proud Mary accompanied by her husband, Jim, and  Walter, their intrepid Cairn terrier. INTRO TO LOOPING,  By Mary For […]

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By March 17, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

Asparagus: Only for a Patient Gardener

**(This Post is written by my friend, Mary.  More info about her at the end.)**     Asparagus is one of America’s favorite early spring vegetables and is very easy to grow . . . if you are patient. It takes 2 to 3 years to establish but the plant can be productive up to 20 years, […]

Edelweiss
By February 23, 2015 2 Comments Read More →

Edelweiss

The Sunday night Oscars paid tribute to The Sound of Music‘s 50th anniversary, and it was wonderful to see the very gracefully aged Julie Andrews and to hear her distinctive clipped English again. Traveling through Austria recently, everyone in our party was all Gaga about The Sound of Music.  Oohs and ahs about Maria and […]

By February 17, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

Play It Again, Please

Two Great Oldies These two movies have been replaying again on several of the channels lately, and they are two favorites.  I’ll pass them on to you. Enemy  of the State (1998) One of the amazing things about this movie is that it was made about 16 years ago…it’s all about government surveillance gone amuck, […]

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By February 11, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

Repurposed Vegetables*

I sometimes watch Ina Garten, television’s Barefoot Contessa, and she has me sold on vegetables. She’s an interesting person. She worked for Presidents Ford and Carter writing nuclear energy policy, and she is married to Jeffery Garten, a professor at Yale and author of several books.  A lot of her cooking show episodes are set […]

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Frankly, my dear, I DO give a damn!
By January 8, 2015 0 Comments Read More →

Frankly, my dear, I DO give a damn!

I just detest this age of “political correctness” our world is stuck in. So many daily examples in our newspapers,on  talk shows, FB, Twitter, ETC.  Everyone has to be so careful with wording, so thorough in giving acknowledgements to all who might possibly be offended, that plain straight talk can be dangerous to one’s reputation […]

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