The Saga of the Butterfly Bush Continues…

| January 31, 2012

Alternate post title: He Did It To Me Again. The butterfly bush (or as my husband refers to it… “that butterfly monster”) turned out to be the fastest growing, most furiously blooming plant I have ever encountered. It smells wonderful, attracts butterflies by the hundreds through the spring/summer but has to be trimmed back several [...]

Grid Thoughts

| January 21, 2012

Are there cheap electricity companies in Texas? Do people in Texas have a choice over their electric companies? Do you have a choice in electric companies where you live? I don’t know why this interests me or piques my curiosity. I can only say that it is a completely new thought for me because here [...]

Celebrating Friday… by unloading a little.

| January 20, 2012

I cannot stand clicking on a video of a PREVIEW of an upcoming episode of a show I watch only to find a commercial before the preview. A PREVIEW is a COMMERCIAL. So now, we have commercials FOR commercials? This sends me into whirlwinds of pissed off that I can’t even begin to describe. For [...]

11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11…

| November 11, 2011

11/11/11 – time for a list of 11 things!!! 1. Today I am making a batch of raw, kale chips for the first time. 2. It’s chilly but not too chilly so tonight we are going to enjoy some grilled tri-tip around a cozy fire on the back patio. 3. Along with the tri-tip I’m [...]

Commercials For Commercials.

| November 5, 2011

I’ve said it before and I will say it again… Commercials for commercials will be the end of the universe as we know it. I’ve ranted about this before, okay, I’ve used a lot of expletives to express my rage and insanity displeasure at having to sit through a 30 second commercial to… drum roll… [...]