Entries by Carrie Bonello

Lunch Time

Most of you know me and maybe met my better half, Monty.  If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting him, I will tell you he is smart, funny, focused and definitely the better half.  We are joined at the hip and do almost everything together.  We will both tell you our lives are richer […]

Miss Daisy’s 1st Birthday

Miss Daisy is celebrating her first birthday this week.  It is hard to believe, it was just last fall we were up in Washington picking up our little bundle of fluff.  As the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun.  Daisy has turned out to be the perfect fun size.   Knee high […]

Hotter Than . . .

Hotter than a pepper sprout – thanks Johnny and June  Hot as H-E double toothpicks – we said this growing up,  it was like      swearing and we giggled.  It’s a dry heat, – then some smart ass will say, ‘Yeah but so’s an oven but,  I don’t want to live in one’ Hot […]

Journey’s End (Part 3)

A river runs through it; that can be said of all of our favorite places. In Durango, it’s the Animas, in Missoula, the Clark Fork meanders through town, the Deschutes River in Bend is a playground for the locals, and in Grand Junction, it’s the mighty Colorado River.  Of course in Tucson we have the […]

Open Road Part 2

Arriving in  Colorado, is like stepping into another world.  People watching is a full time activity here, the first thing you notice is everyone wears a backpack in Colorado, even grannie. I’m never quite sure if it is the changeable weather that is the need for a backpack or simply that so many people walk, […]

Summer 2019 Part 1

On the Road Again, not only one of our favorite songs, but our favorite activity.  Miss Daisy seem pretty happy about the traveling thing.  First she gets to sit on mom’s lap while we travel down the road and then at night she manages to snag the prime spot in the bed, right between her […]

What’s on Your Nightstand?

  I just finished the most delightful book that’s come my way in a long time, ‘City of Flickering Light’ written by Juliette Fay.  This book wasn’t on the Express Shelf, where the best sellers are waiting, but back in a stack of nondescript books waiting to be discovered.  Juliette Fay has created a fascinating […]

The Senior Village

The cast of characters in this story include, my sister Marilyn, 89, Nat, 90, Biddy, 93, and the kid Brent 72. Bit parts are played by Jim, Mary, and Buddy.  The names have not been changed-no sense spoiling their fun now. Fellowship Square is a large independent living complex for seniors, on Tucson’s Eastside.  The […]

How’s My Driving?

  I was fifteen when my future husband, himself a teenager, taught me to drive his ’57 Chevy.  The day I turned sixteen I passed the driver’s test, even parallel parked successfully and proudly received my first drivers license.  That was a mere 60 years ago.     I remember being a confident, even cocky, […]

Voila a Patio!

  Several years ago Monty and I designed a winding path from the driveway to the front door. (you can see it in the distance) We hauled white rocks from the arroyo behind our house for a border and filled the walkways with gravel, it looked nice and I  liked the way it meandered thru the desert […]