When Miss Daisy woke up this morning she immediately took off after a rather large spider she spied on the floor. In her exuberance to pounce on it, the spider took off on all eight legs. The first I knew about it was when I returned from opening up the house and Monty was down […]
Who wears the pants in this family? Apparently who ever gets to them first. While preparing to do some spring painting I looked everywhere for my old work pants, you know, the ones with the hole in the knee and the multicolored paint spatters. The old favorites that I couldn’t bear to see relegated to […]
It’s that time of year again. Time to take a hard look at the accumulation of stuff around the house. I don’t think we have a lot of clutter, I mean, the stuff is stashed in closets and the doors do close, so it’s not really clutter, right? Where to start? I always think garage, […]
Are you familiar with Tom Margenau? He has written the “Social Security and You ” column for national syndication since 1997. His column appears in the Sunday edition of the Arizona Daily Star. I discovered the column several years ago and I look forward to my second cup of coffee with Tom on Sunday. Mr. Margenau […]
I went to an interesting wellness program last week. I enjoyed the two young ladies presenting the program, both were Registered Dietitians and work at Tucson Medical Center, promoting wellness for employees. Call me silly, but when I hear Registered Dietitian, I automatically think of healthy eating and not much else. Apparently many RD’s are […]
Spring here in the desert means wild flowers everywhere, they blanket the desert and also pop up in the yard. Poppies are happy flowers and penstemons are delightful but at the first heat of summer they all shrivel up and look, for all the world, like weeds. Palo Verde trees are all dressed in yellow […]
Monty had carpal tunnel surgery this week. Dr. Siegel is a magician who can do the surgery with just two tiny incisions and a half dozen stitches. The procedure took about twenty minutes, although the prep and anxious waiting was a couple of hours. Monty is good as new and back to playing his beloved […]
When did companies become obsessed with surveys? I have to admit at first it was exciting to think someone actually wanted to know what I thought. That was about 10,000 surveys ago. On a scale of 1 to 10, one being least satisfied, and 10 being euphoric, please answer this brief, twenty question survey. […]
I’ve enjoyed the Reader’s Digest monthly magazine since I was a kid. Magazines were a big deal when I was growing up. Mom subscribed to several of the ‘ladies’ magazines and we always had a copy of the Reader’s Digest laying on the corner table. Monty and I have enjoyed the Reader’s Digest for […]
When we brought Daisy home she was a cute ball of fluff. She has grown from six pounds of fluff to thirty pounds and she is still fluffy. She has endearing curls on her face, but short of using hair gel they won’t stay out of her eyes. Her hair is about four […]