The Downsizing Project

Monty has been cleaning and rearranging the garage and is now tackling the storage shed on our back lot.  He is sorting into separate piles of Toss out, Goodwill and OMG would you look at that. The first pile is the usual: a wheel barrow…

We're Moving

You might have read the blog post entitled January 1949, that’s when the Johnson family arrived in Tucson.  I tell people we arrived in a covered wagon and had to fight dinosaurs all the way from Chicago. Some people appear to be skeptical…

A Little Love

Every once in a while I hear people refer to themselves as dumb because the made they made a mistake or had trouble figuring something out.  Maybe they describe their hearing as deaf as a post, or complain because their memory isn’t what…

Tock - Tick ~ Rules

While the Oxford English Dictionary contains a quarter of a million entries. It is not only the words that can be confusing but the flow of each sentence.  I read a fun article from BBC about some rules we know without really knowing them.…

Winner!

Are you the winner, viewer number 14,000? This week surpassed 14,000 views on www.carriebonello.com.  I could offer number 14,000 a fabulous prize but I don’t know who you are. I enjoy the administrative background information that comes…

Fall 2021

The brownies are safely stored in the oven for travel, I can hear Willie Nelson singing On The Road Again, and we are off on another adventure. The destination is Colorado, I know what you’re thinking don’t those folks go anywhere else? …

Goodbye Friend

Once in a while, someone comes along, someone who just naturally makes everyone feel a little happier, a little more alive to life.  Suzette has been that someone to me. She has given me a new perspective on a lot of things - including myself.…

Wild Kingdom

Monty and I have lived in what I affectionally call the ‘toe hills’ of the Santa Catalina Mountains for about twenty-five years. The foothills you hear about, the high rent district, is located to the north and west of us. The higher views…

Gone Fishing

We spent a delightful long weekend at Big Lake in the White Mountains of Arizona with our good friends Susie and Bob.  Susie booked a double camping site and we snuggled their truck and trailer and our motorhome right into the grove of aspens,…

Love the Eagles

On our recent trip to Colorado we drove up to Grand Mesa, one of the mountains that surround Grand Junction.  Whenever we visit Colorado there is a lot of reminiscing going back to Monty's boyhood growing up in Grand Junction.  He's mentioned…