A couple of years ago we made our first trip to Alaska. We had a great time with Insight Tours, we saw several small villages and visited a kennel to meet the dogs and an Ititarod champion. We spent a couple of days at Denali National Park, it was cloudy the days we were […]
It’s been a party atmosphere here. Folks come by the house and visit for a bit and leave with a treasure tucked under their arm. Our first new friend is Laura, she and her husband just moved here from New York. I discovered Laura on the Next Door site. Her post about wanting to share […]
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 wheelbarrow with a broken handle, a bucket with a hole in it, […]
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 about the story. I love Tucson, I’ve been here over […]
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 it used to be. Folks tend to lament they don’t have the […]
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 the BBC about some rules we know without really knowing them. (the best kind) Why do we say tick tock and not […]
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 to me about the website. For instance, I know when folks click in to see what’s happening, or browse, […]
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? But like Johnny Cash, on his long dusty road, we’ve been everywhere, Winnemucca, Bald […]
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. We’ve been friends since we met in the 1980’s. […]
Monty and I have lived in what I affectionately 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 overlooking the city might have drawn our neighbors to their homes, but […]