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This is Daisy. She’s a mid-size full-blood Yorkshire Terrier with all the grit and guts of her breed. Back when the economy was good, I took my first full check that was not designated toward a bill and bought her. She was a tiny, tiny...

I’ve been busy — still unpacking and cleaning and working and, well doing all the things I have to do. If I don’t do them myself, then they kind of don’t get done….. That means I haven’t been able to post for a few days....

Sometime ago my husband finally got around to putting up my clothes line. Knowing that the kids wouldn’t want to help, we came up with the idea of telling them that Dad was building a solar dryer and they were going to be the helpers....

KATV local news is the only local news station that we watch regularly. We’ve seen lots of change over the years, newbies that have done well and moved on, newbies that have disappeared off the radar and then those newbies that have become our friends....

Our dog (boxer/lab spoiled dog) got loose last night. Normally, Mr. Bear stays out side on a run all day and comes into sleep at night. (My husband and daughter are die hard animal lovers). Last night sometime after I fed Mr. Bear, he got...

We’ve not been running the central heat and air for at least a month. While it has been a little warm in the afternoons, the mornings have been downright chilly. Our daughter told me the other day that she would like a heater in her...

The reason for today’s pity party is (drum roll) I forgot my husband’s birthday. He called me at work around mid-morning to ask me today’s date. Thinking he wasn’t near a calendar, I glanced at my calendar and said today’s uhhh your birthday. To my...

A few days ago my husband asked me where all the towels and washcloths were located. I told him I thought we had put up all the laundry so they should be in the cabinet. He told me that there were only a handful in...

Speaking of full-service stations….. When I started attending college back in the late 80’s full-service stations were everywhere. Not once, did I worry about my tires, water or oil being low because I went to a full-service station and they checked those items for me....

Sunday afternoon I drove to Rison, AR to work on a project. Being me, I didn’t check my gas tank before I left. By the time I reached Rison, I was beginning to wonder if I would pass a Shell station before running out of...

We all know somebody that knows everybody. Well, the person I know like that is my younger sister Tammy. She’s known everybody since she was at least 6 years old. After our dad was elected to pastor the church in De Queen and before we...

Have you ever done something so incredibly stupid or clumsy that you really didn’t want anybody to know and yet you felt compelled to tell about it anyhow? I was in my early twenties when I enrolled at HSU. Although beauty wasn’t in my future,...

During my lifetime, bumpers used to be made of durable metal. You could hit all kinds of things and never damage the bumper on the car. Today car bumpers are merely tools used to hide the nuts and bolts. They are easily damaged and expensive...

Moving, yet again. I hate moving. I hate packing. I hate unpacking. I hate cleaning so I can move in and still having to clean so I can move out. I hate everything to do with moving except moving out of bug village. This time...