For Boxing Day, I went to IKEA today for some overdue furniture shopping. I have cardboard boxes (it’s a cheap box tie-in, sorry), instead of bookshelves, and I am determined to have all of my book friends out and happy by year’s end. The shopping was fine and I spent money, yadda yadda yadda… but [...]
Read the rest of For the love of lox
Thanks, Jette, Chip and esteemed panel. This entry is a Holidailies “Best of…” In other blogs, at other times, I have always promised to write about Threadgill’s, and tonight’s the night. Way way back in the 70s, when both my middle brother (four years older than me) and I lived at home, we became completely [...]
Read the rest of Chicken Fried Steak For Christmas
Tonight is the choir social – first Monday of every month is our social wherein we make merry after rehearsal. I am one of the volunteers taking food (others bring wine! yay!). So first with the singing and then with the eating! In Hungary last month, I ate something amazing, and I’m trying to replicate [...]
Read the rest of Delicious
The results of my weekend “away” from the keyboard are in. We have outdoor lighting, we went to the Hanging of the Greens and sang, and the living room is dusted, sorted and ready for the big drama of a tree. (Not one green was hung; they are all pre-hung these days. Probably some lawyer [...]
Read the rest of Lighting, Music, Sets, Props