Writing our blog…What it takes…What it does for us…What our readers mean to us…The interesting and the mundane…
Lizard in the house. Writing this blog began on March 15, 2012, almost 18 months ago. You can read the first post...
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Oh, oh, packages didn’t arrive!…Are we running out of time?…
The four of six boxes we received from the pharmaceutical company. We're awaiting the two missing boxes, hopefully to arrive or be...
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Housekeeping for upcoming travel…
Definitely, not as much "stuff" on the bed when we originally packed almost a year ago. Two weeks from today, we'll...
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Tom’s online football experience…
The haze in the hills continues day after day with the high humidity. After signing up at NFL.com in order to watch...
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Updates and tidbits…Fun photos!…
A photo from guests staying at our upcoming rental house in South Africa. Doing laundry takes on a whole new meaning!...
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Winning Powerball…What would we do?…
Santina brought us more vegetables when arriving to clean the house on Friday that we'll be using tonight in our homemade taco salads (minus the shells). No, we...
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Bats or just batty…
Common pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, common house bat, a much better photo I took from Wikipedia. I guess this is nothing compared to...
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Does the fire at the Nairobi airport have an effect upcoming flight to Kenya?
As reported in the today's news, a fire at Kenya's main airport in Nairobi has shut down the airport. Watching the news on...
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Pescia, referred to as “Little Italy,” with video and photos…Hot today in Pescia…Over 100 degrees F (C38 degrees)…
The young helpful butcher as he was preparing our meat who easily understood when I asked him to cut the bacon thicker, stating...
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Typical day in the life…
The blue in this photo is a small kiddy pool on the shared patio next door. We don't use that area...
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