Just three today. Slow week with lots of upheavals and disruptions too boring to write about. The best laid plans of mice and men! – What should have been a regular week turned irregular. We had our first “bad weather” … Continue reading
Category Archives: changes
Is it me or does color matter in clothes?
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During the past month I’ve done the semi-annual switching of the clothing. It’s all in the same closet. I move clothes from the back to the front, but I need to try the new season’s clothes on even if they … Continue reading
Random 5 for November 9, 2025 – Fall, social gatherings, sales, cats, time
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Fall has finally sprung – We are just past prime fall color here but it’s still beautiful. We planted a maple tree at the corner of our deck a few years back and it’s just lovely. We can see our … Continue reading
Random 5 for October 19, 2025 – Restaurants, bloggers, guests, gash, thinking
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Not all change is good change – Our local seafood place changed things around for our visit this week. They eliminated the lunch menu. You must order from the dinner menu. You can get soup and a salad but the … Continue reading
Random 5 for August 31, 2025 – Mornings, holiday emergencies, gas prices, flannel, stink
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Let’s start with a smile! It figures – Long time readers know that I whine about holiday weekend medical illnesses. Emergency care for two-legged or four-legged critters is $$$ normally and extra on holiday weekends. This (Labor Day) weekend it’s … Continue reading
Random 5 for August 24, 2025 – Changes, osteoporosis, clipart, care communities, weather
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You know you are old when – you recognize the location of funeral homes outside of your hometown. I’m on the Facebook page of a large company I worked for a long time ago. I worked there for 25 years … Continue reading
Random 5 for July 27, 2025 – Time, death, new phones, housing, aging
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And it happened again! – We are at the end of July and I swear there were seven days in July and only two were decent weatherwise. It’s been toasty hot here but at least we didn’t have severe storms … Continue reading
Worth remembering and worth understanding the differences among us
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I posted this in 2019 after my brother and sister-in-law were in a bad auto accident. They were 89 at the time. My brother fared well but my SIL was touch and go for a while. It brought out a … Continue reading
Revisiting a post on immigration from 2011
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With all that is going on with immigrants, I am including a story I wrote in 2011 about my grandmother. All my grandparents were immigrants. They came to the US for the same reason people are coming here today, for … Continue reading
Random 5 for June 1, 2025 – Time, weather, cleaning, scams, change
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Happy June! – I don’t know how this is happening, but the year is flying by. May was a busy month for us, it went by fast. I’m hoping June will linger. July is the month that seems to only … Continue reading
Views and Mews by Coffee Kat 