Revisiting Oranges: My Journey to Appreciating the Fruit
Last week, my reticular activating system (RAS) was triggered by a tree with orange flowers.
Keep readingFall Update
Updates on the bread maker, cooking, enjoying the fall season, and a video of me decorating my home for fall (minimalist style).
Keep readingGetting Excited about Fall
I don’t care if it’s cliché for people to choose fall as their favorite season. It’s mine too and I’m going to talk about.
Keep readingBay Area to Lake Tahoe and Back
I hadn’t been to Lake Tahoe in about a decade, even though it’s only around three to four hours from my house. The thing is, I didn’t have any good memories of the place. Let’s just say I could have lived the entire rest of my life without ever going back. But, this is where I was picking my daughter up from my mother. After returning home from…
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My 2000 Mile Road Trip
As I mentioned in my last post, I was inspired to redecorate my home earlier this year. During that time, I was inspired to purchase a small vase from a small garden center in Ontario, Oregon (the only place I could find it). The only issue was that they could not ship the item and suggested I not buy the vase unless I planned to take a “road…
Keep readingInspired to Redecorate
In May, after weeks of frustration with my overall life experience, my inner voice, higher self, or God, if you will, hit me with the following headline, “You can’t attract wealth in this house.” I hadn’t even poured my morning cup of coffee. I was like, “Rude, but okay.” It seemed that with that one statement, my eyes were opened to the fact that I have raised four…
Keep readingJan 2021-Garden update and edibles
I wasn’t sure if I would keep this blog going, but it looks like I am, –though it’s taken me over five months to publish a new post-my bad. But I have plenty of content because 2021 has done a number on this chick so far. So let me begin this past due post with a recap… First, the familiar garden update. At this time my back was…
Keep readingMy final post of 2020!
Click here to listen to this post. I am aware that this post is overdue but when you read what has been going on, you’ll forgive my tardiness. Early in December, while searching high and low for hot rollers for my daughter, we discovered mold in our downstairs closet which was caused by a leak in our 2nd-story bathroom. I have a new appreciation for changing hair trends.…
Keep readingDay Trip-Dell ‘Osso Farm
The first time I had gone there, my 18-year-old was only a toddler, and we lost her in the maze. Which was the first stop we made on this trip (after using the port-o-potty, of course).
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Day Trip: Lemo’s Farm
My aging children were not why I avoided Lemo’s; I was unwilling to face the traffic and the crowds. Not a problem this year.
Keep readingFall Garden Update
Click here to listen to this post. October 2020 I read somewhere that a scientist once wanted to find out if plants felt any pain. So he hooked some of his plants up to a measuring device, and just as he intended to burn them, the plants reacted. So now, whenever I work with or even look at my plants, I send them good vibes. As summer came…
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Hello (Again) Fall-2020
Fine 2020… you know what? Fine. And then Michael’s fall catalog showed up, the temperature outside dropped below 80, and I was like, I want a fall cakelet pan!
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Road Trip-Bay to Bakersfield
Click here to listen to this post. July 2020, just two weeks after driving to Lost Hills, (before the freak lightning storm and subsequent wildfires) my obsession with travel centers continued. This time my road trip took me past Lost Hills and Love’s. My four-hour journey took me down Interstate 5, east on 46 and south on 99 to my destination; a Pilot/Flying J in North Bakersfield. Once…
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Road Trip-Lost Hills, CA
Click here to listen to this post. Some take to the friendly skies, but I prefer ground travel every time. Before seatbelt laws were invented, I used to ride freestyle in the back of my parents’ car. With my feet against the back window and my back resting on the seat, I’d watch power-lines, airplanes, clouds, and the reflection of lane lines speeding by. On stormy days, I’d…
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My Return to San Gregorio
The parking lot, the cliffs, the colors, the vastness, and the vibe, were not at all how I remembered.
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Returning to the Beach
With all that has been going on, I’d been desperate for a beach day for months! And Oh, Happy Day, when I realized that my favorite beach had reopened in July.
Keep readingGoodbye Appliances
Does the drama of my machines warrant a blog post? Under normal circumstances, absolutely not. But these are COVID times.
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Goodbye Rico
Two days after Charles passed, Rico climbed over the roof into the front yard, precisely where I had found Charles. When Rico returned, he was very ill, and couldn’t walk.
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1st Solo Camping Trip!
As I passed the Portola Redwoods State Park sign, I thought my heart would leap out of my chest with joy and excitement. The feeling I get when I reach the top of a roller-coaster and it descends, only this time it gained in intensity & duration.
Keep readingLulu and the Thread
Lulu started vomiting twice a day. With her food and Rico’s available, I chucked it up to a consequence of overeating. Then she stopped eating, her vomit became liquid, and I waited for a hairball. None came.
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Goodbye Charles
On my way home, I saw Charles lying in the bushes. He looked half-dead, ants were already staking their claim. I bent down and called to him, but he could barely lift his head.
Keep readingC-19 Binging
This is a list of the programs I streamed during COVID-19. You may wonder why I’m posting this list, I’m asking myself the same as I type. As an information professional, I venture that one day someone may want an account of people’s lives during this time, not just corporate stats. Maybe one of my great-grandchildren wants to know, and I won’t recall. Let me point out that…
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Our Backyard
The project gave me something else to do during April as well as something to look forward to every morning.
Keep readingJin’s New Room
Click here to listen to a recording of this post. I’m a planner. There is a stack of used Tools for Wisdom planners in my closet to prove this. During the winter of 2019, I was setting 2020 goals. A major goal was to redecorate my tween’s room, which previously belonged to her brother. I spent weeks asking my daughter Jin what she wanted until the perfect image…
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Lulu’s Escape
Click here to listen to a recorded version of this post. June 2020 It wasn’t until I was getting ready to start my workout that I realized I hadn’t seen my cat, Lulu. Usually, she the first family member I see each morning. She greets me at my bedroom door, walks with me downstairs, jumps up onto the counter, and watches me prepare my coffee So I called…
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Bicycles
I watched the pedals spin faster and faster, and at some point, my fake steering wheel shot out onto the street. The trike jumped the curb, and together we slammed into the back of a parked car.
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