• Reading,  Retirement,  Shopping,  Uncategorized

    A Week of Shopping, Seeing Friends, and Enjoying Ourselves

    Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Sharing our wonderful little Grands. River is playing baseball and really good at it. It might be t-ball – I’m not exactly sure. Trace, it’s been told, also thinks he is on the team, lol. Trace is getting to be so big as he’s chasing after big bro. They have had a fun Easter filled with all the Easter Egg hunts and Easter baskets – from home, church, and school and/or daycare. Oh the joys of childhood! News from Texas is great with our daughter’s career going well and so is my SIL. Both work so hard. Katy’s title has Assistant Principal in it now. She…

  • Decluttering,  Depression,  Mental Health,  Projects,  Retirement

    Final DeCluttering: Minimalists Won’t Like It

    Here’s the final episode of going through our kitchen cabinets to declutter. You can watch it HERE. George had already gone through the cabinets a year ago and consulted me on a few things but we wanted to go through them again now that I’m retired and get rid of a few more things, which we did. We have a lot of cabinet space, so if it gave us joy and we anticipated that we could still use it, we kept it. We have additional cabinets down stairs (almost an entire kitchen but without the sink and stove, but we do have a downstairs fridge). We had fun with the…

  • Books,  Tea

    The Tea Center, Books I’m Reading, and Information Technology Crisis

    The Tea Center Just a few notes from today. My long awaited STASH “tea center” arrived in it’s bamboo container, just like the one we had at work. I added all the specialty tea bags I already had to the mix. I barely got it in and it’s in sections (sort of). After a while of trying to keep I sorted by type of tea (berries, mints, chamomile, chai, green tea, black tea, white tea, etc), I finally had to stick my “Constant Comment” tea anywhere it would fit in the backs of each one, lol. Do you think we are set for a while? The STASH tea is better…