• Family,  Travel

    Days of Journaling Underneath a Texas Sky

    Today it is Monday, 11/24 as I type this in draft. I don’t want to publish it til we get back. But we are in TX. I thought I’d post some of our trip for my memories and if anyone is interesting in reading along they can. Let’s go back to Saturday…. Saturday Morning, Nov 22 Saturday Morning, 11/22 we left at 6:45 a.m. and dropped the dogs off at Doggy daycare. And then we headed West toward Bellevue and stopped at Chic Fil A for our morning breakfast. We always stop around Jackson, TN at a place we call “the solar farm” for a break. It was lunch time…

  • Aging,  Aging Parents,  Family,  Food,  Holidays,  Home,  Stress

    Thanksgiving Days along with some Thanksgiving Troubles

    Good afternoon. Post Turkey Day. I’ve looked forward to this weekend for a long time. It is so hard to come by a day at home. And to have a few days finally is just delightful. It doesn’t come without threats to it though, as always. Mom went to Thanksgiving dinner to see my sister on Tuesday. She hobbled in and out with her gout. We had a nice time with my sister and my niece. My nephew had a virus and my BIL stayed home with him. It was a busy short 3 day work week of trying to get payroll done and the aftermath, and to get manual…

  • Busy,  Food,  Friends,  Holidays,  Nashville,  Restaurants

    Proper Sake, Coco’s Italian Market, Friendsgiving, Plumbing, and Medical Results

    Saturday We had a really nice Saturday with our friends at Proper Sake. The main thing was just getting together for a Friendsgiving moment and catching up. Everyone enjoyed the sake and I tasted it. I didn’t want alcohol in my tummy. So I had one of the only two drinks that were non alcoholic, some kind of mango spritzer over a really big ice cube. It was really good. Then we went to Coco’s Italian Market. Had a great time there. I was unsure of what to eat, but went with salmon and cooked veggies on a bed of Alfredo noodles. It was heavenly. It was all so good.…