Pig Candy

    This weekend Mister and I climbed into the car to go to Beer Clug and I looked down at the bucket of Pig Candy I was carrying and said, “This may be the strangest thing I’ve ever had…

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Miss Vera

    On this date in 1907, Vera Owen Bridges was born. She would become a mother 21 years later. Many, many years after that, she would become a great-grandmother. My great-grandmother.   All my memories portray her as an…

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Homecoming

    I read a fabulous piece in the LA Times (link is here) about professional pallbearers. More common in the American South, it’s a relatively new sight here in the California South.   The article delves into the lives…

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Clean Teeth, Then What?

    Yesterday I got my teeth cleaned, which I loved, loved, loved! I nearly fell asleep in the dentist’s chair, y’all. I’m ever-so-slightly tweaked that way.   Anyhoo, after I left the dentist’s office and was walking around, I…

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Brain-Storming

    Have you ever brainstormed an idea, out of necessity or not, only to be shut down by others who believed your thoughts/solutions would never work?   Mister and I have been dealing with a leaky shower door since…

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Pie

    I happen to love “Southern Living” magazine. I enjoy the editorials, the garden information, the recipes. When I received the most recent issue, I read the danged thang from cover-to-cover.   After I’d put the magazine aside, I…

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