Joy of Country Living

We don’t eat out much anymore – mainly because there aren’t any ‘good’ restaurants close by. Just fast food places that serve hamburgers, pizza, BBQ and such. To get to what we call a restaurant would take us about an hour to get there. By the time we order and drive back home – making [...]

 This week has slipped by so fast almost missed getting this post up!   You may wonder what could take so much time?  How about taxes?!   The first of January is always a chore since I try to get all the tax stuff together  for the last year  . . . plus I like to finish [...]

…and call me in the morning. I like to think I’m in pretty good physical shape …. that is until I helped David with his projects like this last weekend.   After that experience, I have sore muscles in places I didn’t know I had muscles. And, lucky me, there wasn’t just one … but two such [...]

Glad to see this week start. My itching is almost gone and I’m ready for fall. Went shopping at the HEB on Saturday and found a new product on the baking aisle that I had to try. It is the HEB brand of seasoned flour. Had been using the Kentucky Kernel brand – but it [...]

Winter has arrived . . . at least as far as I’m concerned. It was a chilly 41 degrees this morning when we got up – with a chance of  frost (you gotta be kidding me) maybe tomorrow. I don’t even have my coat out of the cedar chest yet!!   Better get it out quick [...]