Joy of Country Living

Ever so often, we decide to play hooky for a day, leaving the yard work, computer work and everything else behind.  And last Saturday was one of those days. We woke up to an absolutely gorgeous day – unseasonably cool and a beautiful clear sky. Certainly not a day to stay home no matter what [...]

After last week this week seems like a cake-walk. It all started after David watched an online financial webinar. After the webinar, he went to a website to read more about one of the topics, and that is when it all started. He received an AVG alert about a Trojan virus being detected. Normally, he [...]

 It’s winter again, cold and wet – so doubt if we’ll be going to an auction we had planned to attend Saturday.   We went there last weekend, primarily to see friends – as well as the thousands of Dallas Cowboy items they were auctioning off. This weekend they are to auction off the more traditional estate [...]

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 [...]

Monday-Wednesday Still hot (100+) and still inside this week. Pretty much just been doing some cooking. Since I really like to save $$$ by using leftovers, I’ve been concocting some new dishes – as you know I don’t like eating the same thing two times in a row if I can avoid it – and [...]