My daughter, husband and kids have moved out! I have mixed feelings about this. While I feel it was too soon for them to move into their own place I don't deny that I'm glad to have my free time back. And I'll miss my grandkids even though looking after such young children was becoming a bit too much for me. I'd forgotten how energetic they are ( Read more... )

Aaarrrghh...I am getting too old for this ( Read more... )

I saw this meme at silver_trails and couldn't resist doing it too ( Read more... )

Alas, I have had to be away for some time AGAIN this month! But we are in the middle of making a huge lifestyle change that may turn out to be for the best...then again it could tank worse than the Titanic ( Read more... )

Yeah!!! Finished my Slashy Santa story and posted it. Had to change a lot of things. figured out what was making it seem flat, rewrote some bits and posted the sucker ( Read more... )

I'm back. Just finished my Slashy Santa story although it needs another read-through before I post it. I'm not that happy with it - it seemed a little flat when I read it last night - but it's done and that's the main thing. It was extremely difficult to write, partly because I have a bad writer's block right now, also the subject matter was a ( Read more... )

I saw this meme at Zimena's journal ( Read more... )

When I retired on June 30th last year (almost a whole year now!) I knew that it might be tough adjusting to a new lifestyle. After all, I had continued working after having my two children and that was back in the day when working mothers were given only three months' paid maternity leave and fathers none! (Now it's a year for both, I believe. ( Read more... )

I have not had a good time at all this past week. The worst thing was finding that quite a few sums of money were being withdrawn from my bank account that were not authorized by me! Horrified to see that my funds had dwindled to just over $100 from $800 I had in the account I use to put through Paypal transactions, and kicking myself for not ( Read more... )

A rabbit is eating my Asiatic lilies that are growing from bulbs I planted in the ground. I saw the little bastard nibbling in the garden the other evening. I've had to put green netting all over the area where I planted the bulbs...the tops have been bitten off so I am hoping that the plants will still grow. There are only four left but I ( Read more... )