You know it's winter when the temp drops from 55 degrees to 7 degrees in less than12 hours!   Haven't had much in the way of snow, but that is soon to come too....  Just a few flurries so far today, supposed to get some more snow tonight.  Wow, I forgot how cold 7 degrees can feel - makes me realize that the 40s and 30s we used to get in Tennessee ( Read more... )

The first snow flurries of the season just fell, and in my favorite fashion - in the middle of the night, when everything is quiet and still.  I stood out in the driveway and watched the flakes fall, and disappear as they hit the ground.  For there being so few of them that actually fell, they were perfect - big, fluffy flakes, like pieces of ( Read more... )

Thank god, things are starting to get cooler here.  Of course this is my favorite time of year, I can't wait for Halloween, and the crisp, grey days of fall!  I have been missing Tennessee a little lately though, probably because of the weather change.  I was always so content to look out my living room window, looking at the leaves in the wood ( Read more... )

 Isaac Hayes  1942-2008


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Finally I have my new computer.  It's definitely me, a lovely shade of dark red, and has a built-in webcam, so I will be able to converse online with those of you who also have a cam!  Tonight I called Cox cable, and am now officially back on the intrawebs - yay me!  I'll do a bigger update soon, it's been a busy couple of months.  I am really ( Read more... )

Yesterday our great-uncle Leo passed away.  He had recently been diagnosed with cancer in his throat, and got very ill after taking chemo.  The doctor is still puzzled why he passed so quickly, but hopefully we will get some explanation soon.

Uncle Leo lived with my grandmother since before I was born.  We are a big Irish family, and pretty much ( Read more... )

Here are a few pix from the Ace show....


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OK time for another update - man I gotta get better at these... Too much time passes between & I end up forgetting a bunch! LOL

I went to Atlanta at the end of last month for two different things - to finally visit 
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Just got back from FX - had a blast as usual. There was something a little bittersweet about this trip, probably the fact that jadezuki and greggysaurus will be moving soon, so trips down there will be fewer unless I get a job down there ( Read more... )

Guess I should - it's been like forever since I have, huh ( Read more... )