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Our cat Sunni, died last week. 15 Nov 2019. She was about 2 when we adopted her and was 19 1/2 when she passed, so we had around 17 1/2 years with her. To celebrate her life with us, I put together this video featuring lovely photos of her over the years enjoying all her favorite things! I'm sorry I didn't end up with any photos of just me with her; just of her with Dave. That's because I was usually home alone when she was sitting on me. Every afternoon she'd call me to come either come play with her, when she was young, or ask to sit with me and be brushed, when she was older. She was a sweet companion in our lives whom we greatly miss. For the story of how we adopted her, go   here . ******* Grief is always journey. Sometimes it helps to share it with those who've also lost. For that, I participated in a Candlelight Tribute for any and all pets who've "crossed the rainbow bridge." It's held in a chatroom you c...

There was an early freeze this year, but that freeze didn't effect everything. Mostly just the Vinca & Saliva, which often come back from the roots. In full color right now: This row of button cushion mums under my kitchen window I planted around the beginning of Oct. And this handsome pink Gerber in my front bed:

We had a conference in Orlando we recently returned from and since it was next door to Disney World, we took a couple extra days to visit various parks.  In particular, we visited the new Star Wars Galaxy's Edge that's in the Hollywood Studio's park. I think that was my favorite. It really had an other worldly feel and Chewbacca, Rey, various Resistance Fighters and Storm Troopers were in the area role-playing, like a Resistance Fighter suddenly dashed out of hiding through the crowd to evade a pair of Storm Troopers patrolling or Chewie and a Resistance soldier repairing a X-Wing Fighter and so on.  They did not pose for "character shots" or anything; just were doing theme ambiance. But, despite rumors to the contrary, there is some really good food in the Disney World Parks and today I'm going to share some of the best eats we tried while there! The Black Spire Outpost in Galaxy's Edge: It had a cute little eatery in the " "outpost...

The Mama Kat prompt I'm doing today is, "Share your favorite local restaurant." We have a couple favorite local restaurants, but I'm only going to share one today: The Aegean Restaurant. This one is located in Shalimar, Florida, across the the street from the county administrative building, around 10 -12 miles from where we live. Distance here is kind of relative, since the Air Force base is the center  of everything and the towns are spread out on either side of it, so getting from one to another involves driving around the base; Shalimar is on the West side of the base and we live on the East side. It's Greek and the family that owns and runs it are Greek as well, so it's authentic. Here's an inside view: All the food on the menu is delicious and they have a good mix of Greek specialties as well as entrees, pastas, salads for those who rather have something more ordinary. One thing I like that they serve, if I'm in the mood for ...

Today's recipe is my own skillet dinner creation I make for myself and Hubby. I call it, "Quick BBQ  Kielbasa Dinner," but it's actually mix of Kielbasa, sliced onions & either sliced apples or drained pineapple chunks topped with your favorite barbecue sauce and served over rice.  Our favorite BBQ sauce is Heinz Hawaii Sweet & Smokey. It's good, no corn syrup. They make several flavors. (Pictured is with pineapple chunks, but I often use apples.) For just the 2 of us, I only use half a kielbasa, but I've written the recipe for a whole one, which should serve 4. Quick BBQ Kielbasa Dinner 1 Hillshire Farms Kielbasa, sliced & slices halved 1 medium onion, sliced 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil 2 apples, cored & sliced and slices cut in half OR 1 can drained pineapple chunks BBQ Sauce  Rice  (have it cooked and ready or use Minute Rice cups you can microwave) Directions: In skillet over medium high heat add olive oil a...

Today is new roof day!  Roofers arrived on time, which was early and I hear them up there, scraping around, removing everything. Today and tomorrow, then done and once done, our roof will be up to current hurricane code. Modern dimensional shingles.  I went out for a photo and saw they consciously covered all my landscape close to the house with protective plastic tarps. Nice. The 4 O'clocks were looking beautiful at 7:48 this morning: The Romaine lettuce seed never did sprouted, which isn't a surprise, since I knew it was over 2 years old---but you never know. Fortunately the weather was cooled down and peas like cool weather, so I planted sweet container peas instead.

Last week wasn't a good week. I was generally discouraged, completely stressed out over some paperwork the roofing company sent us as to how important it was to get done or not done before that started work this week and to top it off---last Thursday night, groggy and not fully awake in the bathroom, instead of grabbing my dry-eye eyedrops from the tray on the sink counter, I grabbed a small bottle of something else that definitely  shouldn't go in your eye and dumped that right on my left eye! I snapped totally awake then and spent a good amount of time washing it out at the kitchen sink.  Even so, it stung the snot out of my eyelid and mucus membranes around that eye, leaving it thoroughly irritated. I looked like Rocky Balboa.  I didn't do anything last Thursday except sleep through movies in the living room and keep my eye moist with eye ointment. Needless to say, looking at the computer was completely out.  So last week wasn't a happy week. On the up si...