Hubs and were out while youngest daughts, who gets up before the birds, was taking a nap after a hard day making coffee. She answered the phone despite the fact that we have always cautioned our offspring not to draw attention to the fact that during the day children are at home.  It’s an unspoken…

While walking in the slightly cooler weather around our pond across the field I took this barren looking view of the road and the apartments beyond. The heron was skittish and I photo bombed the shot with my shadow! The trees don’t seem to be growing much despite the pond serving as a creek overflow,…

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  1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule–the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews…

Hubs and I have had a king size bed for years. King size beds get some negative press but for me I love the stretch capacity they afford without encountering my bedmate every time I turn over or want to spread myself around a bit. Our bed is firm too so I am not disturbed…

We were out in Mineola a week or so ago and found an antique shop with this sign in the window, which was a very suitable description for what our house had become during our Gap Year in England! Further along there was this reminder of the lazy summer days of hubs’ youth! Continuing on our…

While in England hubs and I would eat lunch, our later than usual break of a fast, around 1pm or 2pm.  Late I know but we had usually eaten dinner the evening before with the sunset, about ten at night. By the time we had eaten our bowl of fruit and oatmeal or yogurt and started…

I was born and raised in Europe with bidets. A bidet is that little foot bath look-alike that sits alongside the toilet in Continental and British bathrooms.  As a young adult I formulated an appropriate answer to the question that arose when guests to my house encountered this little porcelain companion for the first time,…