Life is for the birds --
and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the moon up above, and a thing called love -- Jewel Akens

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Monday, March 25, 2013

So, I'm not starving yet, but I do need a job, and I need to start a new career. My family is long-lived, so I can reasonably expect to be alive until 85.

My current job, until I can find something to buy beans and pay electricity, is to sell this house, and decide what to do next. My last job was being Lyman Gore's wife. That took some resources and most of 19 years.

Employers don't much care about that.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

That's a tasty cake, without a complicated recipe, and moist.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Ahem. My MIL has a birthday on March 5.

I have traditionally baked a cake for her on that day. She likes chocolate. Whatcha got?

UPDATE: Never mind. She wants Italian cream. She'll be 93.

Well, thinking it over, I don't want to make an Italian cream. I'm doing Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate.

Keep your exquisite chocolate. This is what she grew up with. She didn't actually demand the Italian cream. She just said it was always good.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Mo' rain

Mo' rain by Janis Gore
Mo' rain, a photo by Janis Gore on Flickr.
Have I done something to deserve this?

If so, I repent right here. We're talkin' two more days of this this week.

Maybe we all will come out of drought this spring.

UPDATE: 1.7"
2.57" now at 6:20 p.m.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

My Valentine, for a few years, has been my mother-in-law.

Her son might be deceased, but she is still my mother-in-law, and she is alive. She'll be 93 on March 5. So I took her a card, a small potted flower, and a box of chocolates today, as I have every year she has been at Magnolia House.

Happy Valentine's Day, Girl!

Note: One's love and one's Valentine can be two separate persons.

Lyman and I would just cook something special together. Sometimes. And that man loved his mama.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Wild Magnolias

Morning rain

Morning rain by Janis Gore
Morning rain, a photo by Janis Gore on Flickr.

Midsummer I'll be complaining that we haven't had rain in six weeks.

But y'all, this is the third day of this weather, in a row, this week.

Our drainage isn't that bad.