Posted in Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 5/26/25

I’m marveling this morn, remembering our supper last night.

I prepared Neal’s Sunday Night Chicken, using a variation of Ina Garten’s Perfect Roast Chicken.

Carrots, fennel, garlic, onion, fresh thyme and fresh rosemary. 

Prep the six-pound chicken …

Impatiently wait an hour and a half, as incredible aroma fills our humble abode.

In the meantime, make vegetable broth with parts of the veggies I did not use.

And take a little rest with Benny on the couch …

Voila!

Robert doesn’t trust me with sharp knives.

Delicious Food Joy!

Posted in The “United” States

I Wonder If …

I wonder if all the people who voted for Trump are happy about and supportive of his continuing acts of strongman tyranny.

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Is this the kind of president they want?

Is this the kind of country they want?

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Posted in Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 5/23/25

1. Air conditioning! Savannah …

Ridiculously hot for spring. And yet, there is no climate crisis?!

2. Our bathroom window curtain.

It is a physical manifestation of simple joy.

3. Our incredible cell phones. (And occasionally the common sense to put them down.)

4. Reaching 15,000 minutes on my 10% Happier meditation app.

5. Reading this terrific new little book about the wonder of our natural world.

And here is a neat little Serviceberry tree outside our cottage at a recent state park stay.

May you discover some Happy Bringers in the weekend ahead.

Posted in Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 5/16/25

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

(A Day Late)

1. Our Travel Buddies. Have I told you about them?

These three little fellows go with us on our every little excursion. And get prominently displayed (by HR).

3. The precious ability to cry.

4. Remembering our daily fire up in the north Georgia mountains last weekend, where the lows were in the 50’s and highs in the upper 60’s.

The five day weather forecast for here in Savannah …

5. On a walk this morning, coming across this (somehow) discarded photo on the sidewalk.

May her little life be filled with joy.

And may your weekend be a Photograph of Beauty.

Posted in Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 4/9/25

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. HR’s cute Star Wars excitement.

2. Finding Benny and best buddy Huggy Kitty still fast asleep when I walked into the living room at about 6 am the other morning.

Just in case you want to know more about Huggy Kitty, here’s a previous post that explains, in far too much detail …

3. Being able to go to the grocery store and buy food. What a blessing.

4. Our new buddy Greenie, who has taken up residence in our Potted Plant Garden in front of our apartment.

See him?

No, no, that’s not part of Greenies‘s body. Here he is, truthfully exposed.

5. Continuing today’s animal theme, this friendly blackbird (grackle?) I had a little conversation with the other day.