iris lilies
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haha, ok, that was good if a little long.

I paid big bucks to attend a fundraiser cocktail party a few weeks ago in one of the St. Louis Frank Lloyd Wright houses. The hallway from the...

Thank you to everyone sharing your tattoo stories!

There IS the Supreme Court nominee, true dat. If Trump wins, will Ruth Ginsberg be able to hang on for another four years?

Rosa, I was amazed and relieved when DH agreed to hire the architect across the street for our Hermann house. There are so many things we can do to...

I didn’t go to the doctor for something like 15 years. But even then I planned to get a shingles shot. I recently start going to the doctor and got...

I like this one too, I have several like this pinned in Pinterest. I’m having a hard time of deciding on cabinetry for a Hermann house.

Catherine, I love that cottage and all of its pastels. The style is highly suitable for your cottage. My own house in Hermann which I call to...

I guess he will lose then.

It’s a trap.

I didn’t know there was an annual variety of lupine, or maybe you’re talking about perennials? Anyway, we can’t grow lupines here it’s too hot and...

I am sad that I know I will never own a house with a Butler’s pantry. I’m too old and will not be buying a big old house that has one. There are some...

I tried Keeper of lost things, couldn’t get into it, but may try it again later.

Functionally, what’s the difference between a pantry and a shelving unit?

A riding mower is not a need it’s a want. But DH said it cuts down on time by a factor of four.

Although to be fair in this specific case, the Washington D.C. bureaucrats HAVE made the Hall of Statuary a zero sum game. Only 2 commemerative...

what do I watch out for in my local election, evidence of Russian influence, I mean?

Re:sharing tool. With the right group of people it goes well but of course that caveat is true for all community endeavors. At DH’s place of...

Luxe living in the workaday world, Tradd. Hope it all continues to go well.

That thief! No I dont think so! haha. My friend relates this story: Ameria Earhart stayed with his family (maybe grandfather? ) in a town in...

music is different. I am talking about static ridden, often political shouting radio shows. I have experienced DH working in our basement...

And this is as it should be, public art changing itself out to be relevant. Johnny Cash is an...interesting choice. But the choice of his state,...

We save many flower seeds, but over the decades I have learned which ones revert back quickly to core species traits. These revert quickly and...

That is a good deal!

We are new to the world of riding mowers after 30 years using push mowers. We now have 1 acre in Hermann so of course we need a riding mower, but we...

My own DNA analysis is just the way I like it, no spice. 95% British Isles. This explains my bland white bread Karen sort of existence, haha. The...

I was a defender of Patty Hearst then and now. Girl was tortured and brain washed.she didn’t sign up to be a Vietcong prisoner like stock John McCain...

Do you know how many times I’ve seen/listened to episodes of MASH over my 30 year marriage? ugh. Yet DH will watch it for the 36th time. in...

This is how I feel about my investment portfolio. I’ve been playing it for 35 years, things are good, I wanna cash out. I think slots are boring...

More on peace and quiet: In our Hermann house I envision where DH will watch evening tv. I think we will turn an upstairs bedroom into TeeVee...

Here in the epicenter of Ferguson wokeness, My city is putting up a new piece of statuary that references the struggle of African Americans in...

Yes. This Hawaiian King is also there, one of two statues chosen and donated by Hawaiians to represent their state. I had to read up on the Hall...

Matthew Rhys is a force to be reckoned with when given good material. I haven’t watch this yet because I dropped my HBO subscription, but in the...

I am escaping into the uncharted for me land of ancient dead relatives. My cousin sent me links to Findagrave that set me off on this path. Funny...

I am escaping into the uncharted for me land of ancient dead relatives. My cousin sent me links to Findagrave that set me off on this path. Funny...

I tried American Son on Netflix, but 10 minutes in found it tedious. It is about an interracial couple whose teenage son is picked up by the police....

Re noise: I have said this before, but one of the benefits of having two houses is DH being gone a few days a week and I have utter peace and...

why did (?) does the virus rage so strongly there, then?

Still have not been able to bring myself to pick purslane from the weed patches and eat it. I don’t know why, I’m not a picky person.

I am not sure if you’ve noticed this, but our President tweets a lot of dumb shit that goes nowhere.

While I have been afraid of this for a while with the Trumpster, I can also see that One persons “defying the Supreme Court decision “ is another...

New Zealand isn’t letting in furrinurs.I would hardly think of that as being back to normal. They are also very protective of their little Kiwi...

NPR‘s fresh air show had a interview with an ESPN broadcaster who covers baseball. He said he’s worn a mask when playing games and it’s tough. He...

Any government imposed curfew is an uncomfortable loss of essential freedom. It’s the usual Conflict of balancing two ideas, public safety versus...

I’m not a fan of jazz, and actually find much of it hard to follow. But I understand distain for smooth jazz, it is dull. R &B seems to me to be a...

This is what happened in Ferguson as well. I guess there is peaceful and “ peaceful.”

Must be a big tree! It is too bad it is gone if it is one you enjoyed. our two sugar maples were cut down in Hermann, leaving 6’ of trunk. They...

I threw away two pairs of pruners that were dull and didn’t work. Both of them made me mad because I needed them to work at the community garden, and...

Yeah, this. Protesting vs rioting can be tricky to distinguish. Protestors who show up to protest not riot can express their protest in ways of...

I have forgotten what the protestors and rioters are rioting over. Remind me again? Specifically, what do they want?

Oh this is getting better and better... Now that I have the Transamerica rollover forms in front of me, they are asking for a letter from Vanguard,...

More hoops from the financial world: Transamerica also “no longer Does wire transfer” so They will be sending me a check in the mail as well once I...

P.s. Tybee, believe me, i am nervous about this much $ coming by check and am paying $25 to have it tracked by Fed Ex.

entirely theoretical: my perception as a decidedly priveleged person is that ya’ll will NEVER be happy with real or perceived or varying or imagined...

Vanguard cannot make Empower (Employer company) do anything. Empower said they cannot do any electronic transfer, “maybe someday we will have this...

Update: still plugging along here. I will pay attention to these Vanguard fund recommendations when I acrually get my vanguard account funded....

Our girl is named “Kim” too, Kim Gardener. She is in all out war with our police department. That makes for effective law enforcement. Not.