The Daily Rave

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Originally Posted by catherine

If she goes to preschool/daycare there, there's a good chance she'll at least have some kind of hybrid accent! In my DH's Scottish immigrant family, he never went to preschool, but his brother did. My husband has a Scottish accent--acquired through only having interacted with other Scots in his formative years--but my BIL does not. The accent for my husband has been a blessing and a curse--people love the accent, but then they think he's faking it when they learn that he has lived here pretty much all his life. I can vouch that he is not faking it, although he does have a propensity to lay it on a little thick at times. And as he gets older, he seems to channel his mother's broad Glaswegian speech patterns a lot more.

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i think I would love your husband!

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

i think I would love your husband!

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Haha! You wouldn't be the first... but I have a feeling he'd love you, too!

Went to 2 local farmers’ markets here in the RGV and totally surprised at the wonderful organic produce. Was able to sample local fruits I have never had and see the local mushrooms in the area. I bought local honey and kombucha. There are 2 more markets I can check out! DH said he enjoyed going too! Supposedly more vegetables will be available in a few weeks.

I love it here! There is so much to do and people are friendly. I feel I have found finally my forever home!

That is so wonderful--you worked hard to get there, congratulations!

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Originally Posted by frugal-one

I love it here! There is so much to do and people are friendly. I feel I have found finally my forever home!

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That is such a great feeling!! I'm so happy for you!

That's wonder, frugal-one!!

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Originally Posted by frugal-one

Went to 2 local farmers’ markets here in the RGV and totally surprised at the wonderful organic produce. Was able to sample local fruits I have never had and see the local mushrooms in the area. I bought local honey and kombucha. There are 2 more markets I can check out! DH said he enjoyed going too! Supposedly more vegetables will be available in a few weeks.

I love it here! There is so much to do and people are friendly. I feel I have found finally my forever home!

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That’s lovely to hear!

I’m happy to report I’m about halfway through my Christmas cards. I keep them low effort. They’re diving photo cards so I don’t have to write anything on the card. I use a return address stamp. I do handwrite recipients’ addresses. I tried labels last year and it was more of a hassle than hand writing them. I have maybe 20 international cards. Those take about a month at most, so they will go out 11/15. The rest will go out right after Thanksgiving.

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Originally Posted by Tradd

I’m happy to report I’m about halfway through my Christmas cards. I keep them low effort. They’re diving photo cards so I don’t have to write anything on the card. I use a return address stamp. I do handwrite recipients’ addresses. I tried labels last year and it was more of a hassle than hand writing them. I have maybe 20 international cards. Those take about a month at most, so they will go out 11/15. The rest will go out right after Thanksgiving.

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Kudos for being so pro-active!! I was just thinking about whether I was going to send any holiday cards out this year or not. Jury is still out.

My annual extravaganza of writing notes and processing 300 to 500 Christmas cards for Bulldog Rescue may be at at an end.


I told our organizer I was ready to start on Christmas cards and she said she’s been working on them since May and may not need my help this year, so yay!