(I thought I was just putting captions under my pictures above, but it looks like regular text to me. So consider those captions, and the paragraph below the beginning of the actual post, please, and I will do better with my next post. WordPress keeps changing things on me, and I don’t post often enough to keep up!) I’m home now, and finally able to post a bit more. The WordPress interface on my iPad was annoying the hell out of me, so I gave up, though I originally had a goal of posting here every day, at least a picture or two, to share my journey with you. Instead,…

Cannes was lovely, we put our feet into the sea, did a little shopping, and mostly people watched. Perhaps at some point WordPress will allow me to add more pictures to this post, but I’m not holding my breath.

Something weird happened with yesterday’s post (including the fact that I thought I had saved it, not published it, but I guess while I do not have jet lag, my blog clearly does). I will try to edit that post, but my first attempt failed miserably, so am just forging ahead. Today was day 2 or 3 of our trip, since you lose a day traveling, I don’t know. Or you could say day 1 of our vacation, since it was our first full day in France. We are in a little town near Cannes, called Mougins. Again, my computer or blog is being weird, so this is the only…

  Today we started our day with a dog walk, then going to the airport and getting ready for our flight to France. A LONG day later (over 9 hours for the flight, then rental car and drive to hotel etc), we are finally where we are meant to be, with two very happy cousins. Here are our pictures..

My company is giving us a lovely benefit this summer, which is Fridays off from work, which they are calling ‘Fabulous Fridays’. I am loving it. On my first Fabulous Friday, I Got Things Done. I started by taking one of the cars in for an oil change, and while I waited for the car, I took Mulder for a walk downtown. It was a nice change from our normal daily walk around our neighborhood. The car took about an hour longer than it should have, which caused me some stress, as I had a hair appointment at 11:00. Luckily, modern times means that I have my stylist’s number in…

Tomorrow is my Great Aunt Flo’s 98th birthday, and we are going to gather to celebrate with her. It will be picnic type potluck outside at her retirement home, and the menu is mostly take out, KFC, Strawberry pie, that kind of thing. I decided to make a black bean and corn salad that I adore. I first got the recipe from my blog friend Jess Riley in 2007, and while I have it printed out, I had a horrible thought…what if she were to shutter her blog, and I lose my printed copy, and the recipe is gone forever???? I can’t bear the idea. So, I’m going to copy…

My darling friend Marilee, who lives in Upstate New York, near Niagara Falls, sent me a link to a Literature Clock. When you go to that website, a quote from literature will appear that corresponds (sometimes exactly, sometimes loosely) to the current time. I forget about it for days or weeks at a time, then I see it in my Safari tab, and I check it out. I like it, it’s a small pleasure. As you can see by my last 2 posts, Maya and Mulder both had birthdays recently. For Maya’s birthday, we had a party on Saturday, and the menu was appetizers…we have varied dietary restrictions around here,…

My BFF Rosemary sent me this picture a few weeks ago. Rosemary, her brother David, David’s girlfriend Stephani, and my brother Richard, we were all good friends. I am at David and Stephani’s wedding reception. I’m a bridesmaid, and that suntan tells you everything you need to know about why I go see a dermatologist every year now. My mom is smiling next to me, wearing purple, and Richard is a groomsman, and you can see him over my shoulder at the far right of the photo, with the beard. Richard was also very good friends with David and Stephani. David was the best man at Richard and Kathy’s wedding.…

This weekend’s decluttering task was the kitchen drawers. It’s disturbing how satisfying it is to throw things away. I pick things out that I think Goodwill might sell, and put those in a bag to donate. I pick things out that I think I can give away on my Buy Nothing group, and I post those. But a lot of things are just plain worn out. Next weekend SHOULD be the cupboards where the pots and pans go, but I think I am going to skip that and come back to it. Our bathroom cabinets are a disaster and it is very difficult to find things. We have eleventy billion…