for the record…

Things I like, in no particular order:

1. thick, fuzzy, warm new socks
2. hot chocolate
3. cold Coke
4. snuggling
5. sleeping under a mountain of comforters and pillows
6.the symphony
7. chick flicks
8. Marvin the Martian
9. the crash of waves on the beach
10. the stars

it’s all … you know

some saints are holy

…and some are holy terrors

Happy Halloween

Whether you like the traditional Candy Corn, Whoppers malt balls (if you know what’s good) or those silly Red Twizzlers, I hope you get what you like.

more pics…this time post flooding

If you are familiar with That Catholic Show you might recognize one of those pictures from Black Shoals Park, where the water episode was filmed. There was a severe drought at the time of that filming, so you probably won’t actually recognize this at all, but I assure you it’s the same place. We took these pictures from the covered bridge, and to our amazement and delight, a sailboat blew into the scene! In all the years we’ve been going to that bridge I’ve never seen the water deep enough to support a boat that wasn’t built for the shallow waters, let alone a sailboat.

just thought I’d share

I took this a few years ago and I like it. That is all.

[not]wounded soldier sally returns soon!

We get her for a month of R & R in a few days. Hurray! Now, if we can just keep her out of hospitals….

a mature palate…[doesn't that sound sophisticated?]

When I was a kid one of my favorite books was Harriet the Spy. I first read it in the fourth grade, and I think that my love of people watching was greatly influenced by Harriet and her penchant for spying on people and keeping a notebook with her observations.

A little itty bitty part of me started blogging to do just that.

Another thing that I picked up from good ole Harriet is a love of tomato sandwiches. Weird, I know, but oh so tasty! When I was a kid I would lather plenty of mayonaise on a couple of slices of Wonder bread, slice a tomato over it, and mash it together into a delicious mushy mess of goodness.

I hate to say that it’s been years since I ate a tomato sandwich, and I can’t really come up with a reason for not having eaten one. I guess I found more interesting things to do with tomatoes.

Until today.

I came home from work with the hungries and stood in front of the open refrigerator door contemplating cottage cheese, yogurt, and leftover pot roast. Then I spied a red, juicy tomato. Jackpot. Only, this wasn’t Harriet’s 11 year old-style sandwich. Oh no. I used a multigrain wheat bread with a light tangy mayo, and sprinkled garlic salt and parsley over the tomatoes before carefully placing a second slice of bread on top and…mashing it together into a delicious mushy mess of goodness.

Heaven.

we remember

one million years ago

We were hot.