Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After
Rediscovering Life after Retirement
Crafting and cookery and other creative Did It Myself endeavors.
Aloe there, friends, What up succas? Going out on a limb today and talking about plants! Succulents, to be exact. What can I say? I’m a succa for puns. Ha!! I’m also a succa for succulents lately. So much so, that you may remember I even added an activity on my 2018 summer bucket list […]
Happy first day of fall! If you are like me, you’ve been pretending it was fall for several weeks. Despite the heat. But it’s official now…autumn begins TODAY! Hurray! And how apropos that our high temps for today are 20 degrees lower than they were earlier in the week. Break out those sweaters, bring on […]
Dearest eaters and readers, Welcome to another edition of Tasty Tuesday that’s doing double duty (that’s a lot of Ds) as my Pinterest Blog Hop Challenge post for the month of September. Baking today’s recipe for pumpkin bread was like taking a trip down Memory Lane. The recipe for this bread was given to me […]
Sweet potatoes, Not feeling good this week, girls. Probably TMI but I am suffering with hemorrhoids. They are a real pain in the butt. Have tried ointments and creams, suppositories but still pretty miserable. Splurged today on a $28 tube of the strongest over the counter med available and can finally sit down long enough […]
Hello, Pinners! Welcome to the August Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop (and you too) to not just pin, but to make it happen! This month, I chose to make my own Pinspired light box for taking better […]
Sweet friends, Time for Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone, 07.2018. The monthly post where I can brag about doing even the tiniest things that are a stretch outside my ‘normal’. Things that make me antsy as my mother would say. This is my fifth post in the series. In the first one, I explained a […]