Enchanted Rock

This last weekend, I went on a little weekend trip with my family. Mom drove Grandma back to Harlingen at the beginning of the week, and I was sad to see her go. I’ve been going out to GP to see her about three times a week for the last month. Lindsey flew there and [...]

Community Garden: Week 4

We’re making progress in the garden! Here’s a photo of Week 4. We’ve got the bulk of the February/March stuff in the ground, so the last couple of weeks has been mostly about successive plantings of a few things, weeding, and taking in the 4 days of rain Mother Nature sent us last week! The [...]

FINALLY, a heroine I can get behind!

I recently saw a great little movie called Happy-Go-Lucky. I’m not the hugest fan of British cinema or TV, honestly, so it was slightly annoying on that front (and to be honest, they could have cut out a good 40 minutes and it would have been even better, although I have been known to have [...]

Top 5 Fabulous Things of the Week 3.15.09

1. There’s a little shop called Shambhala in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District, and I bought some lotion there for Jon’s mother’s birthday last weekend. I tried it when she opened it, and it was so wonderful that I went back there today and bought some for myself (after rifling through her closet when she was [...]

In the News

I found some great stuff online recently that I thought I’d share. 1. http://acomplaintfreeworld.org/aboutus.html There’s a non-profit organization dedicated to the pursuit of a complaint-free world! They send out purple bracelets like the yellow LiveStrong ones to help people remind themselves not to complain, to encourage positive cooperation. How great is that? Yes, I know [...]

Community Garden, Week 2

This weekend was mostly spent working on the garden. And that is mostly due to the fact that the soil in this part of Texas is really, really hard, rocky clay. These are just some of the rocks that we pulled out of the garden soil as we worked. It took forever to amend the [...]