Saturday last, with most all the bakeries around town closed for the day, I set out to find french rolls, bread boules and hamburger buns to get us through the day. After 2 1/2 hours I found that Three Brothers on Belfort did indeed have most all that I needed. I spoke with Janice on …
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Goodbye Miss Bonnie Even though I thought I was prepared, I wasn’t really ready to say goodbye to our Ms. Bonnie. This beautiful, funny, talented, kind and loving woman has been a part of our family for over forty years and now she is gone. There is no one like Bonnie. I remember the day …
This is a text block. You can tell this by seeing that there are words in it. I like to use the words to give you my take on things including what we have going on at the Duck. But mostly I can use this space to brag about how smart the black and white …
Seems like only yesterday that we were strolling down memory lane sorting through the scrapbooks and sharing stories with you about the early days. And then wow, corona happened and everything changed. What a crazy few weeks this has been. For all of us. Everybody is working from home, we are waiting in line to enter the grocery …
Why Memphis? Well, it’s becoming one of my favorite cities and it’s my 70th birthday. Yes, yes, it’s true, I have spent the last fifteen or more years turning various ages in Las Vegas. And wow, LV is so much fun. All those lights, that action, the people watching. And our friend Amber is the …
The first day in Puglia we were given the freedom to wander about the country, at least the country surrounding our hotel. Starting the next day our hosts from VBT, Deborah and Juliano (native Puglians) had us awakened at TCOD (the crack of dawn) as opposed to my usual TCON (the crack of noon). We …
[slideshow]We were still awake after 26 hours and quite hungry so we joined Val (a fellow cyclist) for brunch at our Masseria Torre Maizza Hotel restaurant. After lunch, I insisted on a short nap before exploring the area and ocean around the hotel. Some of our cycle mates advised against this nap plan of mine, …
I still could not sleep, so between meals I finished my book, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” then watched a little Italian T.V. and tried to finish the crossword puzzle, which was difficult for me as I don’t speak much Italian, yet. Once we finally landed in Roma we were directed to Terminal B …
It’s a good day so far, I may not be in the First Class section of the plane, but I can see it from here.
