Category: coffee pot posts

  • I’m curled up on the sofa in the front room after a sleepless night, determined that I will be awake to sign for this scheduled Fed Ex delivery if it is required. If I have to get up early, it’s nearly guaranteed that I won’t fall asleep until 3 a.m. or so. When I was…

  • what to do what to do what to do A little over a week since the beginning of the end of human history, I am emerging from a fog of fever and phlegm: the virus that hit both of us and numbed us both somewhat for over a week. Sandy less so; his coughing has…

  • Now that I’ve finished my posts about our trip to Scotland, and I highly recommend that you scroll to the bottom of that linked page and begin at the beginning, I can get on with journaling my regular life here in North Carolina. A week after we returned from Scotland, I participated in a group…

  • I wanted to sleep a little later, but I really didn’t need to. Pablocito convinced me of that with his loud meowing. He is a pain in the ass early in the morning and he is the most vocal kitty we have ever lived with. However, he has settled in to curling up beside me…

  • Before I blog our trip to Scotland, let me take a few moments to process some of what has happened in North Carolina while I was gone. Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage to a huge area of one of my favorite places on Earth – the mountains of North Carolina. I have friends and family…

  • We haven’t been to the lake since April and will take a short trip down there with a couple of friends soon. We were going to go this past weekend and stay through the week, but between the heat wave and my reluctance to leave Pablocito alone for the first time in his life, we…

  • I really don’t know why I can’t get myself to catch up on my blog posting.  The thing is that I love  to look back on my travel posts, and I frequently refer to my search and category functions when I don’t remember a date or a name. You would think that with all the…

  • I haven’t posted for over a month, which is probably the longest or close to the longest I’ve ever gone without writing. It’s not that I’ve had nothing to say, or that I’ve done nothing. All in all, retirement is working out well for me. Time goes very quickly. I am never bored. As I…

  • Other than certain events happening only on weekends and many of my friends having them off, I now understand this. Also, having to check my calendar and my pill box to see what day it is. Geez. I guess I need to register for some kind of class to have some structure to my week.…

  • This week I’ve relaxed into my new lifestyle for sure. Tuesday we went to our big used bookstore in town, and we absolutely hate that it will be moving about 40 miles away – grrr – and traded in a few books for credit. We immediately used the credit and I bought two books on…