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Hot Tub Summits

   One of the indispensable luxuries we afford ourselves in life is pretty regular time in the hot tub.  At our old house in the City we had one but tended to slip in at night, under cover of darkness,…

Couch Surfers (installment tres)

See the beginning of our couchsurfing story here. And part deux here.    Note:  For the sake of anonymity we shall for now dub our couchsurfers Romeo and Juliet.  At least until I get an all clear smoke signal to reveal their…

Couch Surfers (part deux)

Also see the beginning of this story.    Where we left off I was in a small shopping frenzy, counting down the quarter hours till our out of state guests might arrive.  I had Hostess Butterflies, something that doesn’t happened very often these days. …

Good Girl Sangria

   Inspired by the images on this post and then by the recipe linked up on this one, last week I used a one dollar garage sale find and a recipe altered for non drinkers to serve my pretend sister some…

Rural Auction Etiquette

   A little like a garage sale, a little like Mexico shopping villages, and yet nothing at all like these things, an auction out in the country is an exercise in both restraint and certainty.    Restraint  & certainty are not…