Category Archives: lake

My friend Sharon has a unique outlook on life.  Her observations and comments are often hilarious, sometimes jaw-dropping and always entertaining. Three years ago she announced she was tired of Christmas.  She’d come up with a plan, informed her husband … Continue reading →

We’ve been invited out to dinner on Christmas Day.  There will be music.  We are to bring the banjo and the fiddle and maybe even the lap steel. I was begged to bring the karaoke machine and both microphones.  And … Continue reading →

Here’s the photo: Here’s the story:  a fallen soldier’s dog I came across this while reading the news this morning.  Just had to share. Love, MorePie  

Mike’s parents are coming over for dinner tonight.  I am cleaning and cooking and all the other stuff that goes with entertaining.  I just cleaned out the hall closet and next up is rehooking all the speaker wires and vacuuming windowsills. I … Continue reading →

we’re off to Lincoln today.  banjo man needs a new Cornhusker t-shirt. iowa tomorrow. the mazda hit 150,000 miles yesterday. looks like Banjo Man needs coffee.

Question:  how long does it take to drive from Valentine to North Platte??? Answer:  Five hours, if you get lost in the Sand Hills. I’m going to bed now.  

(photo courtesy of WPRO.com) Here’s a post-hurricane picture of a beach a few miles from our house. Half of Rhode Island doesn’t have electricity, and many won’t have power again for six or seven days. My mother is not one … Continue reading →