Today, Tom turned sixty years old! He is surprised to have made it to this mile stone in life, especially with all the health issues he faces daily. Happy birthday "Duncan The Dog"! I hope 2025 is a wonderful year for you! ^.^

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Have a safe and happy holiday!

I set up our Christmas tree today. This is the first time I've put up a Christmas tree before Thanksgiving in many, many years. I had the time and just wanted to get it done. It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is a week from this coming Thursday.

Donald John Trump is the forty-seventh President of the United States of America, having won both the popular vote and the electoral college. Republicans have regained the majority in the Senate. I am not going to lie, I was relieved to hear that Harris and Walz were defeated. The Democrats staged a coup, kicked out the incumbent President, Joe ( Read more... )

Every year, Tom and I usually get a picture of us at Becky's Drive-In from the Lehigh Valley Festival and Car Show featured in the Blue Mountain Town & Country Gazette, a free local paper. This year, we actually got a full page!


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Happy Halloween one and all! Tom and I will watch "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and a few movies tonight while munching on Snickers, KitKat Ghost Toast, and some Reeses Pumpkins and Bats! The temperature here is supposed to reach eighty degrees today! It reached seventy-six yesterday, talk about "Indian Summer"! I hope everyone has a ( Read more... )

Today is National Candy Corn Day! Personally, I cannot stand the taste or texture of candy corn, but for those of you who do, do you prefer the original yellow, orange, and white variety or the ones with other colors such as brown, blue, red, etc.? If you enjoy this Halloween/fall confection that could likely be melted down and used as a fuel ( Read more... )

When I read the article below, I immediately noticed the word "anthropomorphic". It is extremely sad when anyone, especially a young person, cannot separate fantasy from reality. It reminds me of people who have a crush on a fursuit character, not realizing they likely would find the person inside the costume anything but attractive or what they ( Read more... )

We've been enjoying Indian Summer here over the last few days with temperatures in the mid seventies. It will be near eighty today and possibly low eighties tomorrow. Wednesday will be the last warm day with temperatures in the upper seventies. A cold front will pass through on Wednesday bringing temperatures down to sixty on Thursday. It's ( Read more... )

I received a text message this afternoon from 99.9FM The Hawk (local classic rock station) stating I was one of the winners of a twenty-five dollar Sunoco gas card in their annual "Fuel Fest" contest. I've entered this contest over the last couple of years. Every year for two weeks, they announce key words on air four times a day, so you just ( Read more... )