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Not that bad…after all.  Remember that the first intended set up was sold before I had a chance to go back and claim it.  So I had to come up with Plan B.  Believe it or not, I like the alternative better.  I love this room!!  I can see into the gardens, it is soContinue reading “Plan “B”…first entertaining in my new digs…still liking it very much…”

Well…Miss Lucy, one of my most devoted fans, snapped me out of the sultry, hot, humid vacation I was having and demanded to know what’s going on with the Contessa.  I don’t know if I can cope with the price of being so popular with the five or so readers I have.  Well, in honesty, I have aContinue reading “Florida…my new home…vacation…and my most demanding fan…”

I’m so glad we had this time together…Just to have a laugh and share a write-up…Seems we just started…And before you know it…Comes the time to say “So long.”  Most of these words are from the song Carol Burnett used to sing at the end of her show every week. The time has come forContinue reading “I’m so glad we had this time together…”

The gravy train of inspiration has left the station.  The muscles in my back are all twisted, the eyes are closing and not interested in opening again, the legs begging for rest, and the neurons in my brain all shut-down. Today is a hard day for inspiration.  I cannot even think.  I had to resortContinue reading “If muscles could talk…”

How much undergarment can one have?  Do I think that maybe one day I will be going to Siberia, where probably I will have to take my own food, my own folding chair (Hi Lucy), and a bear to help me keep warm. This is a partial picture of suitcases, canvas bags, overnight bags, andContinue reading “The privilege of excess…”

I remember when I was growing up in the Dominican Republic, every day there was a lady, Dona Gloria, that used to come and visit my mother for one to two hours in the afternoon.  They would have coffee, and talk, talk and talk until it was time for one of them to go toContinue reading “High tech takeover…the battle of the computers…”

This is as close as I am getting to a beach right now.  I love this painting because it gives me the feeling of peace, tranquility and serenity.  Same things, just sound different.  It is a big painting, that probably I will have to depart with because I won’t have any space for it in myContinue reading “European-style vacation… a good idea?”

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to theContinue reading “Have a Memorable Happy Independence Day…”

I remember when Ron used to get all excited because he was going to his favorite place in the whole world.  The hardware store.  I could never comprehend how he would go in there and spend a long time just going through the aisles and then coming out with just a few items. Now IContinue reading “A good high…a visit to the hardware store…hurray!!!”

Sorry.  Not a pretty picture to start with.  But this will help to illustrate my experience of early today.  One of the tasks I wanted to accomplish before closing on the house was to have the air conditioner unit serviced.  I dreaded doing this and kept on postponing it until almost the last moment.  Why? Continue reading “And the verdict is…”