Bless Our Hearts

The phlox are beginning to bloom, dotting the yard with lavender everywhere. That always makes me happy. I will tell you what does NOT ma...

I took that picture last night. Those are some of the tomatoes we'd picked and some of the beans I'd pickled. Today after my walk...

It was a bit cooler this morning and way less humid so I figured that my walk wouldn't be so bad but it was anyway. I think it's ...

Jessie texted this morning that she was going to take the boys down to the Wacissa to see if they could safely play and swim about and in...

I've mentioned before that my friend Lynn was a world-class gift giver. She never had much money to spend on gifts but years and deca...

Last night's fried mullet was the best I ever made. It was perfect in all regards. I can now tell you that mullet freshly frozen is supe...

From my WTF weather app. I forget to even look at it for months at a time but it's so miserably muggy today that I thought I'd g...

Today has been a relatively busy day. I made the shrimp salad for Hank and wish I'd taken a picture. It was a pretty thing. I cook...

Mr. Moon informed me this morning that I talked in my sleep last night. I only said one word and that word was "bullshit." We are...

When I got up this morning it was already eighty-one degrees and the humidity had to be in the nineties. Just nasty muggy. I thought no, ...

Tropical Storm Cristobal is about to land in Louisiana but we've been getting its rain since last night. Rained all night long and ha...

I went to clean the hen house nests this morning to find that Darla has joined her sister in nest-sitting. She, too, is hunkered down and...

I do indeed have a hen on the nest but it's Dottie, not Darla. I'm pretty sure. She's doing that flat-chicken thing, spreadin...