Espresso........


Do you know how many people mispronounce the word *Espresso*?
It word is pronounced phonetically, it is eSpresso not eXpresso.

Do you know how hard it is to find good, edible Christmas cookies in any grocery or bakery? Thankfully our daughter made Christmas cookies so my yearly 3 cookie fix has been satisfied.

The Hot Sign is one of the things our Grandsons will remember fondly from their childhood and their outings with Oma &...

But I want to put this on Sunday so I am.
I went to bed before I wrote the blog.


The holiday season is once again making it's way into our moments of life. It is the time of year many get overly emotional, dramatic and further in debt. We do not participate in the overly emotional, dramatic or further in debt. We barely go to the grocery from the week before Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve. We prefer a nice, quiet, peaceful, non dramatic, debt free life.
We...

The clocks change today and hopefully everyone has adjusted their clocks so they are not late to work, school, appointments or lunch tomorrow.
I have to change browsers so I'll continue this in a couple minutes.
I'm back and the only reason I wanted to change browsers is because I have spell check on one and not the other.
So, how do you spring forward? Is this the time of year you dread or look forward to? How do you fall back? I have a theory how this time of year goes along...

Halloween, all Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day. Full of ghouls, goblins, spirits, children, candy, parties, door to door scares without a care in the thoughts of the children.
The children want to dress up, "scare" others, have fun and eat candy until they are sick.
Adults basically do the same thing except some add alcohol to the mix along with their less than family friendly costumes. It is shameful that one tradition cannot be left unsexed up.
Personally...

yet I am like a moth going to the flame, I know it is going to hurt but I go anyway.
Almost nothing can be opined without someone being defensive or offended. One cannot pose a valid question about a post that has been posted as a fact even though the OP and every else has a strong idea that the post is not an actual known by the OP fact.
The disregard for basic ToS by members and many moderators. The constant attempt to shame anyone for anything they have written, the automatic...