judypirillo

by the chimney with care.  Well, we don’t have a chimney but we do still hang up our stockings.  Yep, even though my brothers and sister are over 60 and I am staring it in the face, even though we don’t have a niece, nephew, or child under the age of 30, we all still [...]

When our sons were little, we would go out and look at the Christmas lights during the holiday season.  I don’t know if they remember it as being fun, but I do.  It was an evening spent together enjoying and appreciating the efforts of those who decorated.  Besides, it was free entertainment!  (When you have [...]

Baby, it’s cold outside!  You may have unglued yourself from the PC long enough to hear that the Midwest is getting a blast of nasty winter weather.  I don’t think where we live got it as bad as other parts of the State or other States but it was bad enough to make getting to [...]

I have always been a little on the chubby side.  Even when I weighed only 100 pounds (many, many, many years ago) I was slightly thick around the middle.  And a flat tummy?  Ha, I never knew what that was.
Well, I have fought with weight all my life and it usually wins. I have been [...]

While it is always fun, exciting and adventuresome traveling and visiting family, it is also really, really, really nice to get back home.  There is nothing like being in your own bed or in your own space.  I think that is why I like traveling in the RV so much more than staying in motels.  [...]

Well, that is what Thanksgiving will probably be to us this year.  Joe and I are headed for Benjamin and Amber’s (son and daughter-in-law) house this week.  We’ve Thanksgiving"ed" Texas for several years now.  This year we will go out for dinner rather than make a big meal at home.  We decided there would be [...]

                                            
While in Washington, we were able to spend quite a bit of time sight seeing.  I wrote about what we did in the Seattle area (and thanks to everyone who gave me even MORE Seattle area ideas!).  I wanted to write about and post pictures of MT. Rainier.
I think the MT. [...]

Since Veterans Day fell on a Sunday (November 11) this year, the memorial service at our State Capitol grounds was held yesterday.  There was a small crowd of people attending, maybe about 100 or so.  Not really a great turn out for a town the size of Des Moines, Ia. but at least there were [...]

When I was a young girl Autumn had a definite flavor to it. Candied apples, caramel corn, candy corn with peanuts, popcorn balls all seemed to appear only for eating in the Fall.  I think that still rings true today, however, there is something about Fall that many people never experienced.  It’s not the taste [...]

We aren’t huge movie goers but venture into the theatre maybe once every other month.  I am not sure if it is for the movies or for the movie popcorn and candy :0 The types of movies we like tend toward comedies or "makes ya feel good" shows.  I am definitely not into scary or [...]