IF ONLY IN MY...

DREAMS... I have always wanted to be in a magazine.   I am just giddy with delight and the COVER.  Crazy.  So hurry to your newstand today.  It will be available until June 15th.   It is very well written, with the main focus on the interiors of our 1890 abode.  Enjoy.  Have a great Memorial Day weekend.  I look forward to some sand,seafood,vino, and the Colorado cousins.

Holy Batman, Robin!

HOLY BATMAN,  ROBIN!

I just came home from the grocery store and thought my bill was a little high.  I use to put my receipt in a drawing for free groceries, but I guess with the recession they decided to stop all that nonsense...any who.  Well, I actually looked at my receipt and care to guess?  No, it was not an organic tomato, in fact it was an "ugly" tomato, seriously an UGLY tomato!  Drumroll please...$4.64.  Four dollars and sixty-four CENTS for a TOMATO.   Well, hell's bells when you pay FOUR DOLLARS and SIXTY FOUR CENTS for a TOMATO, your bill is going to be high. Well, of course it was a good-looking tomato for being so damn ugly.  If I had not wanted the BLT of my dreams, and the idea of taking two boys to the grocery store at the end of the day did not repeal me, I would have taken it back.  Bad Publix Bad!  O.K., I'm still trying to justify the tomato, I am hoping that the arugula, red-tipped lettuce, basil from my garden, along with my Costco bacon will offset my fabulous B.L.T.  I should have taken a picture of the B.L.T., but considering that I gobbled it in an upright position seconds after I put the top on(bread) and gave it a good firm smash, as the splash of balsamic, generous smear of hellman's, layers of basil, arugula, lettuce, bacon out the wah-zoo, and  that tomato...Well, it was never to be plated or ever seen again.  However, I did take a picture of  THE TOMATO.  Enjoy.