It's all catching up to me, thus I've been out of touch.

"Never put anything on the internet that you would not want to see on the front page of the paper in the morning"

This advice was given to me long ago - and it's something that my husband REALLY feels strongly about. As I stated in my very first post - this blog will be filtered.

Life right now for me isn't great - I'm having neighbor issues with both homes, renter issues, a legal issue stiring, a home I can't sell (still 3 mortgages), job stress, and Ripley has began to think that maybe he doesn't HAVE to wait for the chickens, peacocks, or guineas to come into HIS yard - to cull them.

We are all healthy and not yet to the funny farm. I'm just finding happy things to blog about challenging.

The good news is that we have booked some time away. Spenser is going home for a visit in just 11 days - and Roger and I (with Sharon and Jerry) are taking a 3 week trip in September.