Who would have thought that 80 degrees would feel so good! The weatherman said that a cold front would be coming through our area overnight and today would be in the low 80s, and that that should really cool things down. And I thought, “That’s cool? He thinks 80 degree temps are [...]

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After traveling all day long, locating and photographing three lighthouses, and coming face to face with Mother Nature on the beach thus diverting our plan to continue to the next lighthouse, we headed back over the bridge toward home.

As we went further north over the bridge, the sun started coming back out.

What a [...]

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This is my second vacation this year! Albeit, both of them have been very short, a vacation is a vacation and I’ll take what I can get. I typically don’t take a lot of vacations. I don’t really need to.
That’s what I love about living in this area. . . you can [...]

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This is the last of the pies this week and I’m sharing yet another Peanut Butter Pie recipe. On the Deliciousness Scale, it runs a close second behind the Peanut Butter Fudge Pie. It’s just a little different. If you’re not into delicous creaminess of the Peanut Butter Fudge Pie and rather [...]

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I’m on a roll with Lulu’s cookbook this week. Because the very next recipe I tried from the book was this Key Lime Pie. I carried to our pool’s opening day BBQ and they all thought it was a perfect way to start off the summer.
I’d actually never eaten a Key Lime Pie [...]

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During my five minute vacation to Gulf Shores, AL last month, we all went to a place called Lulu’s (Lulu is actually Jimmy Buffett’s sister) and it just MY kind of place. . . very margaritaville-like on the Intercoastal waterway next to a marina with beautiful boats only owned by the very wealthy. It [...]

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I think I’m going to designate this Yellow Jeep Blonde Pie Week and stick with this theme because I’ve made some doozies lately, as in OMG delicious! I found this one in one of my many, many jillion cooking magazines that I can’t help but buy if I see them in the store. [...]

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My first recipe right out of the gate (since my return from computer Hell) is an oldie, but a goodie. I so often forget about my old tried and true recipes from back in the day because I’m constantly trying NEW stuff. But this past weekend, I dug out one of my favorite [...]

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For the last year and a half I have been fighting a little known battle within the confines of my home. I didn’t want to talk about it. I was ashamed. I thought it was something that I could fix on my own. I struggled in silence and stuck with it [...]

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