Posted by Loulou on Oct 8, 2015 | 8 comments

Let’s make a pesto of ourselves, haha! Oh, boy, some kids are really lucky. Mama gets really tickled when she sees the weekly menus in the newspaper for the kids’ lunches at schools around here, but this lunch in Italy is particularly amazing. Isn’t that a great idea to introduce kids to music in such a creative way. And I loved looking...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 7, 2015 | 4 comments

  (Thanks to Rosiland Nelson for sending these great kitty pics to me, Loulou, even though I was a bit jealous of this one’s cute-itude) Well, this about says it all for today. I’m taking a one-day break but I’ll tell you one thing.  I don’t lie like that when mama is helping ME!!! That kitty clearly uses a ghost writer....

Posted by Loulou on Oct 5, 2015 | 5 comments

Well, if there is anything better to cheer up a sad mama, I don’t know it.  The market here is so very beautiful and so full of lovely autumn mushrooms and wonderful cross-bred apples–red Granny Smiths, for example–and so many vegetables just aching to be sautéed with garlic and hot peppers and tossed with pasta. Cepes (brush with olive...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 4, 2015 | 6 comments

Marathon Morning Well, this is not easy to write about, because mama doesn’t have any illusions about past or future lives that one might live, preferring to try to be in the present and see what that’s all about since figuring it out is pretty challenging anyway, but mama and papa were out watching a marathon this morning that takes place here...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 3, 2015 | 8 comments

A very young piper A very young soldier Mama’s brother died two nights ago in Kerrville after a long illness associated with dementia. He was in great pain, could not breathe, and all of us in the family feel that he is in a much better place now. Lengthy illnesses are terribly sad for everyone, but especially for mama’s sister-in-law who was...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 2, 2015 | 5 comments

Well, this morning I tried to go out as usual and was hit by a fierce wind and water coming down all over my newly-washed pelt! The nerve of Mama Nature to pour gallons of water on our town, so much that there are actually guys out there trying to surf–in the Mediterranean! I think they are on the wrong sea and might move a bit west to the Hawaiian...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 1, 2015 | 2 comments

(www.goerie.com–thank you) Well, the other night, mama and papa and I watched as a big yellow ball in the sky slowly disappeared into darkness, except it wasn’t dark as in black, as in blotted out, but instead became a lovely round, rose-colored orb in the night sky with Orion (whoever he is) and the Milky Way softening the darkness with their...