Posted by Loulou on Jun 30, 2025 | 12 comments

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 Good morning, all. May this brighten your day. 👎👎👎 Especially since: Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo also called out that at a press conference in the Netherlands last Wednesday, Trump said he had given Iran permission to bomb a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 29, 2025 | 20 comments

Sweltering snooze selfie…. Well, not so fun when the AC is tempermemtal! But our nice guy will be back in town today and says he’ll try to come by TODAY, Sunday, if her can get here, or it has to be tomorrow. Mama is making extra ice cubes… At least the tomatoes like this weather! But so many do not  have AC and so will suffer in this...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 28, 2025 | 18 comments

Ninety degrees and I am tuckered! The AC even went out up here, can you believe it? I guess no place is without its little glitches nowadays, haha. Keep cool and calm, Do not do strenuous things…maybe lift a glass of iced tea or lemonade. Okay, that’s IT. STOP. 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 This is Lunapic’s Beauty and I liked how it made my normally one-tint...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 27, 2025 | 12 comments

Am I staying cool or what? My cloud has AC… Well, it’s just to hot to think, so I let mama take these on: 1. Lately, my main focus is __trying not to have the orange-haired madman in my daily life. 2. I crave __cool suppers and LOVE reading during a nap in the hot middle of the day_. 3. I get my best ideas __when cooking or gardening. 4. I only...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 26, 2025 | 14 comments

So cool in garden leaves. Making sure that strong wind didn’t whip the tomatoes right off their vines! Even where I hang out up there, it’s HOT. Merci to all of you. All readers. For alll comments, love them. For balmy, soft summer days, For the wind from the Sahara that coated everything with light brown sand yesterday to have died down and...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 24, 2025 | 22 comments

  Tuckered on the turf…a lazy garden visit… Well, mama has been pulling weeds in this heat and making cookies and trying to clean up around here and sending things to grandkids that are long overdue and writing her Substack and more so let’s just say that she and I are in tuckered-out mode today. We’ll be back refreshed...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 23, 2025 | 18 comments

Before the stats, a spark for the week: Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Ain’t that the truth! Well, we had heat in the 30s this morn and the sweet 96-year-old friend, Lilly, whom we take by the sea each week has asked to hold off for awhile. It’s just too hot. Our piano competition will begin this week and is always really...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 21, 2025 | 24 comments

Chilling out in the cool mulch… Well, mama has some leftover pork from ribs that papa likes from our Sunday market rotisserie man, Fabrice, a genius with sausages, chickens, ribs, quail and more, and she is stir-frying it later with green onion tops, rice and eggs mixed in at the end with soy sauce, cornstarch, a little sherry and sesame...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 20, 2025 | 12 comments

My comfy cloud 9… and there were 8 more before this one! Mama did these with glee, whoever that is… 1. I avoid __poisonous and negative discussions and anthros__ like the plague. 2. I hope to __Oh, boy, do so many things and see so many events in our little village and cook so many good things and welcome family here and TRY to...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 19, 2025 | 16 comments

Couldm’t resist this wonderful photo that signifies the importance of emancipation.  Today is a national holiday, June Teenth. There may be some who do not know the origin of this very important change in American history, and we are more than thankful for this day of liberation Ms Richardson’s short video explains all, but did we really turn a...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 18, 2025 | 18 comments

We are speechless over the handcuffing of a New York City candidate for Mayor as he accompanied a defendant out of court. No words....

Posted by Loulou on Jun 17, 2025 | 16 comments

  After protests—A REST! Watching over all those peeps everywhere in the USA was not EASY! But what a turnout. Merci, gracias, grazie, thank you to ALL who hit the streets.❤️ YOU ROCK!  ...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 16, 2025 | 12 comments

To thine ownself be true. Act 1, scene 3 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Our spark is an old one but so important today, as always. Follow your heart, your brain, your evidence, your facts and your truths and you will never fail…Stand fast in your knowledge and trust yourself. If you can, please...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 15, 2025 | 18 comments

  Well today it’s only ME with PAPA a few years ago… And Teddy’s mama inspired my mama to put HER papa in the blog, too. HAPPY PAPA’S DAY TO ALL PAPA’S EVERYWHERE. Except one…....

Posted by Loulou on Jun 14, 2025 | 14 comments

Mama’s making pepper paste. This kitty is puttin’ the paws on the paving stones…zzzzzz At the family reunion, mama’s stepgrandkid, Julian, a vegan, made a fantastic pepper paste to dip in with crackers or toss with pasta or simply spoon into one’s mouth! SO delicious. 3 red sweet peppers, roasted and peeled 1/4 cup olive oil...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 13, 2025 | 16 comments

Mama is doing my blog down below, BUT FIRST: Please read about the senator who was thrown to the floor and handcuffed, by members of the homeland security bimbo’s staff, as the Senator tried to address the meeting on immigration. Please read Heather Cox Richardson today. Please. Outrageous. And they can do this to YOU....

Posted by Loulou on Jun 11, 2025 | 14 comments

  A private WC for my watering… 🌺🌸🌺 A wonderful French senator, Claude Malhuret, is speaking out against Washington and Trump. There are English subtitltes. He speaks out almost daily on the danger that T poses to the world, TO ALL OF US, Republicans and Democrats, And now an outspoken Republican, Don Bacon, is showing his courage to go against...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 10, 2025 | 12 comments

Mama, could you clean up this garden, PLEASE, for me? This old mulch is not that comfortable. Maybe I’ll bring my cloud down…. 😻😻😻 If you get a chance to watch a birthday tribute to Joan Rivers on Instagram, do it!!! It brightened mama’s day yesterday as it re-ran some of her favorite jokes and situations. What a wonderful comedian. She...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 9, 2025 | 15 comments

  An old photo but it was my Who Cares photo so I’m using it again. Mama wanted to share these two or three sparks for Monday that the kids and she came up with during our 8-day reunion. Mama started them off with one you know: Just here, just now, just this. Which they loved because NO ONE WANTED TO RUIN OUR GATHERING talking about the dolt who...

Posted by Loulou on Jun 8, 2025 | 16 comments

Watering is not as easy as it appears….. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Mama urges anyone interested in how our democrocy began to watch this fascinating short film by Heather Cox Richardson that is done so well and informs us of our possibly forgotten the resitance to a dictator king that marked the beginning of freedom and justic for all. It is not long and mama and papa...