Posted by Loulou on Nov 29, 2025 | 18 comments

Well, here’s our Saturday shortened kitty, because mama did not do well with that pic clicker but what the heck. I look like the letter L, for Loulou, haha. Have a lovely Saturday and we’ll be back tomorrow with a Sunday selfie…. We think. Haha here’s the other half of me!...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 28, 2025 | 10 comments

Pondering my wish list to Santa…sort of. This is called sleep yoga by some. 🎄 🎄 🎄 1. My Christmas tree goes up on __Dec.1st. 2. I am thankful for __a little live tree we have used for 3 years, __that it is still alive (!) and __really tiny ornaments to fit itm haha_. 3. I __hope to be organized HAHA by the time December rolls around. 4. I’ll be...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 27, 2025 | 24 comments

  While I clean up for today’s events, I will share with you our annual Turkey Video for your morning giggle. So thankful for humor in these somber days. So thankful for you and you and you and your spirit and friendship and often guidance during the rough straits we are all trying to navigate as carefully as possible. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 26, 2025 | 20 comments

Wow, supervising those puddings was WORK! And so today, well, today we are wordless EXCEPT for this: Suzanne’s Plum Pudding 1 ½ cups dried apricots, chopped semi fine 1 cup dates or figs, chopped semi fine 1 cup dried prunes, chopped semi fine 1 cups golden raisins, sprinkled with a little brandy or rum 1 cup black raisins, sprinkled with a little...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 25, 2025 | 16 comments

LOVED Jimmy Carter’s, haha! A few giggles for your Tuesday tickles. So cold here, even my cloud is a bit frosty around the edges! Well, not my cloud exactly but someone’s… ***** No news except that mama made her plum puddings last night and today they’ll be doused with Cognac and wrapped in cheesecloth, then plastic wrap and frozen...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 24, 2025 | 16 comments

We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are. 🌺🌺🌺 Ain’t that the truth sometimes? Smell the flowers… More funnies. Okay, okay, mama will stop! MAMA, cut it out!! ***** I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. I was wondering why the...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 24, 2025 | 0 comments

I’m pondering that and oui, it’s the truth especially right now! 🐈‍⬛🐈😸  It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. “No Name in the Street” James Baldwin Ring any bells?...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 23, 2025 | 22 comments

Maybe a tummy-tickle is in order… 😻😻 😻 Well, the wind has calmed down and the Sunday open market will be open without being blown all over the place as it sometimes is, and the nice Italian couple will have all sorts of ravioli to take home and cook,  and they’ll have these crisp thingies (have to get the name later today!) that are addicting...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 22, 2025 | 14 comments

I was feeling sort of shivery this morn because even up here it’s brrrr winter time! ❄️❄️❄️ Bonjour, and you know what matters to ME? That when a president calls for the EXECUTION of certain Democratic politicians he does not like, he should be tried and imprisoned for treason.  But what matters most is you, dear bloggers and amazing writers and...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 21, 2025 | 16 comments

A two-pas, haha… 1.Falling off my 6-inch heels at the door of a party __ was a faux pas I made once (several times!) My best friend would call out, “HELLO, GRACE!” Also pulling off my top at a swimming pool and I had forgotten my bathing suit top but everyone was looking at something else and didn’t see….. 2. I know every line...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 19, 2025 | 14 comments

Well, having visitors is just so much FUN. Mama’s mind was on so many other wonderful things happening while her dear, dear friends were here that she just let Tuesday slip by…so easy to do when you having lively days like these. And now the friends are off to a neighborhood village to see the art museum, but mama had to work on her pathetic...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 17, 2025 | 14 comments

OOPS…tupped right off my cloud in a snooze. Used to do that on the couch! ***** The irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope. David Jeremiah ***** If only our government could tell the truth about what they are doing and have done to our country. On a sweeter note; 2 apples, peeled, cored...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 15, 2025 | 24 comments

    Laugh and the world laughs with you. Love Mae West’s sage comment…… This is Lunapic’s Tilt Shift for our Saturday photo fun, but mama has no idea what Tilt Shift means, just loved that it showed me REALLY WELL on my snoozing cloud. Pretty cool, I...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 14, 2025 | 7 comments

(I sneaked in to mama’s office to get this post out! THEY were busy greeting our visitors who, by the way ADORED me and kitty-sat once so I have to forgive THEM) Well, if mama HAD one!!! A memory, that is. SHE FORGOT YESTERDAY’S POST  (!)so this is it along with Friday, and to start off, we are thankful to be HOME (well, two of us–one of...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 12, 2025 | 22 comments

I think my cloud went through a little smog today… 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Well, mama and papa were on the road all day Tuesday and of course mama completely forgot to do a Tuesday post, but at least we are doing Wednesday’s, and even if it’s wordless, we do wish to say how sorry we are not to have spoken yesterday with admiration and gratitude for all of...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 10, 2025 | 18 comments

When I came down today to visit Rasta (and take over a bit of MY patio), little sunbeams from where I am all the time came down with me…thoughtful of them, non? ******* If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson We loved this because, well, yes, to stop a breaking heart is pretty important, especially for the one with...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 10, 2025 | 2 comments

A message for our government: Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 8, 2025 | 18 comments

Don’t hang up, don’t delete! Today is a fun-filled Saturday! For a change… Mama hopes you giggle as much as she did this morning, a good way to start the day. Go all the way to Bill Clinton….ha ha ha. A must read! Haha I’m rollin’around with laughter, mama… Me,...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 7, 2025 | 14 comments

  I asked Rasta to stand in for me today…I’m happy to him do the work, haha. What’s he doing on our table? He is one spry kittie! (Photos by Sue Macdonald) ***** 1. My November to do list includes __planting our broad beans, which are a month late to be in the ground,  and __attempting to clean out closets…for the umteenth time. 2....

Posted by Loulou on Nov 6, 2025 | 12 comments

HURRAH FOR ALL OF YOU HARD WORKERS AND FOR ALL OF YOU WHO VOTED!🇺🇸 SO many thanks due to so many others who are working still to keep our citizens free and safe from the Gestapo tactics of our present government. Thank you, all of you who worked so hard for this election, for your enormous work to elect sane respresentatives for your state Democrats scored...