Posted by Loulou on Dec 8, 2025 | 14 comments

I froze the moment, mama. I froze the momen… Mama loves to make up haikus or sing them and she found this one hilarious: To freeze the moment / In seventeen syllables / Is very diffic John Cooper Clarke Have you ever written a haiku? Let’s share them and have some fun. Good for the brain for sure. See below ours: Here is ours today. Read it at...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 7, 2025 | 12 comments

My sneaky selfie…. I knew there were lots of lemons, mama, but it’s pretty hard to communicate properly from here, haha…. Well, now that mama can SEE without her cataracts, she sees that there are a gazillion lemons on our tree, just about ready for the neighbors in January or February and then we will have to prune a bit. She thought...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 6, 2025 | 22 comments

Here’s my Dreaming effect from Lunapics…I find Rasta a bit dreamy, haha. ***** Well, here’s the news on Rasta. That kitty looks ten times better after his flea pipette between the ears! He’s not scratching, his fur is lovely, and he’s gaining a bit of weight, which is good for his 17-year-old thin-ish bod. At least he looks...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 6, 2025 | 2 comments

  Came down yesterday while the sun was warming our stepping stones… Mama loved this saying so just put it in today for us to think about. Ms Dickinson was such a wonderful writer and thinker, non? How are your holidays going? Are you happy or in the doldrums of a year ending? Have you any special foods you are making, because mama wants to...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 5, 2025 | 14 comments

Feeling holiday-ish up here… 1. The easiest one on my Christmas shopping list to buy for is __just about any grandchild, who all help by saying what they need! 2. The toughest one in my Christmas shopping list to buy for is __my honey because at this time of life, he has just about everything! 3. MAMA trie to spread Christmas cheer by __making...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 4, 2025 | 14 comments

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. Maya Angelou And oh, what a moon last night! Mama finally put up our little tree…well, it was already up, but THEY put it in the house and mama suffocated trimmed it with old and wonderful ornament. But many of our decorations do not fit on a tiny tree, alas. Mama’s brother had a company...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 3, 2025 | 18 comments

I’m having a happy dream… (PS Tomorrow night is the last full moon of this year and the biggest it will ever look, THEY tell me. Hope for no clouds and happy moonbeams to you....

Posted by Loulou on Dec 2, 2025 | 14 comments

WHERE IS MY NAPKIN, MAMA? ***** Mama has just decided to stick with Tuesday Tickles to bring some fun into our Tuesday blog (plus it’s so convenient to know what one is doing instead of having to think something up each time haha, n’est-ce pas?) so with that in mind, here goes… Once long ago in Berkeley (!) mama had friends to...