Posted by Loulou on Jul 11, 2025 | 12 comments

Well, mama did these but I have my own filler for that first one, which is that I am happy and pain-free in my new ‘life’ and hope to help calm these crazed-weasel anthros whose world is so rickety rockety right now. 😻🩷☺️ ************ 1. A word to describe my life right now would be __surprising. 2. YOU KNOW WHO__drives me batty! 3. When it...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 11, 2025 | 8 comments

  Yes it is surprising that there is so very much to be thankful for despite the sorrows of the world and it’s precarious spin, but the full Buck Moon and its beauty tonight made everything stop for a moment and just be. Just be. Mama looked at that moon and marveled at how lovely it made the night sky and then thought about so many things to be...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 9, 2025 | 16 comments

Rain cloud… Donc, I have no words for any of this craziness today. Appropriate, non? But still, to have NO WORDS at all? Maybe a little rest isn’t such a bad...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 8, 2025 | 16 comments

Well, mama doesn’t usually publish long pieces, but this one is fun, and I was still being catnapped to Italy from my new secure status in my little village home, but I thought you might enjoy the rerun with its recipes for summer dishes, Tonnato Time – Summer in the City Everyone is worried about me because I’m lethargic. And why not?...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 7, 2025 | 14 comments

❤️ Our hearts go out to Texas and the loss of so many. No words suffice for this tragedy. ******** Our spark today is from Victor Hugo: Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” The United States of America became a nation of people who overcame powerful adversity to create a strong and influential country that would come to the aid of others...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 6, 2025 | 16 comments

  Don’t tell me that Big Abominable Bill passed!!!! Sunday...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 5, 2025 | 14 comments

Well, mama found this wonderful effect on Lunapic, of course, and it’s called Adventure. Maybe I’m about to have one, non? You never know around here… Mama is having one for sure. After 98.6 degrees earlier, it rained! Now it has stopped and tomorrow is another HOT day. Go figure… ***** We are so very sad about the Guadalupe River...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 4, 2025 | 22 comments

Well, mama filled in today. They are handing out earplugs where I am and I’m in line for my pair! Hey, you guys, I’m an XS, I think. Silly whisker shot! ***** 1. My plans for July 4th include __a little grilled chicken with rosemary and garlic and memories of and reflections on how we became the USA! 2. I __LOVE the art of fireworks, but not...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 3, 2025 | 16 comments

Uh, could the weatherpeople up there send a bit more AC? This garden is simmering… ***** For you, as always, and above all, thanks always  for you! For a blooming hibiscus that always fools us as it lies asleep in winter. For a second rose-bloom because of this heat. For a cool breeze today from the sea. For the upcoming Women’s March tomorrow....

Posted by Loulou on Jul 2, 2025 | 14 comments

We have computers up here….I’m writing my Senator and Congress-person. We have no words today for what is happening to those on Medicaid, social programs to help the needy, the addition to an already HUGE deficit,.no words. If you read Ms Cox report, you will see that when you thought things could not get worse, they are doing just that. A...

Posted by Loulou on Jul 1, 2025 | 19 comments

Mama says we can’t hide from what is happening…. Please take a look. Your health is being manipulated by the administration and a heath quack named Kennedy. I have to publish this when it conerns all of us. ALL of us. On a happier note: Mama ate these in Italy long ago where she found them often on the counter at food shops, ready to nibble. 1...

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...