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Sneaky Sunday

Posted by 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...

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Sat Cat Update on Rasta

Posted by 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...

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Saturday Selfie on Schist

Posted by 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...

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Fillin’ Friday

Posted by 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...

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Merci, Thursday

Posted by 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...

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Shhh….

Posted by 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....

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Tuesday Tickles

Posted by 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...

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Monday Meditations

Posted by on Dec 1, 2025 | 16 comments

  Well, on this chlly day I am NOT walking away from my snuggle cloud… You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. Joan Didion Mama loved this because she loves change and chance…hey, nice names for kitties, no? Well, no! Who wants to be called Change or Chance, duh? But we do love Ovid’s saying, too: Chance is always...

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Posted by 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!...

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Filling Ins

Posted by 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...

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Talkin’ Turkey

Posted by 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...

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Wordless, Sort Of…

Posted by 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...

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Tuesday Tickles

Posted by 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...

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MONDAY Talk

Posted by 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...

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Monday Must-Says

Posted by 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?...

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Sweet Sunday

Posted by 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...

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Saturday Matterday

Posted by 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...

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Fill-in Funnies

Posted by 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...

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A Happy Pair

Posted by 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...

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True Monday

Posted by 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...

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