I love dachshunds!  Speck is my third dachshund and by far, he’s my best one.  When Vince and I met I didn’t have a dachshund.  Not long after Vince and I started talking about getting married, I explained to him that I MUST have a dachshund in order to be happy.  Hmmm . . that [...]

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I’m afraid to even get in one of our vehicles.  Don’t they say bad things come in “3’s”?  Let’s just count my accident a bit over a month ago as #1.  I did get my Honda out of the shop Friday and it looks good as new but I really don’t feel the same about [...]

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Last night I finally finished the top I had hoped to finish Monday!  Earlier this week, I also got the LSU top quilted and because I’m such a good daughter (hear that mom?), I went ahead and added the binding so all mom has to do is do the hand stitching.

And, I finished writing the [...]

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What do you do when you can’t pry yourself away from the TV . . watching the predictions of where Gustav will land?  My sister in New Iberia - she and her husband went to their camp north of Natchez, Mississippi.  Her son - he stayed at their house in New Iberia.  Not what I [...]

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There’s a million ways to make this border but here’s how I do it.
1.  I use this Kabnet Wax paper pre-cut sheets that I buy at Sam’s Club.  The sheets are 12″ x 10-3/4″.

2.  Lay a strip of fabric face up somewhere on the center of the paper.  The strip can be any width you [...]

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Friends have had kids move out and move back; move out and move back!  I’ve told Chad that when he moves out, there ain’t no comin’ back and I mean it.  I suppose there are circumstances where I’d agree to his moving back — illness, job loss due to company shutting down (not because he [...]

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It’s hard to even know how to pray in a situation such as this because the darned hurricane has to go somewhere and anywhere it goes, there’s going to be devastation and much heartache.  But do you see right there where it’s headed??  Houma!  That’s where I was 2 weeks ago teaching and those ladies [...]

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Today I said goodbye to two old appendages.

This is a picture from several years ago but see underneath my right eye and you probably can’t see it but on my right nostril, there were two moles.  They’ve been there forever but they were getting bigger.  I’ve been needing to have them taken off but it’s [...]

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Do you ever wonder how “things” got started and question why we continue to do things . . because that’s how we’ve always done them??
One of the comments about the representative’s visit questioned whether it was rude to visit without calling ahead.  It’s all in how you were raised and what you were taught.  Because [...]

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There are advantages and disadvantages to living in a small town.  There are no advantages to being a bit too outspoken.
Back in July when I had my little accident, I contacted my state representative to inquire as to why we don’t have a “no driving while gabbing on the cell phone law” and to ask [...]

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