Ramblings of a Silver Haired Lady
Our drive through Tennessee looked like this.Our drive through Kentucky looked like this.Bubba saw none of it because he looked like this.Our drive through the middle of Missouri looked like this. When we finally arrived in St. Joseph the temperature was 26. It dropped a few degrees during the night and a bit of snow …
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I’ve been tagged by Marie (a good friend of Amanda and one of her bridesmaids) to list 10 things that make me happy. So, here they are in no particular order (well, maybe after the first four): Tommy–he is truly my best friend. Good thing too since we spend so much time together. He very …
I started out last week by playing Mahjong with my sister-in-law Anne, Linda and Deb. What fun this game is. We usually play 4-5 hours at a time and it’s never quite long enough.Saturday night was the annual Brownell side of the family get together for dinner and Tripoley.I would say that this is my …
Hall’s, Amanda’s and Tommy’s alma mater, the Darlington Tigers, played in the semi-finals of the State football championships last night. So Tommy and I decided to go up for the game. We left home early and went to Schroeder’s for a bite to eat (a must when in Rome). When we walked in we saw …
My dad would have been 100 years old today. I so wish that he’d lived a much longer life.
Our Turkey Day plans included visiting one more waterfall. Our route took us up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and then down Hwy. 276. It was a beautiful day for hiking 2-3 miles to find Log Hollow Falls. There were actually two different falls–the first one being Log Hollow Branch and the second one is …
I hope you all have a very happy Thanksgiving and that you get lots of yummy food to eat. Since we had our meal on Sunday, the only traditional Thanksgiving food we’ll have is pumpkin pie. We still have some left over. Yummy! I think we may go waterfall hunting again today. We went yesterday …
Our friends, Julian and Sue, left yesterday morning to head back home. We had an enjoyable visit with them. Sue and I went shopping in Brevard on Tuesday and then met the guys for lunch at Dugan’s Pub. After filling our bellies, we headed out for more shopping. The plan was we would get back …
After many, many years of not paying any attention to the waterfalls all around us, we decided to hunt some out on this trip. Because we needed to go to town for a grocery store run we headed across the mountain to Hwy. 276. Part of the road we travel is gravel/dirt. It’s actually a …