Marnie, Stanlee's Mom's Blog (5)

A number of years ago I started a tradition of having a Christmas in July holiday dinner at our house.  I love turkey dinner.  I love the turkey and all of the wonderful side dishes that go with it and can’t figure out why we have it only twice a year.  So that said, I purchase the most inexpensive meat there is – turkey – and off I go on a mission to serve up the works with all of the holiday spirit.  This year I was…

 Oh my goiter............my mom is coming over for dinner tonight so I spent about an hour and a half last night prepping and cubing meat, onions, potatoes, and carrots for the pot roast I plan on serving. I wanted to be able to just throw it all into the crockpot this morning with no hassle so everything was neatly stored in disposable Ziploc bags for a no fuss/no muss and easy-peasy morning. In the meantime I realized…

I was running errands this past weekend and walking through the Renaissance Center in downtown Tallahassee, passed by a wall hanging I had never noticed before.  Looking up I stopped dead in my tracks because on the wall hung a collage of photos depicting Tallahassee's Top Dog for the year 2011 - a labradoodle named Ari.  As a doodle owner and lover, it thrills me to see…

Some of you mentioned that you didn’t know what a loblolly pine was so I took some time out of my not-so-busy schedule to put together a photo “montage”.  I took my happy booty out this weekend and took a few pictures to share in the hopes that my complaints about our springtime pollen would sink in.  (Ignore the pretty flowers in the background and concentrate on the horror of Spring in…

Leaving work yesterday I hopped enthusiastically into my gas-guzzling SUV, buckled up, and rolled down the windows.  It was a balmy 80 degrees and I was excited that Spring had arrived.  I slid Sting into the CD player and sped out of the parking lot like a member of the mass exodus of the Great Plains in 1933. …