I love oddball cookbooks. Reprints of eighteenth century housewife guides, recipes from Martha Washington’s kitchen, Shaker cookbooks, I love them. I also enjoy modern cookbooks with an unusual spin. At the library I stumbled across The Unofficial Downton Abby Cookbook. I haven’t watched a lot of the show, but I enjoy its theming. For a […]
Archive for May, 2017
A short cookbook review
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged cookbooks on May 30, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
How do you save money when you are broke?
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Cheap living on May 24, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t completely abandoned the original theme of this blog, and that is living cheaply. One of the things that always annoyed me about some blogs is that they seem to assume that you are being frugal because you want to, not because you have no money. How can you take advantage of sales and […]
Not my baby!
Posted in Disney, Random Thoughts on May 21, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, it’s not actually that bad. Tomorrow my youngest, age 19, has to show up for jury duty. I know that she will almost surely be released, since I used to work in law enforcement and they don’t want to have jurors with ‘influences’. But it still is a stark reminder that my girls are […]
Have I mentioned I’m a Disney junkie?
Posted in Disney on May 17, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Well, for the parks, anyway. I feel no need to see every single movie, and my house is not plastered with Mickey Mouse. Today I found a new site. It’s called Parkeology, and it has interesting articles. Its big claim to fame, however, is that it hosts the WDW47 Challenge. The challenge? Ride all 47 […]
Mother’s Day at the Poor House
Posted in Random Thoughts on May 15, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
*groan* Lordie, I’m tired. It always amazes me how often holidays ‘for Mom’ turn into a day Mom gets to work to create the fun the family thinks she should have. I imagined yesterday as a golden day when my kids helped me create the herb garden that lurks in my dreams. One of them […]
Oops again.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Since the last time I posted, I have had a number of health ups and downs. I have decided that to lift my spirits and get my mind off my neverending battle with the feds over disability, I need to start writing again. This time, though, it’s going to be a bit different. Let’s face […]