Jane Penttinen's (jane_p) Blog

                    It's time to call it a night.  The fun and games of Halloween are done for this year.  Tom had really BIG fun playing with all the kids who came trick or treating and now he will start thinking about next Halloween.

Halloween is Tom's FAVORITE holiday!  Tom is my husband of 40+ years.  He loves Halloween better than any other holiday!  When our daughters were little, he would build a huge haunted house on our patio.  It would take him days to set it all up.  I don't know who enjoyed it more, Tom or our two d...

I read a disturbing article this morning and all I could think was can this REALLY be happening in America? The fire department in Chester, PA has a rule that mandates all stickers and statements - union, cartoon and political - be stripped from lockers so as not to offend anyone.  On Friday, a s...

One of the best things I like about living in Tucson is the dramatic storms we get.  From my patio I can watch the storm clouds building and moving up through the valley.  Many times there is a lot of lightening dancing through the sky and ferocious winds.  Usually, there will be torrential rain ...