This Week...Catching Up It’s been a busy week for everyone, I’m sure. School started this week and Aunt Kathy was called into after school service to make sure that my great-niece made it to gymnastics. Her mom, an elementary school teacher, along with all of the teachers had to stay at school un
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08/31/2019
Friday Fun...College Colors Day is August 30! You Wearing Yours?It’s Friday so time for some fun. The first full weekend of college football is this weekend. That means lots of tailgate parties, flags flying, people cheering, and liquid beverages and pizza! In the interest of full disclosure, I
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08/30/2019
ActiveRain Groups 101 After writing a post the other day that referenced ActiveRain Group and Bananatude in particular, I thought it might be time to write about groups again. I hope this answers some of your questions, John Henry First of all...joining an ActiveRain Group is not required or nec
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08/29/2019
Wordless Wednesday...Always the BuilderLarry loves to tinker. He is happiest when he can take something apart and fix it. Or if there is something that could be tweaked to make it work better, he’s in his element. After our 100+ temperatures this summer, Larry wanted to see what he could do to
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08/28/2019
Banana Lovers Day is Today But It’s Every Day at ActiveRainYou may think I’ve gone bananas, right!? You’re probably right! Bananas are everywhere...pudding, cereal, muffins, cakes, under ice cream...they’re prolific! In a checkout line once the clerk looked at my bunch of bananas and commented t
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08/27/2019
Monday Motivational...It’s All How You Look At It. My favorite ponderer, Michael Jacobs, has shared two ponderings recently So the Answer Is in the I… and Pondering My Personal Tickler File.My experience yesterday had elements of both of his posts. My local grocery store has a few self check-out
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08/26/2019
What I Learned This Week at ActiveRain-August 18 to August 24, 2019 I learn something new every day at ActiveRain! With this series, I try to highlight one post per day that gave me that lightbulb moment. It could be something techie, something about Real Estate or the other professions that I ne
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08/25/2019
This Week...Some Very Old Wisdom This week I decided to look at some of the wisdom from a distant relative (JUST Kidding!!) of mine. You could put what I know of Confucius on the slip of paper that comes inside a fortune cookie. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust
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08/24/2019
Happy 8th Birthday...Baby Gators Eight years ago today, Larry and I were thrilled, overjoyed, and extremely lucky to be able to see the hatching of about 24 baby gators. We had been watching and waiting for this event for months...from the time Mama Gator slowly began to build her nest up throug
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08/23/2019
National Be An Angel Day is August 22. Have You Spread Your Wings Lately? Have you ever wished or hoped that there was an angel standing by you when you were in need of help or feeling down?In some form or fashion, I believe that angels do exist but perhaps not how we envision them...floating in
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08/22/2019