You are here: Home / family I was virtually grandson sitting earlier this morning while Miss M was tie dying. (Dyed & Company does marvelous work on quality apparel and home goods. See below.) We were chatting on g-chat or whatever. I had emailed him a screenshot of something earlier and he said he’d never seen a screenshot before, so I
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Text from Miss M referring to our grandson & my reply. Obviously, I’m going to have to Skype him and give him a nice gentle talking to.
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Originally published on February 19, 2021; Added some photos SALE! 15% OFF EVERYTHING AT DYED & COMPANY now through Sunday! Use the code THANKYOU at checkout. Free Shipping. Follow Dyed & Company on Instagram. Everything 15% off at Dyed and Company now through Sunday! Free shipping in the USofA. Use the code THANKYOU at checkout. Hurry before the handcrafted quality
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Daughter C & The J-Man’s gift to us. Tiger in his classic photograph pose turned into a pillow. Cutest thing ever! [This is not where it will live. I just thought it would make a nice background.]
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Our last house was built on a hill such that one could go ’round to the door and walk straight into the basement. The Girls claimed the basement. None of The Girls lived at home by the time we moved, but a couple of their best buds came over and help deconstruct years of growing
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Mr. Big Food is spending the week putting together his lectures and slides for classes which start next Monday. He includes an “about me” slide or two so students know he’s a real person. These are the photos he’ll use. And now. Back to work.
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I was thoroughly unhappy with my original idea for a gift from Tiger the Cat to Little Tommy. So I’m racking my brains and doing DDG searches, and this is the help I get. It goes without saying that neither Tiger nor Tommy smoke weed. But I laughed. Never ceases to amaze me what they
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How did I miss this? From Mr. Big Food’s Dad who emailed– a week ago!– Looks like some beautiful items for the “crappy” old books section of “big food,etc “… And he was right! Lovely.
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Bit of a departure this morning. Mr. Big Food’s Aunt Bea is enjoying the posts on boys and sends along a couple of items. This she picked up at the Hoover Presidential Library. She framed it, and it hung on a wall of their farm in East Texas for over 30 years.
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Which of The Daughters created this masterpiece? I’ll let you know as soon as they tell me!
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May your days, too, be filled with such joy!
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The theme is wheat and other grasses. Not quite Still Summer but, as is becoming undeniable given the later sunrises and earlier sunsets, no longer Summer. You may ask, and it’s a legitimate question, “Why? Why bother? It’s not like anyone is going to see it except you and Mr. Big Food.” Why not? What’s
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This was the scene at Miss M’s place yesterday and I’m told that the pile has increased by several orders of magnitude with today’s deliveries. Hum. That went down a rabbit hole quickly. Let’s backtrack. ‘Phen is the cutest little boy you have ever seen. And since I am not allowed to– nor would I,
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The card says, “Aren’t you glad you have a daughter with her own private library?” It will come as no surprise that my 84 year old mom is missing her local library. She loves to read. Yesterday she was lamenting the fact that she was reduced to re-reading things in her own private library which
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His current favorite book is Winnie the Pooh, and he loves to play outside. He sleeps with Seven, his stuffed dog. His chore is feeding the cat, Sadie. He’ll be four in July. Also, Miss M had to change the YouTube settings recently. He was searching for “xxxxxxx.”
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Ice Box Biscuits, Shrimp Arnaud, and Baked Omelet. Delicious. And! Mr. Big Food and his dad did all of the dishes– even the fancy stuff by hand. Happy Day, Moms!
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Had to call Miss M. Out in the garden this afternoon. Heard screeching. Looked up– way up— and saw two, no three, hawks soaring. Red tailed right? I could see their tail bars. Oh. Red tailed hawks have red tails. No bars. Red shouldered it is. It’s so nice that among the five of them–
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Sunday evening Mr. Big Food called his folks. You know how you can understand an entire conversation by only listening to one side? Not good. The Independent Living Facility in which Mr. Big Food’s Dad and Mr. Big Food’s Mom live had gone sort of lockdown last week. And those Independent Kids being who they
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to a devise near you– Four Days Worth of Posts from Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life. Because Life is Big and I’ve been engaged in Big Things!
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Here’s the story. Mr. Big Food is teaching two sections of Business Ethics this semester. It’s a service course. It’s not his area of expertise, but he’s good at it and he likes it, so he does it so that the junior faculty don’t have to. The students are mostly junior and senior business majors,
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