It's Flyday!

Here's your Flyday photo of the week.

It's going to be a happy weekend here. A little conversation. A little chowing down. Have the same at your house.

Love,
TCB

Families Grow Up

My little boy....

has flown the coop for two weeks of camp.

When did he get too big to want to stay home with me all the time? (sniffle, sniffle)

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

The Boy Scouts are cruel to Mamas. Tell everyone I said so.

Hope your week is less lonely than mine.

At least there's this.....

....to keep me busy.

Happy day to you.

Love,
TCB

Flyday Fun

Every Friday (henceforth known as Flyday), I'll bring a silly photo to you, courtesy of something in our lives. Here's to the first Flyday photo session....

Side view....

Happy weekend!
TCB

Family and Freedom

I hope you all are enjoying time with your family and friends today, as I am. We are happy for the freedom to do so each day in our great USA. In the spirit of family and the freedom to be as crazy as we want to be, I bring you some photos of our country life. Crazy maybe, but there's never a time we are bored without the big city lights.

I won't explain any of these photos - that may just make them crazier.

Happy Independence Day!

Much love,
TCB

Summer Reunions

Did you think I had fallen into the river and floated 50 miles downstream? I know I haven't written in two weeks; I've been spending time with my peeps. (Sorry for the silly rhyme; I couldn't resist).

I've been doing the family thing. For a whole week, we traveled out of town to a family reunion with lots of cousins and such. My son lives for his week at Hickory Knob State Park in South Carolina. We sometimes still call it "Hicky Knob," his name for it when he was two years old.

Boy cousins run around everywhere - on foot, on bikes, in the lake, in the pool, and in the woods.

They drag unsuspecting victims who are slightly older - but still young at heart - into two-mile hikes when they would normally be sleeping in the lounge chair.

By the end of the week, they are exhausted.

But we all leave happy.

Enjoy the Independence Day holiday this week. It's a time to appreciate our country, and the friends and family that make it so special to be here in the USA.

All this month, I will be blogging about family-related issues. See you later this week.

Love,
TCB

Single Girl Supper

When the fellows in my house go out of town to have fun - fishing, watching a NASCAR race, camping, or some such "boy stuff" I'd rather leave to the two of them - I usually putter around all day, doing this and that. At the end of the day, we live far enough out that it's not convenient to run out and grab a dinner to go. Besides, I usually have dirt under my fingernails from digging in the garden all day. The guys turn up their noses, but it's my idea of fun.

So, back to supper. When I get hungry enough about sundown, I'll find a few leftovers or whip up something "girly" that no one else in the house would ever consider fit to be called supper.

Here's what happened the other weekend when they ran off to the racetrack.

Leftover quiche from the meal I made the same morning, heirloom cherry tomatoes, and leftover grilled shrimp from the previous night. If there was any testosterone in the house, I would have been run out for suggesting this was a proper supper.

It was just right for me.

Here's one version of my quiche, but you can use just about anything you have on hand. I believe this one was ham and Swiss cheese.

Sometimes it's great to live simply, eat simply, and save money.

Have a wonderful day.
Love,
TCB

Best Friends

Best Friends

Have a happy day. Call or see your best friend!

Love,

TCB