The Stone Age
My daughter Zee lives in a new housing development where the homes are expensive, made of slabs of stone from a quarry north of San Antonio. For such a pricey neighborhood, I am surprised there are no...
View ArticleFrackin' Shale
The economy may be in a slump everywhere else, but here in the vicinity of Floresville, it's one of of the few places in the United States where it's a boomtown. It's all due to shale oil. Workers...
View ArticleMummies of the World
In December my daughters loaded me and the wheelchair up in the car (with some difficulty) and we went to see the Mummies Of The World Exhibit at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. This venerable museum...
View ArticleBlackjacks & Horse Cripplers
I haven't been out much since I've been here--it's too hard to load me in the car and get me back out again. I'm wobbly as a rag doll from the waist down. But my daughter got me in the car one day and...
View ArticleWarts and All
It's never easy to come in and adjust and adapt to living with another family, even if it's your own daughter, son in law and grand-daughter. S-I-L and I had a big blowout about this; the engine light...
View ArticleHomesick and Unhappy
OMG! I am at the library using a computer, since the wi fi system at my daughter's house just didn't cut it at all. Being here at my daughter and SIL's house has been a trying and emotional experience...
View ArticleHello World
Am I happy right now! Daughter Zee got dial up so I'm gonna try to write something before this thing fizzles on me. I'm moving my legs a wee bit better, but my left knee has been a pain, literally,...
View ArticleWhat's Up?
I suppose I should change the name of my blog from News From Mississippi to News From Texas. (That reminds me of a dumb blond joke Zee's husband told me. The db is on a quiz show and is asked "How do...
View ArticleAnti-depressants
Wednesday Zee and I went to a counseling session, our 11th one, and it has helped tremendously. The insight of a person outside the family helping us plow through family dynamics has been a...
View ArticleWine and Cookies
Hello, and I'm gonna be frank, upright and candid about the horrible events of Saturday morning. My daughter is married to a psycho, a demon possessed SOB, who touts himself as a Christian, but is a...
View ArticleUpdate
It's Monday morning and the horror continued all day Sunday. Zee's psychotic husband ranted and raved all day and somehow his severe mental illness is tangled up with religion and sex. Should I have...
View ArticleRoyal Baby/weiner/ P.deen
Some of this is old news to y'all, but finally having access to a computer is wonderful and I'm just catching up on the Paula Deen story. She was canned from the Food Network when she admitted during...
View ArticleYorkiepoo and a Salmon
My daughter was recently given a Yorkiepoo, a tiny bundle of puppy with black silky hair, who weighs only a pound or so, but is nothing but a ton of pure cuteness and love. The Yorkiepoo, named Poo,...
View ArticleBill Miller
There's a local chain of Bill Miller BBQ restaurants in this part of Texas, and it is one of my favorite places to dine. I love, love their brisket, and the BBQ sauce comes in a cup on the side-a...
View ArticleWhoopie and Barbara
So I hear there was some sniping between Whoopie Goldberg and Barbara Walters on their morning show "The View" and naturally it happened on a day when I wasn't watching. It seems Barbara was hyping a...
View ArticleCall the Midwife--and Doc Martin
I enjoy watching PBS, am a fan Downton Abbey, of course, which is on hiatus. But I'm enjoying two serials at present; one is Call The Midwife. Set in a 1950's English slum, the story is about young...
View ArticleOyster Guts
When I see these cooking shows on Food Network and elsewhere, they are always hyper on de-veining shrimp. I suppose it's for appearances sake. Right down the back of a shrimp is a minuscule black...
View ArticleBack from the Dead
I'm back on a compiuter at last!! i'm here at the library at New Augusta Mississippi, and so happy to be here--to be alive and much better, after two and a half years. Months of psychological warfare...
View ArticleTh Car Adventure
So, after a long horrible freezing rainy winter,alone for the most part, I decided this must change! So I phoned a salesman at the Toyota dealership in Hattiesburg that I had done business with...
View ArticleNews from Mississippi
iIt's been a looong time since I've been on Greasy and God knows I've mised it so much! Due to no funding from bhe county Board of Supervisors and lacklluster interest from the State, all the...
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