Driving Miss Stormy. That's what we did this weekend. Stormy, who last week was lounging on a yacht in the Caribbean, flew to Indiana for thirty hours so that she could surprise her former boss at his 50th birthday party in Fort Wayne. I picked her up about noon on Saturday. Lindsey met me and the three of us had lunch at Qdoba. We drove her back down to Indy on Sunday. We dropped Bob off at Brent and Lindsey's, did a little Keystone shopping, and then deposited Stormy back at the airport. Here she is with Bob and a storage bag of fresh Melt in Your Mouth Yeast Rolls to take back to Wilkes Barre.

This weekend also gave us the opportunity to spend some time with granddog number 2, Bonnie the Barbarian. She's so funny and wild. A regular little "terrierist."


During the weekend, our conversation kept turning to the country's economic woes and how we are all coping with the struggling economy. Stormy is tired of saying "Tough Economic Times," so we decided to use the acronym TET instead - (having nothing to do with the 1968 Vietnam War TET Offensive, of course). Feel free to incorporate our acronym into your daily lives. You have our permission. In the future, this blog will feature some TET recipes and TIPS for TET.




The Book Babes met last Wednesday to discuss The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. 661 pages. We liked the book. It was very entertaining and somewhat spicy. You have to keep in mind, when reading, that it is historical fiction. We did all decide, though, that being part of the king's court must have been stressful, and that you would fare better if you never caught the king's eye. A girl could lose her head!




From the Archives: This seems appropriate. Here I am on the stairs of the Beauchamp Tower at the Tower of London in 2005. Hey, it's a scary place, and London's humidity is hard on the hair.

Maddie, the Amazing Barking Dog went to the groomer last week. There was an added charge this time, of eight dollars for "tangles." Eight more dollars - bringing the total cost to $58.00, which because of TET, makes me think, maybe we should just do this ourselves at home. Maddie hates going to the groomer. It upsets her, sometimes to the point of extreme diarrhea. Anyway, Cartoon Maddie is not afraid of TET. In fact, she says, bring them on.

"I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They would probably break down into their various gases before they even hit." Jack Handey