Something for Sunday

Greetings from my hometown! 

I hope you enjoy these Christmas photos from Union Station.

Friday Funnies

This sounds like a conversation between Connie and me:

It's Thanksgiving!

I hope you have fun plans with family and friends!

I am thankful for all of you--faithful blog readers!

What I Buy Wednesday

Or, what I didn't buy. 

I don't even know what this is. 

I have no idea what to do with it, so I didn't buy it. It looks like I probably wouldn't like the texture. Strange.

So, I looked it up.

Rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to Southeast Asia. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits, including the lychee, longan, pulasan, and quenepa.

Oh yeah, now I know what it is! 

Tuesday Thoughts About...

...printing photos. 

I have a love/hate relationship with my printer. 

You've heard my complaints before. But now I have a new one. First, here's a reminder of my previous problems. 

It seems to happen fairly often that Butch prints exactly when I’m trying to print photos, thus ruining a lot of photo paper—which isn’t cheap. 

And then there have been the times when I’ve forgotten to take out the extra photo paper and it gets printed on (remember when Butch was going to Guatemala and had to take his boarding pass printed on glossy photo paper? I forgot to ask him how that went! Anyway, that's more wasted paper). 

Then there are the times that I’ve forgotten that I have the printer set on “double-sided” which means that it’s unusable —a sloppy inky mess. This has happened too many times. I think I finally have it in my head to check that.

And then today (I’m writing this on Saturday), I ran out of yellow ink—mid-printing. Little did I know that when I opened the lid to install a new ink cartridge, that meant that the “job” would start all over again and re-print—all 8 pages--when there was only one left to go!! Another waste!

Sheesh!

I know what you are thinking: "All of this sounds like user errors!" Yeah, I know. But it does make me hate my printer. And sometimes Butch!

Monday Mystery

It’s a mystery to me that Uber/Lyft drivers act like it’s a surprise when they pick people up or drop them off at the airport, that they have luggage! Seriously? Doesn't everybody have a suitcase at the airport? 

Here’s the story:

When we recently went to Charleston for our mother/daughter trip, I ordered an XL car for six. Yes, the XL is supposed to stand for extra large. Again, it stands to reason that these six people would have suitcases. The guy arrived and there was no way it was going to work. The sixth person had to sit in the way back which meant there wouldn’t be room for the luggage. The driver kept acting like it would work when clearly it would not, We all had purses and a carry-on too. There was no way we could juggle luggage AND carry-ons on our laps. We ordered another car and had to wait. Considering that some of us had already waited for our luggage only to find that it came on two carousels--we were anxious to get going! So aggravating. 

The same thing happened when we ordered a car to take us back to the airport. This one ended up working--but it was tight. I had to have my carry-on jammed in the front seat with me while everyone else had theirs on their lap. That driver was hearing impaired so we couldn’t even call him in advance to find out if it was going to work. You don’t find that out about the driver until you’ve ordered the car. So aggravating!

Listen up drivers—DO NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN PICKING UP PEOPLE GOING TO OR COMING FROM THE AIRPORT THAT THEY HAVE LUGGAGE! It’s guaranteed they will and that ain’t no mystery!!

Something for Sunday

Well, it's that time of year. Christmas is right around the corner. With Thanksgiving in front of us, I knew I didn't want to face the decorating when I got home. Sooo, this weekend was it--that time to get a move on.

I used to love Christmas decorating. Now, not so much. It's a chore. And, as I'm putting up, I'm already dreading the "take down." It's just a lot of work. A. Lot!

Anyway, here's a little something to get you in the mood:

Honestly, what makes the mantle is the festive scarf--I guess that's what you call it-mantle scarf? I've had this for about 20 years--probably more. It's heavy and hard to get in place. It takes two people to get it up. It's one of my favorite things because this alone looks like Christmas.

Basically, the only thing I removed was a large floral arrangement that sits where Santa is. Other than that, I leave all of my regular "junk" and just add some Christmas things. The ornament on the right on top of the scale and books is Downton Abbey and lives there all the time--not just at Christmas. The mantle is different every year. I just pile a bunch of stuff on and call it good.

We used to have our flocked artificial tree in the living room. We've had two trees as far back as I can remember--since we moved to Nashville in 1985. I love a live tree so we always had that in the family room. But, then, Covid happened. We did away with the real tree and moved the artificial to the family room. I love it! Photos coming soon. (Basically, my ladies haven't hauled it down yet! When we get back after Thanksgiving, the wreaths out front and the garland on the staircase will be up! I wouldn't have any of it if we didn't have their help. It's just too much!).

We'll be cooking today for Thanksgiving and then off to Morgan's in Illinois on Tuesday morning. We're going to St. Louis on Friday for the weekend. I'm looking forward to all of it! And then back home to my almost completed Christmas house!

Have a good week y'all!