Ninasusan

Once upon a time Marvin and Helen, Wendell and Neva and John and Lennise chose to move into Valley High Manor…a housing area near east city limits of Des Moines.  This is where the 3 couples chose to raise their families which included Nina Sue, Susan Jean and Lennie Rae.  As life happened, those who… Read more

Everyday at lunch I eat 2 boiled eggs mixed with a drained can of tuna, mixed with yellow mustard, tossed with some sweet pickle relish and a squirt of mayo.  Every day Baxter jumps up on the counter as soon as he hears the can opener drawer open.  I started leaving a small bite of… Read more

Everybody I know has a different music list of favorites…including him…although I must say he seems to be pretty all inclusive judging from the tunes coming from his workshop in the morning.  Throw in a little classical, country, pop, rock and roll and even a good ole Christian harmony and he is good with it.… Read more

When I attended college in Joplin, MO back in the 70’s, I recall one snow storm that surprised me due to Joplin being in southern Missouri.  Everything shut down.  It was an impressive amount of snow but nothing like we had in Iowa.   For 30 years, we lived in the country in Central Iowa.… Read more

I was going to put Franny out tonight and follow him to bed and read…at least I would BE in bed ..sleeping was not part of the plan….but…I thought I would check FB while Franny was doing her business (which really means wrapping her chain around a tree and bark) and I found a post… Read more

Even though I allowed someone to mess with his private parts at midnight last night….I’m referring to Baxter not HIM, look who is following me around today. January 2nd 2001, my dad passed…it’s always a bitter sweet day for me.  Very sad because I lost my dad but relieved because he was ready to go….and… Read more

Being retired is very comfortable for me.  My retirement Anniversary is coming up next month…3 years.  I find that I’ve become quite lazy.  I do what I want to do and that is it.  Because of my personality, I worry that I’m wasting every day…but then the voices in my head say….if you are at… Read more

Because my Christmas shopping is done! To be completely transparent in my gloating it seems every year my Christmas list for recipients gets shorter and shorter due to death and distance. I read an article a long time ago in a magazine explaining that how we show love is how we feel love.  There are… Read more

I remember when my dad died, I would go downstairs to his little sculpting area and sit and look at things realizing that he put them in the spot they now layed and they had not been disturbed by others.  We remodeled the house and moved in after my mom died 8 years later and… Read more

Not in any particular  order…..  Lady Gaga at the Oscars.  I’m a Sound of Music girl But I’m not a heavy metal girl although I like Disturbed because of David Draiman’s voice.  Sounds of Silence Blows me away. I admit a girl crush on the Wilson girls in Heart.  The night they sang a salute to Led Zepplen… Read more