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Gosh, it's been a terrible day for news. Tony Dow is an actor that played on a TV show called 'Leave It To Beaver'  from 1957-1963.  Technically it was before my TV awareness time but it still runs in reruns today.  Dow plays Beaver's older brother Wally.  On the show he went probably from about 10 to about 16.  He was a good looking guy, nice & smart.  He had some bonehead best friends--Eddie Haskell, a legend on his own & Lumpy Rutherford.   As a teen, I had a huge crush on Wally. Fast forward to now.  He's had cancer a couple of times & announced in May 2022 that it had returned with a vengence.  This morning, it was announced in the media that he had died.  His management team announced.  TMZ, the Networks, lowlife CNN ran with it. Now we're told he is in his "last hours" per his son.  His stepmom was "distraught" and told the management team.  Interesting.  What a mess. Anyway we look at the situ...

Today was weekly grocery add day.  We get them every Tuesday & I give them a glance before I toss them. I don't give them much notice to be honest. When I decide the dreadful day has arrived...grocery store day...I look at the store website & may put something on the list that has a coupon.  I always wish I had the ability to look for store coupons although they are really old school.  I worked at Walgreens for a couple of months & a woman came in with a huge file & really worked the coupon game to the hilt.  I was waiting for the day when Walgreens owed her money! So my friend D loves the 1940s.  She's fascinated with her pilot dad & her mom, who was married to first husband for 2 weeks before he was killed in the war.   She met dad at a local airbase.  But my friend is obsessed with all things WWII. I have to admit that I loved that era...heroes coming home, the women's fashions, the strength to rebuild our country after a to...

  The title may be pushing it a little but I don't like people watching what I do.  Not openly & not in secret.  And I'm not paranoid about the Chinese government watching my life, mainly because everyone has better things to do than looking at my life.  It's people I know.   I gave up Facebook a few months ago & have absolutely no regrets & one of the main things that are an advantage is that people know way less about my life.  I was never a big sharer but if I did share something I'm ok with someone asking questions if my post wasn't clear.  What bugged me is, for example, is if I followed a business (my cousin's business) that a person calls to ask why I'm following a brewery.  Or the same person attacking me if I passed on a joke that I thought was funny but she didn't think it was funny.  Everything I do is not everyone's business.  And yes, it was on Facebook but it was also info that was no big deal for someone t...

Feud is a TV mini-series about the relationship between movie stars Joan Crawford & Bette Davis. The show is set in the early 1960s when both actresses were in the September of their lives.  Both were big stars in the 1940s & 1950s but by this time their stars were fading.  There were few movies being made calling for stars their age.  Davis had 2 Academy Awards & had been nominated for 8 others. Crawford had 1 Award plus 2 other nominations.   While both were desparately looking for roles, along came 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'.  The movie was about a former child star (Davis) who lives with & torments her paraplegic sister (Crawford).  They are assigned the most patient director of all time who has to deal with dueling divas clearly trying to one up each other.  Clearly these women are not friends & they do whatever they can that they think makes them look better & the other look like the problem.  Crawford is c...

  I'm envious sometimes.  But not jealous. I grew up in a wonderful home.  We never had a lot but we always had enough. And we learned early that we did not get everything that caught our eye.  And if I really wanted something I would usually get it for Christmas.  Rocking chair, guitar, mixer...it was good.  And it's served me well over the years...I inheirited from both parents the truth that the person with the most stuff really doesn't really win.  I'm not a stuff person. But I do envy sometimes.   I wish I weighed 20 pounds less. My friend L looks cute in her jewelry  but I can't stand jewelry touching my skin. But I envy her pretty necklaces. I wish I could wear one. I wish I could love going to Texas Tech sports still.  Football games take too long.  Basketball games are too loud.  I can't afford more than a couple of baseball games a year.  I miss it. I wish I could bake pretty things.  My cookies taste g...

  I used to work with a woman who told lies.  About everything  She would tell you the red cup on your desk was blue.  And she'd lie to you when it would be in her best interest to tell the truth.   But I have another friend who lies in a different way.  She starts off telling the truth I think but then ventures into complete absurdity.   So who annoys me more?  The flat out liar about everything or the person who enhances every story with bullshit?  It's a conundrum.  

  I'm excited!! In May I planted 2 pepper plants & 4 tomato plants.  One of the tomato plants has already bit the dust.  My yard guy P planted them but he'd broken one.  It lasted longer than I thought it would.  I have no tomatoes...lots of blooms...but no fruit.  And these are my first peppers.  When they grow up they are supposed to be red bell peppers.    !!!!!!! It has been so flipping hot I hope they can all survive.  We have a mention of rain tomorrow about 2pm but it'll be gone before morning.  It's a tough summer.  But I water the plants every day so fingers crossed!!

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  Growing up,  my mom would play a lot of 4 part harmony gospel music & I loved it!  I grew up with the Gaithers, The Stamps Quartet, & The Blackwood Brothers, among others.  They'd go from town to town, performing at small churches.  And many times, the small towns did not have hotels so they'd stay with different church families.  We had a few over the years ...they were happy for a guest room & a good meal or 2.  The groups played for a small stipend & then got to sell their music after the show.  They even sold song books!  We had a few because my mom played the piano at church.  And the cool part was that my mom could not read music.  She'd learned to play by reading "shape notes" & the books had shape notes.  Interestingly, mom learned as a child when a salesman came by with a music program & her mom bought it for her.  Mom wasn't a Chopin but she loved playing her piano & that came throug...

1.  Guy hits 2 sets of stop sticks & has 6 police cars chasing him with lights & sirens & when he was asked why he didn't stop: "I didn't know you were talking to me."  

  Gosh, I know it's hard to believe that I have food issues.  I've been overweight all of my life.  I have horrible eating habits. I used to like to cook but now I go for the easy stuff.  I'm more likely to have cereal for supper than cook something. I eat too much junk food.  But, I have weighed 70 pounds more & have maintained my current weight for about 12 years.  I'd like to lose 20 more pounds but that's probably not happening & I'm actually ok with that.  But I was reading an article last week about food hoarding.  And that definitely applies to me.  I inheirited that from my mom.  But she grew up in the depression.  She went through hungry times.  When times were better, she always had a lot of food on hand. Plus, we lived in the country & there wasn't a grocery store on every corner.  And she liked variety.  On her table would be 10 different bowls of something but not much of anything.  There...

♭Bad boys, bad boys....whatcha gonna do when they come for you??♯ Cops is a TV show that started back in the 1980s, disappeared for awhile & came back.  IMDB says it was still going in 2021 but that surprises me because of all the cop hate & the snowflakes complaining about their rights to have drugs, assault people & burn down buildings were being violated.  Crime is barely crime anymore.    So there is an entire Cops channel on Pluto TV.  I've been watching tonight & one of the shows was with Lubbock police officers.  I used to dispatch, starting 37 years ago & I lasted 4 years.  I don't know any officers anymore because they've all retired & are old like me.  But on this show, I knew 2 of them.  I knew both as rookies. One I knew pretty well.  RH was the unluckiest officer I've ever met.  He broke his arm in the police academy & had to work on the police desk with us til he healed so we all became frie...

I'm an admitted judge show junkie & Pluto TV now has an entire 'Judge Judy' channel & some of the cases are 25 years old--an era of no cell phones, pagers, phone cards.  How far we've come!   Now everyone is suing over cell phone plans.  But that's not really the point here. I wish they'd have where-are-they-now blurbs. I'd like to see some of these idiots 25 years later. Way too many cases are thirsty women giving a man "thousands of dollars" because he promised he'd take care of them forever. I realize my perspective is tempered by being an almost 65 year old never married woman but women need to learn that no one takes care of them but themselves.  And I believe a woman should always have a separate bank account & money set back so they are never in a position where they can't afford to leave. Then they go on court tv trying to get money back & then for moving expenses.  Idiots.   I'm hoping to update the idiots when ...

  Several months ago I heard Megyn Kelly interviewing a poet named.  I missed most of the interview but Megyn said he was a great photographer & a good Twitter follow. Apparently lots of people took her advice.   I think I remember him tweeting that his follow count had soared after the interview.  I followed him. He does tweet a lot of nice pictures.  His tweets are pretty calm.  He tweets poems often & talks about a solo  & a spiritual life  He doesn't like people or going out.  And he talks about being "cancelled" by "woke" people a couple of years ago.  He portrays himself as the victim of 2019. I Googled him & what a story I found!  The account talks about his alcoholism, that he had an affair with a married woman & after they broke up he sent an anonymous messaage to her husband telling hubs that his wife was having an affair.  He finally admitted to hubs he was the other person in the affair....

  I keep reading stories about Amazon Prime Day next week.  They take 2 days & give deep discounts on all kinds of things.  But of course, like Black Friday sales, they release the secret bargains early so people can salivate I guess. And, of course, they sell some stuff early. But there is nothing I need.  I read all the lists.  I sometimes look at stores.  I browse online.  Not one thing I need.  Except a 1/2 gallon of milk right now.  What I need, not retail, is sofit & fascia boards replaced & painted.  I need siding replaced & painted.  I may need fence repair because my neighbor's is falling down  & while my fence is strong I'm afraid their fence will pull my down.  I need a new back gate. As usual, I'm not normal.