Hurry up November! I want a piece of this pie.   I can’t wait for my daughter’s wedding this weekend; the last of my three kids to get married and the only daughter. I have dreamed of this day for years maybe even since the day she first made her appearance on this earth. I [...]

Great plain or covered with berries and cream.   Beautiful, isn’t it.   My grandmother on my mother’s side was never a “grandma” but a “mama”. I’m a “gran” to my two grandsons and I better not ever catch them calling me granny or any of those other old sounding names. I’m not old yet. [...]

My perfect lemon meringue pie. Finally!!!   I always wanted to put a pie in an open window overlooking a beautiful meadow so the aroma of it would waif across the open fields to someone who had a sweet tooth and ready for dessert. Oh, well, it is a window even though it doesn’t open [...]

So you wanna be a cowboy! Recently my husband and I were at the movie watching Cowboys and Aliens and he turned to me and said “I wanna be a cowboy”. My first thought was “Am I going to be his cowgirl”. Now according to the lyrics of that song I will be riding on [...]

Are you screamin’ for ice cream this summer? I don’t know what your first memories of ice cream are but mine are of a Walkaway Sunday at Figgins ice cream shop in my hometown. The little neighborhood shop is long gone but what I remember is my grandmother taking my sister and I there. We [...]