Have you driven on the new Southern Beltway yet?I finally did and it was like unwrapping a present on Christmas morning: The long wait, the high amount of anticipation and lots of excitement while wondering what exactly was beneath the wrapping or – in this case – beyond the “road ...
Well, it’s finally here: A new year, the start of a new month and finally some chillier weather that feels more like winter.We made it through 2021.How are you doing?I know we all thought after 2020 that we could endure anything, but then 2021 brought us such nasty surprises as the Delta and ...
The sun is shining, the grass is green and – much to everyone’s dismay – there’s zero chance of us having a white Christmas this year. The temperature has been cold enough for local ski resorts to fire up the snowmakers, but I’m hoping for some of the natural stuff to appear on the ...
Have you finished decorating for the Christmas holiday yet?I put up my outside lights the day before Thanksgiving when the weather was still fairly mild but still couldn’t bring myself to turn on the lights or put up my tree until after turkey day. Now you have to realize that my decorating ...
It’s Thanksgiving week, so to me it’s now officially the holiday season.My Thanksgiving door decoration will stay in place until Friday although my neighbor a few doors up already has his Christmas lights on and the tree shining through the picture window each evening. I’ll definitely ...
Some of you might be old enough to remember when United Airlines launched its “Fly the Friendly Skies” campaign back in 1965. They later moved away from it, and I just read they relaunched it two years ago – right before the COVID-19 pandemic grounded flights for months and put the kibosh ...
