Yearly Archives: 2025

………………………I saws this ad from……COZYCITY……for these hand knit chunky “JACQUARD” sweaters. I own nothing like them and thought they would be fun for the up coming winter…..The photos with the gentlemen are what I ordered….Fun…no?……..Well a Chinese man came down my driveway and dropped the package at my front door. When I opened it to my horrific surprise were two VERY CHEAP, POLYESTER FLAT KNIT SWEAT SHIRTS…….The designs were BADLY PRINTED….not chunky hand knits as advertised!…….This company is a total SCAM and a total RIP OFF……..DO NOT, I repeat….DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS COMPANY…….no matter how appealing the photos of the men in the sweaters may look, and there are many styles to choose from…..what you order is NOT what you will get. If you try to return them you have to pay to ship to CHINA!!!!! and it cost a lot more than what these horrible garments did……Order NOTHING from this company!….YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

………………..I would like to wish all of my friends of the Jewish faith a very…..Happy Rosh Hashanah!………Happy New Year!!

…………………Here in the state of Connecticut, each year we have to pay a tax for each individual car we own…..The cost of the tax depends on the age and model of the car!……I owned THREE cars……One was Jac’s Lexus SUV, which was over 10 years old……..I had a GMC Yukon Denali truck which I used for work and was now just too big, and I also have a two door 2002 convertible, which is now considered an ANTIQUE…….I had gotten the truck when I was going back and forth to QVC to hold lots of garment bags in the trunk….Now that I no longer make that trip, and the truck was just so big, I hardly drove it….and I didn’t need three cars!….so I traded in the truck and Jac’s car, and bought myself a new Lexus….of course in WHITE……Jac and I had a joke…..we would say….”We have one white house, three white cars, three black dogs, and two dumb clucks!”……well….things have changed a lot…..I still have one white house, but now two white cars. I will never get rid of my little convertible!….which I only use in the summer to tool about…….The three black dogs and my sweet “dumb cluck” are now waiting for me in a better place.

…………………….It was such a beautiful day yesterday that I decided to take a walk….training for my European trip where I know I’ll be doing a lot of walking!……As I was walking I started to notice all of these interesting trees and bushes….some were beautiful….some were strange and some even funny looking…..so I decided to snap some pictures……every single one caught my eye…….The bush [second photo from top left], reminded me of a huge gum drop, and the pine tree next to it reminded me of Northern California…..I specially loved the row of gnarly tree trunks, and the hundreds of pine cones at the top of the trees…..I would spray paint some of them gold, and mix the gold ones with the natural ones, and make a pine cone wreath……..I’ll just have to take more walks and snap more pics….It makes the walks much more interesting!

…………………..I have mentioned my good friends ROBYN & ARMANDO so many times that I thought it was time to put a face to the name….Armando passed away….too soon…..many years ago…In a world of billions of people….they were able to find each other…..a rare and wonderful thing………When I look at this picture….all I can think of is……PURE JOY!