Living with Loulou
A French kitty comments on just about everything.
Monday Mantra
An old photo but it was my Who Cares photo so I’m using it again. Mama wanted to share these two or three sparks for Monday that the kids and she came up with during our 8-day reunion. Mama started them off with one you know: Just here, just now, just this. Which they loved because NO ONE WANTED TO RUIN OUR GATHERING talking about the dolt who shall not be named. Got us...
read moreSunday Self-Governing!!!
Watering is not as easy as it appears….. 
Mama urges anyone interested in how our democrocy began to watch this fascinating short film by Heather Cox Richardson that is done so well and informs us of our possibly forgotten the resitance to a dictator king that marked the beginning of freedom and justic for all. It is not long and mama and papa were taken with the down-to-earth reporting of how we, as...
Saturday Sanity
We are being political today because our government is trying to remove 4% of our population because they are immigrants. What the hell does he think HE and his family are? Abrego Garcia has finally been returned fron the San Salvador prison to which he was illegally sent by the Trump administration. “In a statement, the union called for “an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart …
Friday Fills
MAMA–when are we PLANTING??? It’s getting late in the season. 1. My plans for June include __helping mama plant three new rosies and __uh,..watering them_. She lost three this year to maladies. Mama took over with these: 2. I would love to have __ several people I have never MET mentor me. 3. Most people who are pushy or aggressive or control freaks are often simply scared stiff__ was an aha moment for me. 4....
read moreRolicking Reunion – Thanks to All
Well, mama and papa were tickled to find that a large ever-changing group of 15 family members and their various partners can really live it up all together for 8 days without any glitches at all and many friendships enhanced and affecting. Sweet moments…. One of the highlights of their adventure was the incredibly beautiful guitar music from their grand nephew, who plays professionally as you might have heard in a recent blog. Music...
read moreWistful Wednesday
Topsy turvy, getting back home and in the groove again… The mortar-less walls of Cosa, a Roman ruin near Ansedonia. Well, lots to tell! A brilliant sun, lovely sea and several really good cooks were only part of mama’s family reunion near Ansedonia, Italy and there were ruins nearby from a Roman colony that used Etruscan slave labor to construct 20-foot walls of stone with NO mortar! Mama’s moving pretty fast today and besides,...
read moreRemember
“This nation will remain the land of the free only as long as it is home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis And there are many brave men and women gathering their forces to keep our nation free and democratic. It will be a huge endeavor and we laud those who are soldiering up to combat oligarchs and tyranny. “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of...
read moreSunday Saga
Up close and personal today! Well, this will be short as mama and papa are taking off for a little town 2 hours from here to spend the next week (!) with 3 vegans, 6 vegetarians, and 4 or 5 carnivores and who knows WHAT will come out of the kitchen in the house rented for this get-together!!! Will report as usual from my vantage point as I wander the new garden premises and the...
read moreSaturday Signals
Prayers and hugs and a visit to Stippie’s granny. Stippie flew away yesterday and his granny is devastated… Today I’m helping with the mulch…such fun! These signals are important and we simply have to publish them. May the rest of your weekend be full of smiles amd kindness and sweet animal friends and maybe you’ll need a few extra olives in your martini after having seen the Big Beauitful Bummer. Love always from...
Frets On Friday
Okay mama is better at these than I. I’m doing some sun bathing… 1. A day without __fear, innocent humans being harmed, and democracy’s destruction__is like a __world__without __TRUMP!!! 2. I find it rude when someone asks me __so how old are you anyway. Haha, it’s not so bad, just my own little secret, haha. 3. I like to __HAVE COFFEE_ as early as possible. 4. I tend to run late when __rushing to...
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