I am not into politics but are we suggesting that Palin would solve all the problems which Obama has been working on for 10 months! Can’t we give him a break and time?

He still has 3 years to work on what took at least 2 terms from the other camp to mess up.

My mother was very conservative, I am anything but.

We worked in the yard the other day and I was trying to find "junkie" duds  if I tore them in the rose bushes it would be fine to throw away.

I had on leotards and jean shorts over them and scrubs like a nurse.

Daughter looked at me and said : Mom , you look like Britney Spears……whatever…style is in your attitude.

Did you know the Queen has 8 Corgies?

You mean she needs house keys?

I just can’t remember what I was going to say….

Don’t worry about it I forgot what I was going to answer

I’m invited at Mrs. Bucket’s house.

Oh, you poor dear! Remember it is Mrs.Bouquet

I was 19 living still in Belgium ,just married and we bought a Grundig radio/record player.

The new innovation was that you could put 12 records on and they would fall down one by one like magic.

Problem was we could only afford 2 records after that purchase.

One was Franky Lane (do I remember that right?) and an obsession I had with Ima Sumac, Her range was enormous and it did not please the people next door.

I remember the milkman, but in pre war Europe we added some others, the gypsies would come and repair the aluminum pots by putting a washer in them. I know my mother had a pot that was worn and she kept waiting for them to come and fix it. We had a rag man , he would pick up your rags or clothing no longer able to be salvaged. He had a bag over his shoulder, he would weigh the clothes with one the of the long hand scales now considered "antique".

 We lived in a small village and we also had the butcher deliver every morning if you needed him and the baker too. That stopped during the war when we had rations.

Our coal was delivered in push cart by an old man getting more and more bent over.

Worse yet was not in delivery but in pick up. When one died you did stay in the house until the funeral wagon came to get you and bring you to the cemetery.

We did not have an ice wagon perhaps in the big city but we Had every thing done fresh every day or was pickled in large vessels (such as eggs , herring and butter with a layer of salt on top).

My first refrigerator came when I lived in Montreal for 2 years waiting for my USA visa. I did not know what to put in or out of it. I decided to just pack it with everything included canned goods until I knew better,

Who knows how far we will go with this technology? I never thought I would buy a computer let alone sit almost on top of it for hours every day.

Right now it brings me closer to my family, what they don’t email I find in Facebook.

12 years ago I started with a Web TV never believing that this would bring me more knowledge, more friends, more  recipes for life and cooking. What will be for me in the next 12 years-if I live that long- is something I look forward to.