Back in July, we were coming back from the wedding of our nephew and new niece. We made a detour on our way home. From the Chattanooga area, instead of getting on I-59 South, we stayed on I-24. We stopped in South Pittsburg, TN at the Lodge Cast Iron Museum and store. They are open…
My hearing story
I feel like there is a stigma around females with hearing loss. I’ve dealt with it for the past 15 years or so. There are women in my family history that had hearing loss and just lived with it. I tried that too for awhile. My Dad had profound hearing loss too. I don’t know…
Chasing Fall!! Part 2
On rainy Wednesday we packed up and headed north about an hour and a half to Stowe, Vermont. But driving I had no sense of direction, it felt like we were going East not North. We were able to see more colors by going North. There were some red in the mix. We arrived in…
Chasing Fall!! Part 1
Do you have a dream destination that you have always wanted to visit??? Our advice GOOOOOO!! Make the plans and just do it!!! If you’ve been following our blog, or if you are new here, you can tell that we love to eat and to travel. One of our bucket destinations was to visit Vermont….
Memories – Christmas 2022 Recipes
I made a few new desserts that I promised in the last blog that I would share the recipes for. I found them all on Pinterest. First I’ll share the Five Ingredient Hot Cocoa Mix that I found at https://www.sixcleversisters.com/the-best-homemade-hot-cocoa-mix/ 3 1/3 cups of Dry Milk ( if using pouches, use 3) 1 1/2 –…
My Birthday & Wedding Weekend
This year for my birthday we chose a new restaurant that we had not been to before, we went to Vino in English Village in Mountain Brook. Jeff made reservations and we met there after work, yes I had to work on my birthday. Traffic was awful going into Mountain Brook that night, there was…
Memories – Cheese Please!
Update: We stopped in on our trip in August 2025. I grabbed some updated pictures, so as promised I am updating this post. First off, we should have stopped on our recent trip for updated pictures. LOL! I know we’ve been there since these pictures were taken, but this is what I found on my…
Watermelon Festival
We stopped by the Watermelon Festival on July 19 at the Howard Family Holiday Farm in Moody, AL. There were several vendors set up. They had activities planned for the day and were having an ice cream eating contest at 2:00 but we just had a few minutes in our day to stop in. I’ve…
Burning Tree Smokehouse
We recently went from Irondale through Avondale into downtown Birmingham. Along the way we passed the Burning Tree Smokehouse on 3rd Avenue South near Pepper Place. We added it to our list of places to try. We had a rare weekend home, seems that lately our weekends are for traveling. We decided to have lunch…
We are Grandparents again!
You know that saying “ask me about my grandkids”, well if you’ve talked to us or follow us on social media then you already know that we love our grandbabies. We are Grandparents to 2 beautiful grandchildren. Our baby girl, Jane Elizabeth Jones was born on November 17, 2024 and weighed 6lbs 8oz and was…