Welcome! I’m Susan in the Boonies, and I’m delighted to welcome you today to my Wild Life in the Woods! My husband snapped this shot of me on a date night.He calls it “I Heart Sooze”. I think it’s pretty clear I heart him back. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be putting out my …
February 14 may have been Valentine’s day to YOU, but to those of us in the Boonies, it is also known as Deakie Boy’s Birthday. Deacon D. Dawg turned TWELVE this year. That’s twelve in human years. But that’s eight thousand and seventy-two in doggie years. Or 84. It’s one of those. And we’re proud …
Can you smell the green stuff from here? I still can. Give my used-to-be white, yet now, strangely splotchily mint-green, turkeypoop covered dog a bath. The aroma? My dear, you have NO idea. Be stuck as an adult suffering from a lack of voice that has been stolen by a wickedly evil cough, seated in …
Ladies and Gentlemen: We have a WINNAH!!! A winner of the $25.00 gift card for the Centrum and Nutrition Possible giveaway. Chosen by the Random Number Generator: The winner of the Am Ex Gift Card for $25,00 is the person who left Comment #28. Congratulations, Christine!!! I contacted Christine this morning, and hopefully, she’ll be …
Greetings, fellow sojourners! I call you fellow sojourners, because, while each person who reads this is distinctly different, each of us is on our own little journey through space and time. It’s been over a month now since the New Year arrived, with such a sense of promise. It’s been a month now since many …
Do you use Pinterest? It’s fun, and can be quite addictive, I’m told. I’m NOT addicted to it, and due to the story I’m about to tell you, I may not ever be addicted. Because PAIN is an effective deterrent for most of us in the prevention of addictions. And people, let me tell you: …
Today is Susan in the Boonies’ birthday, so she’s taking a vacation day from her Wild Life In The Woods. I’m Lindsey, (aka the Big Bison) the Guest Birthday Poster, and I’ll attempt to hold your attention until Susan returns to her Wild Life In The Woods. Every year around our house, Susan’s birthday, January …
Remember The Partridge Family? Remember little Danny Partridge?Image from here. The title to this post was supposed to have been: “Top Ten Life Stories That I Will Never Live Down”. (You see, I’m writing this as a response to a writing prompt given to me by MamaKat, over on Mama’s Losin’ It.) But, really, why …
The other day, my daughter was watching the old ’60’s sitcom, Green Acres, on Hulu. I was hearing bits of dialog coming from the computer where she was watching it in the other room. And may I just say, that Oliver Douglas was very often a fairly grumpy man on that show. Probably had nothing …
Who’ve traveled in and out … and in and out… and in and out…. my door. In backwards order, here are the top 5 dogs of my life: 5. Pilgrim Pee Dog – the neurotic German Shepherd 4. Deacon D. Dawg – old Iron Tum, the Yellow Labrador 3. Memphis – the mutt who looked …
Remember that old saw? There ARE no small parts….Only SMALL ACTORS!!! My kids were in Lifesong Theatre Group’s smashingly spectacular production of Beauty and the Beast. Unfortunately for their Mama, they had teeny weeny parts. And you know how we Moms always feel our kids ought to be front and center on stage! But, my …
Bless her heart: she was really a Mom, and glad about it, too. Mama Kat asked me to write a post telling how I knew I was really a Mom. I thought of several incidents – isolated stories that I could tell, where I knew, for sure, that I was really and truly somebody’s mom, but …
A few years ago, my husband’s dear aunt was downsizing, and she decided to give some of her treasures to us, since we had more room in our home than she would have in the apartment into which she was moving. So she gave us her lovely little porcelain Christmas village. Near that time, my …
What you cannot see in this picture is my couch. Is it clean? Or is it cruddy? I do not love to clean. However, I also cannot tolerate true squalor. 😀 And I’m not financially in a position to do my bit to help our nation’s economic recovery effort by hiring someone ELSE to do …
Do you see what I see? Said the night wind to the little lamb: “Do you see what I see? Way up in the sky, little lamb.” Well, how about it? Do you see what I see? I’ll bet you don’t. You probably see a lovely tree, covered in twinkling lights, surrounded by presents, with …