Marsha Ingrao

Relaxing – Organizing and Cleaning the Junk Room

Everyone has a little clutter. Today is cleaning day. Working […]

Manny and Marsha at the Botanical Gardens in Kauai, HI

The air dripped that day, but not with rain. The […]

Challenge Me: Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

I had curves growing up, my knees and my elbows! Most everything else about me is straight. EXCEPT that I have astigmatisms in both eyes, and I can’t draw straight […]

Hobbies

Travel Theme: Costumes

Am I too late to post a quick post about costumes? Alisa’s travel theme for last week fits a good many pictures I have. In my collection I have pictures of […]

Hobbies

Monk Seal at Poipu Beach

We spent only a week in Kauai, HI, but I have way more than a week’s worth of posts – even though they are not written yet. I’ll post this […]

Hobbies

Manny Goes to Grove Cafe in Kauai, HI

We, V, C, M and I, just got back from a wonderful vacation in Kauai, HI. Manny’s favorite place in all of Kauai was a famous restaurant in the little […]

Personal Stories

Investing Before and During Retirement

Today I thought I would write about investing for retirement. I didn’t invest by doing anything difficult or brilliant, but I am pleased with my outcome at this point. When […]

Photo Challenges

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it […]

Personal Stories

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my […]

Photo Challenges

Where to Find Color for a Photo Challenge Like an Expert

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color Woodlake Botanical Gardens At the Kiwanis […]

Hobbies

A Glimpse of Woodlake Meandering Through Time

My friend Sally Pace commissioned me to write about the history of Woodlake for the Kiwanis Magazine, maybe 300 words or less. Woodlake, a sleepy town born in 1910 in […]

Travel

Happy Cows of California? That’s a Bunch of Bulls

I took my friend Jean home after our walk, and […]

Blogging

Manny’s Almost Spring Bath

V thinks Manny should have his own site. I don’t know. I tried to get him his own email, but Google didn’t want to give it to him for two […]

Non-profit

Kiwanians at the Farm Show

World Ag Expo comes to Tulare in February. Travelers fill up hotels (and homes) from all over the world. This was my experience two years ago. Sally Pace gave me […]

Personal Stories

A Truly Retired Day

V is home, so my alone-time retired day is over, but I thought I’d share what it was like to be truly retired today. While I waited for the guy […]

Travel

Shopping anyone? by Carol Sherritt

My husband and I visited Oman in January when the weather is mild and sunny. On our first day our hosts were keen to show us the best of Muscat and […]

Travel

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire

As I pushed the publish button the notice came up that this is my 300th post! Thanks everyone for sticking with me for that long!!!! 🙂 This challenge is […]

Non-profit

John Muir Visits the Tulare County Historical Society During the 2013 Annual Meeting

Yesterday at the Tulare County Historical Society Annual Meeting Frank […]

Hobbies

San Francisco with Mary

I love to eat. I am not a foody, but Mary is. I love nice clothes. I am not a shopper, but Mary is. I love to travel. I […]

Personal Stories

Does This Help?

This is the uncropped version. Some of you were close. I never saw it streaked this way. Here are some other versions in different places along my walk yesterday. How […]

Non-profit

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

January – Thirty years ago student teachers HAD to be a member of a professional organization as part of their graduation requirements. Although it is no longer mandatory, social studies […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: Christmas

Jake has done it again – a post to challenge my photographic abilities. I haven’t been too successful with night pictures or inside pictures. So here is my trial. Thanks […]

Education

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Delicate suggests many diverse meanings. Curiously, now and again what seems delicate may actually be quite strong, and conversely, when something appears heavy, mechanical, sturdy or awkward may have delicate […]

Hobbies

Travel Theme: Circles

Definition: A circle is the locus of all points equidistant from a central point. Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack, dreamed up a theme that made my mind go in circles trying to […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

A dear friend gave me wool yarn from Australia to make a warm sweater as a departure gift from Colorado Springs. It was summer, and even in Colorado we weren’t […]

Travel

Book Review: Entertaining an Elephant

Thank you and congratulations to Larry Otter, the 30th “LIKE” on my new Facebook page, GOLD STAR! Thanks to the many others that also pressed “LIKE” Many of you are teachers, […]

Hobbies

The End of Fall

Tulare County, approximately the size of Connecticut, has two climates. One is mountainous – the Sierra Nevada, home of the Sequoia National Park. The other, home of over 400,000 cows, […]

Book Reviews

Book Review: The Everything Theory

Dianne Gray became my blogger friend four months and three weeks ago now, and we have rallied blogger chit-chat back and forth between our blogs. As I read her blog […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

As I reflect on my blogging experiment this first day of December, I realize that it has gone from experiment to addictive hobby. I am thankful to all of you […]

Travel

A Wig and a Promise

Earlier this week I was commenting back and forth with Autty Jade about the wig she is wearing in her new grivitar picture. One thing led to another, and I […]

Education

Sunday Post: Natural Resources

I’ve been hoping for a challenge in which I could post these photos of wind machines. Thanks Jake. Air is probably our most precious and abused natural resource in California […]

Hobbies

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange

Have you figured out how to read everybody’s blogs when you get the emails? I haven’t. They pile up, and then when I have time I start through them. I […]

Travel

Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer.

Kristen Lamb, author of Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer., writes non-fiction in a folksy, easy to understand style. Read like good fiction, the pages of this how-to book […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

This week’s photo challenge by WordPress, Thankful , conjures up pictures of food, family, friends, and material objects. Beyond our immediate circle of influence and interaction, our country, and the peace, […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: Architecture

If you haven’t been to http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/sunday-post-architecture/#comments , and you like photography, and you need ideas for a short posts, Jake is your guy. I love this because even as amateur […]

photography

Magnified Fall in the Foothills

Happy Thanksgiving!!! It’s always good to be home, even though there are no cultural places to visit nearby, or Diners and Dives restaurants. There’s also little rain, traffic, or noise […]

Blogging

Internet Purgatory Solutions

I’m beginning to feel jinxed as I struggle technologically to blog. First I had my problems just learning the ropes, then I started jumping unannounced and uninvited into people’s spam […]

Blogging

Trackbacks, Pings

… [Trackback]… […] There you will find 77615 more Infos: tchistorygal.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/spam-and-stats/ […]… Not Spam | Delete Permanently “A trackback is an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is sent via a network signal (ping) from […]

Hobbies

Mama’s Fish House

Once in a lifetime you should save your pennies and head to Mama’s Fish House. OK make that save your $20.00 bills. To a mainlander it’s almost indescribable. Click to make […]

Hobbies

Horseback in Hawaii

Like Lesley Carter, I have my bucket list. I also hold, sometimes unrealistic, admiration for people, and, because of that, I want to try to do the things they do. […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign. In this case I chose to focus on the word foreign meaning outside the United States […]

Travel

Week at Ka’anapali Beach Club (KBC)

Do you prefer to relax or be very active on a vacation? Ka’anapali Beach Club, one of the Diamond Resorts in Maui, HI, might be a place you would enjoy. […]

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