§ Wave Walkers...at the Mall---

Before the shoppers arrived one morning, on another damp and wet, rainy day...in order to get my daily walking in, Bud and I ventured into the larger mall in town. Being early, the stores were not open. For us seniors, and others in different age groups, walking the mall is a membership if you wish. We're called Wave Walkers around here in Corpus. As we walked, we window shopped, trying to keep our pace rapid. I just had to stop this one time!! I saw this. I can see myself purchasing him this bargain. "And to think", I told Bud in jest..."I can get myself another treat at half off!". Bud just smiled and kept walking. Then, ahead of me, as I was wiping my drool off the glass store window with a tissue, licking my lips from the candy display, Bud had stopped, and was gazing at something of interest. As I was catching up to him I secretly wished the stores would have these semi-annual sales monthly! Good thing tho, probably, my heart couldn't take the pounding sales like that all that much. But I sure could mix and match with ease.


So, I catch up with him. He found payback something that caught his eye for sure I bet. If this was his way of telling me he could play the game with me...I'll give him that! But I put the hipper dipper on his morning when I said to him "How nice!" His proud shoulders dropped then, and we moved on. But, not without getting a photo of Bud...see his reflection in the window, by the R and T in the word heart? I swear he was watering at the mouth over this display. Heck, what goes best with candy that'll melt in your mouth? You're right! "Got Milk?" That really made him more grumpy. Off we went...doing more window shopping as we walked our hour away.........





Come, walk with us as we get our exercising in for the day---










When our time walking was coming to a close, Bud took this last photo asking me to make a wish at the center fountain...betcha can't guess what I wished for that very day? More candy perhaps? I'll never tell!!!










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This past Friday I found in my comments a special gift for me. Anne passed this Beautiful Blogger Award on to me. I'm always very humbled that other bloggers and blogging peers show me they enjoy Hootin' Anni's!! It brings me much joy. I want to thank Anne from the bottom of my heart. You certainly made my day.






I'm now obligated to list seven things about me:

1] Roses are my favorite flower
2] Purple is one of my favorite colors
3] I still want to slide into a room when I hear "Gimme that Ol' Time Rock and Roll"
4] I love to find objects created in cloud formations
5] I love making my own tortillas from scratch
6] One of my favorite lines in the movie JAWS is: "You're gonna need a bigger boat." [Chief Brody]
7] At the drop of a hat, if someone told me it's free living...I'd move to England.


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To all the beautiful bloggers out there, I'd like to pass this on to

Call me Grandma Dawn
Country Wings in Phoenix
Thom
1 Door Away From Heaven
Our Adventures with Tassie



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ALSO NOTE for Firefox Browser patrons: I just upgraded my browser to FF 3.6; after installing and opening browser, the first window was FF Personas. I've not heard of them before. Maybe 'cause I have never taken the time to check everything out. With the note upon the completion of installing the upgrade, I clicked on the link and found this!! There is over 3000 browser PERSONAS!!! I just changed mine to a St. Patrick's Day theme. What fun...so much to choose from and so little time to peruse them all!! BEGIN HERE











POSTED: Monday, February 22nd, 2010
12:50 A.M.

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Heads or Tails category this week: "SHAKE"

Well, there are two things that came to my mind when I read the theme for this week. A memory of my childhood. Well, actually BOTH of the items I thought of came from my youth. When I was a youngster of 5 or 6, each Saturday after my dad got home from work, I, my brother, my sister and my mother were are cleaned up nice for a night out for dinner. It wasn't anything fancy, no sit down type restaurant; those kind were unaffordable by my parents' one worker income! But,none the less, we were happy to be able to go out to eat. It was in Lincoln, Nebraska, right down town on the main street. That was "O" street. It still IS considered main street, tho it's now part of 'old town' Lincoln. The place was a drive-up type where you sit in the car and eat, or order and take it home. We were all gussied up to sit in the car! LOL Still, I remember the fun time had by us all. The drive up was called "The Mug". Outside the building, even from the distance of about a mile or so, driving along and waiting for traffic lights to change green, on the horizon, I could see peeking through the front seat [back in those days the front seat was a 'whole seat' with the backrest flipping down for the ones who rode along in the back seat could get into the car...there was a slim gap between dad's backrest and mom's [the passenger] ---anyway, I could peek through there and see this huge, monstrous, colossal, giant chocolate sculpture --a billboard like, and it was a chocolate Milk Shake...in the "Mug". They were thick, icy cold, sweet, and oh such a Saturday night time treat for us all. Oh we all ordered cheeseburgers with the shakes.

Then, a bit older but still a child of probably pre teen, I remember a commercial of a new product that was sweeping the nation. It was called....Shake N Bake! Not only was the commercial insipid, but so was the product! Of course my mom, who loved to cook by the way, wanted to try it. You know, something new. Something that would make her meal not so mundane for her loved ones. She convinced dad to buy the two kinds....the pork, and the chicken. Now my mother's fried chicken was out of this world 'southern fried'. And her fried pork chops were always good too. [I, tho, really liked the potatoes and the gravy from the pan drippings most!] Anyway, we helped or watched her prepare the new stuff. It smelled good while cooking...we all sat down at the table [yes, back then, if you didn't eat with the parents at 'dinner time' you were out of luck! You missed your chance! We ALL sat at the table and dined together!] So, we sat down -dad was always first to get his share and then he'd pass it to us kids...we each got a chop or a piece of chicken...and all the other fixin's ---ready, eat! Ewwwwwwww. Nasty!!! Needless to say, none of us got a chance to say to everyone "No daddy, it's Shake n Bake, and I he'pt"!! It never came in our house again. Mom's from scratch cookin' was soooo much better.

photo above IS Lincoln Nebraska and it's main street "O" Street. Circa 1940's.
courtesy of internet photo search.

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Sunday afternoon, after reading about the new browser for anyone to download and install, I thought I'd give it a try. Well, I did! And I disliked it from the get-go. Let me explain....

With Firefox you have so many options and so many ad-on features that I did NOT find with Google Chrome. And the ONE THING that I really 'need' while browsing is the Ad Block! While working with the new browser I opened some of my bookmarks that were automatically imported to Google's new browser that was an option as installing. I began clicking on those bookmarks of mine and so many ads and animations began to appear! No way! So, tho it seems pretty well organized, I would prefer my Firefox. That, to me, is the most user friendly browser around. Nope...Google Chrome Browser, while the features are somewhat innovative and less cluttered, there just aren't my favorite features available while I surf the net. It'll continue to be Firefox usage for me. I'll wait a while and then test drive the new browser again to see if there are any features that make more sense in the future. Also, Google's new browser, as with Google Earth, and many more exe files from Google's downloads, it seems that privacy is not an issue with those that program their new files for the computer and internet users. And, by the way, it is STILL in Beta, so there WILL be a lot of tweaking before it's all set up with the best features possible, I suppose.