Make stuffing your choice of ways. Add a small can of fresh oysters. I drain them and don’t add the water from the oyster can to my dressing. I remove the hard square that looks like gristle and cut the remaining oyster into small pieces and mix well into the dressing.

I cut up onions and celery, sautéed them in butter and add to the broken up toasted bread. Add a few choice herbs. Add a broth made from hot water and chicken bouillon. Mix well and stuff turkey. Coat outside of turkey with softened butter to bake it to a golden brown. Salt well and place in oven to bake according to directions on turkey package. Continue reading


“In a couple years I’ll move back up north!” Twenty eight years of living in the beautiful land of sunshine and flowers and each year I told my family the same thing. Then came the 2005 Christmas!

I flew to Pittsburg airport for a three weeks visit with my daughter Pamela her husband Tracy and my granddaughters Evin and Sarah. That gave me two weeks before Christmas Day and fly home on New Year’s Day.

Soon after arriving my daughter casually mentioned that a condo was for sale and ask if I would like to go with her to see it. The picture in the newspaper add looked quite interesting and I said I would love to.

She called the listing agent and ask for a showing and told her we would meet her at the condo. It was adorable and by the time we got to the sun room with its three walls of glass and even a tall narrow window on the fourth wall I had practically moved in. Continue reading


We had just closed on the Florida home I had sold to this delightful couple from Pennsylvania. After they moved she called and ask me to come to her new home.

She explained to me that they had closed out their business before moving to Florida and was showing me some things that hadn’t sold. One was a little very old Shirley Temple doll about 11 inches tall, then she brought out another one about 18 inches tall that wasn’t quite as old. Continue reading