Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Family

  • Five Things on Friday

    1. I've captured Belle leaping three days in a row now. All I had to do was write about how I kept getting distracted at the last minute, and BOOM! now I stay focused. It took about fifty years, but I've finally figured out how to manipulate myself. How do you trick, er, train yourself?…

  • Evolution of a Career Woman

        I'm home from my first real estate class. I don't count the one Tom and I took when I was pregnant with our firstborn. That was almost thirty years ago…and to be honest, it just didn't click with me at the time…maybe because I was pregnant, attending class after working a twelve-hour shift.…

  • Music, and Sweet Summer Nights

       Strong lager and some early Zep tunes.  I ask thee, is there a better way to spend an evening?  ~Author Unknown Well, I wasn't drinking strong lager, and they weren't early Zep tunes, but I did spend a great Wednesday evening listening to rock and blues, watching the sun go down in Austin's Zilker…

  • The Simple Things are the Sweetest

    Dawn is waking to rain and thunder this morning. She must have pulled the covers back over her head because the Hollow is still dark outside my window, except for occasional flashes of lightning. On a normal morning, the puppies and I would already be out on the dirt road, saying hello to the new…

  • A Rich Inheritance (Happy Father’s Day!)

    Friday my mother thought Daddy was having a stroke. She's seen enough of them to recognize the symptoms in him. He wouldn't let her call an ambulance, so she called my sister, who in turn called me en route to their house.  The kids and I already had plans to leave early yesterday morning to…

  • Sons, Sunday mornings, and other sweet!s

    I'm not proud to admit this, but I missed church this morning because of the rain.  Right about the time Daniel and I were going to head out the door (Tom was still snoozing!) – already running late because we had to let the terrified dogs into the laundry room – the break in the…

  • Why I’m My Father’s Daughter

      If Daddy answers the phone when I call my parents, our conversation is a quick one. "I can't talk," he'll complain.  "You sound fine to me," I'll tell him.  "What? I can't hear you. Here's your mother." And that's that. Strokes have taken their toll on his vocal chords. The effort to speak is…

  • Movies (and other sweet!s)

    The past few days have been a blur between working at the winery, job applications, taking care of the puppies, a little bit of writing…and watching movies. I've watched four since Friday night and I'll be watching another one in just a few minutes. I'm not sure if I've ever watched that many in such…

  • The Sugar on Top, Part 2 – Happy 80th Birthday, Mom!

    Today is my beautiful mother-in-law's 80th birthday. She didn't want a big celebration, although she deserves it after raising nine boys into nine wonderful men. …Probably because that would tempt all nine boys plus their families to converge on her house (or nearby vicinity) all at once…and even for a wonderful mother, that's a lot…

  • Raindrops and Photo Shoots

    Saturday morning I woke to the sound of rain. Lots and lots of rain. I staggered to my computer and pulled up radar of our area. A huge green and yellow blob was blinking its way straight for us. A blessing for sure in this time of drought, two days in a row of serious…