Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Food and Drink

  • Thanksgiving Comes First

    This is a repost. I hope one day I can stop reposting it…   Halloween is behind us. According to the calendar, the next holiday here in the states is Veteran's Day, followed by Thanksgiving, but have you noticed there are already Christmas commercials on the TV and jingle bells are taking over the stores?…

  • Saturday Nights and other sweet!s

        There was roast pig and birthday cake. Wine and dancing.   A gorgeous sunset over the hills.    A warm fire. Familiar faces. Laughter and hugs.   50th birthdays are the best! I love helping friends celebrate them, especially when it means I get to spend time with my son and daughter-in-law…    …

  • Not-So-Hidden Treasure

    I've been driving in, around, and through Austin for almost 20 years now, but for the most part, I have traveled the same routes over and over and over. Lately, I've been venturing out into unknown territory so that I'm better acquainted this wonderful city and its neighborhoods, and that's how I discovered this vintage…

  • New Careers, Full Moons, Church Bazaars, and other sweet!s

    Long ago I dreamed of having the job I have now…only I didn't know what it was at the time. Does that make sense? As with any entrepreneurial endeavor, it's agonizingly slow getting started, but I'm confident in my abilities and that I'm on the right track. That's sweet! all by itself. (But if you,…

  • The Sweet Sound of Rain

    When it rains, you grow. ~ On a local church sign   I woke to the sound of rain Sunday morning. Such a sweet sound when you live near a lake that now resembles a creek after months…well, years…of too much sunshine and too little precipitation. Tonight the frogs living near our pond are singing…

  • Sunshine in My House

    "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." ~William Makepeace Thackeray   We were already running late to church this morning when we spotted him, a little dirty-white fluff of a dog at the top of our dirt road near the highway. I knew before he asked that Daniel would want to get out and…

  • Six Things on Saturday

      1. Wednesday night, as I drove home from a meeting, the huge Harvest Moon broke through the clouds, beaming bright on the road ahead of me. I relished the beauty of it, but would you believe I didn't even think about grabbing my camera when I got home? Something must be wrong with me.…

  • Bittersweet

          I spotted it when I stepped out onto the front porch one morning this past week, in between trips to Houston. I noticed the fossil first, thinking it had fallen from its spot on the windowsill above the bench where it now rested. Then I realized it had been placed there to…

  • Healthy, but Hearty!

    For years, my family ate a lot of pasta and noodles. Especially lasagna, after my brother-in-law pointed out to me the no-boil recipe on the side of the box. So easy! And then my family got sick of lasagna. So for the past few years, especially once it was just me and Tom, we've mainly…

  • Saving Roadrunners and other sweet!s of the week

    I was walking up our front path to my car one morning this week when I heard a banging noise coming from a camper shell sitting to one side of the driveway/parking area at the top of the walkway. The shell mostly rests on the ground, but one side of it projects over a small…