Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Strictly Physical

  • After every storm the sun will smile…

    "After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer." ~ William R. Alger We finally had enough rain this week to leave small pools in limestone bed of Long Hollow creek and set the frogs singing in celebration of…

  • Another Healthy Choice

    When I was growing up, one of my favorite meals was the Swanson sliced roast beef frozen dinner. We called them TV dinners back then. I believe it came with corn, mashed potatoes, and some kind of yummy crumbly berry dessert, all tucked into separate compartments of the aluminum foil tray.  My mother kept those…

  • A Healthy Choice on a Hot Day

    Stumbling into the house, weighed down by five overloaded grocery bags to avoid a second trip uphill to my car, and sweating from the heat of this Texas summer, all I could think about was breaking into one of the Healthy Choice Greek Frozen Yogurts buried in one of the bags.  You've probably guessed this…

  • So if you get a summer cold…

    I caught a cold last week. It's a matter of pride to me that I never, ever, ever get sick…so, of course, I had to eat my words when I felt that ache in my bones and started sneezing, coughing, and blowing my nose. (That's what happens when you you say "never", right?) I know…

  • From Wednesday

    The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Eliot   These days, more than ever, I'm trying stay focused on the minute I'm standing in…to not let my mind replay…

  • Five Things on Friday

      I hate to wish time away, but this has been a long, tiring week, and I'm glad to be on the other side of it, with two more real estate classes behind me. Four down, two to go. Then the BIG TEST.     I missed four morning walks in a row! I felt…

  • Breathing…and other sweet things in life

    We've been on a rollercoaster ride with my parents the past two days…my sister, Brenda, on the front lines with them, dealing with EMS and emergency rooms…me on the receiving end of texts and phone updates from her.   It started yesterday, when Daddy apparently had a mini-stroke. The sweet! of it is he made…

  • 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?…

  • “I See You” does it again. Sweet!

      I'm so grateful my friend Lisa asked me to take some photos of her colts last year, and that I went kind of crazy, snapping away at all of the horses in the pasture, because on Tuesday I was Huffington Post's Featured Fifty Fine Artist, all because of that beautiful horse up there. That…

  • 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…