I live in the South, y’all.  We love our pulled pork.  Love. It. I thought about how ridiculously easy it was to make and that maybe you’d like to try it (if you haven’t already). #1) Buy a pork shoulder.  During the holiday season, these bad boys are relatively inexpensive.  I buy in bulk and …

…or as we say here in Texas, going to the dawgs. My family is big on dogs.  Big, hairy, messy dogs.  Husband and I have had them our entire married life, with only a sad two-year period when we were dogless, yet Boy’s crusty cantankerous 18-year-old, then 19-year-old, cat remained. We started our married life …

I was suckered by Pinterest…again! A baker, a trusted baker, said she’d found the perfect white cake recipe; she promised I’d never have to look again.  It was her own recipe, one she had adapted from a well-known source, that she promised she had made much better.  With that kind of hype, and her trusted …

The title of this post is something Husband said to me after I got the call to head to Boy and Girl’s home to help with Sweet E, but couldn’t because I had caught a cold. You’d Never Make It In The Big Leagues Yes, we relate our life to sports stuff around here.  I …

When Boy was an itty-bitty and suffered from chronic bronchitis, taking his temp was a challenge.  It was either by armpit as a baby (I never felt comfortable with checking by way of the nether regions) or by mouth as a youngster.  Both ways left me wondering if I got an accurate reading. ~ A …

Some days nothing but a frosted brownie will do.  Hello, lover… Yep, some days require a little one-on-one time with some quality chocolate and a generous dose of cream cheese frosting.  Hello, darling… The dirty little secret here, is that sometimes I bake from a box and add a splash of my own homemade signature …

Yep.  A new first.  I was nervous and excited just like with all my other firsts.  I was jonesing for this first.  Had been waiting all day.  The anticipation was high; emotions were out. of. control. Then, as my first became a reality, I realized it was actually two new firsts: #1) Holding my new …

We got the call at 4am.  Husband rolled over and smiled, “It’s GO-TIME!” We scrambled out of bed and ran around with 4am excitement ruling everything we did.  For the most part we got everything in the car that was meant to come with us, then off we went into a dark, foggy driving rain. …

What have we here? It’s cake…a Pineapple Upside Down Cake baked in a genu-wine cast iron pan, y’all! Starts looking ordinary, like this (ho-hum): But, if you do it right, turns out all gooey and caramel-y and pineapple-y, like this: My B-I-L, one of the outlaws (as I count myself), did the nicest thing for …

Who just had this reaction after reading that title: ~gag~?! Come on now, you should know better than that.  OMT isn’t gonna gross you out. As a site owner/blogger/occasional iffy vlogger, I do lots of rooting around the Internets looking for the very best for you.  While this site is mainly focused on grandparents and …