If you’re my friend on Facebook, you know that I forgot my lunch one day at work this week. No problem…working downtown it’s a pretty simple matter to walk to one of the local food trucks for an inexpensive, delicious meal. One truck that I’ve been itching to visit is SsahmBBQ. These guys have a […]
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Removing Silver Tarnish: How Pinterest Sometimes Sort-of Lies
I saw a pin on Pinterest many months ago that I knew I had to try out: A how-to on removing tarnish from your silver all at once. Here’s the how-to photo: And the instructions: De-tarnish ALL your silver ALL at once… line your sink with aluminum foil, add 1/2 c table salt, 1/2 c. […]
Dive Expedition: Afrah
The Boy and I, plus our besties, went on a dive expedition over the holidays to Afrah. The Boy had eaten there – well, technically from there – at a couple of work functions. He’d gone on and on about how good the food was. Because it was the holidays, that meant we could […]
Dive Expedition: Ye Ole Butcher Shop
For years, The Boy and I have driven past a butcher shop near old downtown Plano, Texas. Scratch that – not past a butcher shop. We drove past the Butcher Shop. Last month The Boy noticed Ye Ole Butcher Shop and asked what it was. I looked it up online and learned that it was a […]
Discovering Another Dive
Just a quick post today about another great hometown restaurant The Boy and I visited last week. I’ve driven past this place several times over the past three months. The only thing memorable about the outside that caught my eye was its location: a former Quizno’s that we ate at a decade ago. […]
Discovering a Dive
We have a serious food love-crush on a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant in East Texas. We have yet to find a hole-in-the-wall restaurant to love with that same type of devotion here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. That is, until last weekend. We had time on our hands (shocking, I know), so we decided to explore […]
RIP to My Favorites
The networks have released their schedules for the fall. For the Hayleys, that means it’s an opportunity for us to learn which of the shows that we love have gotten the axe. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend – if a television show is mindless, features sophomoric humor and/or is “reality” based, it will receive a […]
A Year in Review
It’s funny to look back on the year that was – surprising, in many ways. My thoughts, hopes, goals and plans often are brushed aside by the unexpected. Never was that more true than in 2011. We’ve taken to calling 2011 the year of Great Sadness. The Niece moved out, my grandfather passed away, we lost […]
Most Popular Post: 2011 Edition
Looking over my blog statistics this year, I was surprised to learn that my most popular post (based on number of unique readers, not number of comments) this year came from early in 2011. I was housesitting for a friend during the Great Ice Storm of February 2011. Once the roads were driveable (slide-able?) again, The […]
Another One Bites the Dust
The Boy surprised me with a 101 List item on the way downtown to see Michael W. Smith perform with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. We were running late – correction, I was running late – so we weren’t able to stop for the nice pre-concert dinner that we had planned. Since we were short on […]