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When I (let’s be honest, rather Danny), created my Match.com profile, I was looking for a playmate who cycled. I was not looking to upend the life that I have built over the past few years. What appears to be in front of me is something way more than I thought I was looking for.Continue reading “Wonderment”

Spending time in the presence of someone I am so comfortable with is such a joy. Match Dude has been pleasantly surprised by how “rural” feeling my “city” place is. His dog Buckley is coming for a visit today. Buckley spends much of his time at The Garden outdoors with an electric fence or inContinue reading “Letting time go lightly”

While I was driving through the 5 miles of rural Tennessee between the interstate and The Garden, I was transported back in time as I drove by a field of very tall, good looking corn. It looked every bit as good as corn grown in Iowa – which is not supposed to be possible. IContinue reading “Match.com profile coming down!!”

Here is the apple pie and pecan tart things. Things went pretty much according to plan except that I forgot to protect the edges of the pie so it go a little brown. This morning I blind baked the crust for the quiche with pie weights and it went great. I sautéed shrimp onion, spinachContinue reading “A bit distracted this morning”

My departure from the NIDDK in 2021 was less than smooth but I really didn’t expect hostile behavior on their part. The best example is that within a few weeks after my official departure date, I was invited to participate in a author phone call for a manuscript based on work done by the PLUSContinue reading “A haunting mystery”

Match Man shared this with me. It was shared with him by one of his songwriting buddies, It appears that this is framed on his wall and you almost see his reflection as he snapped the picture. Under the reflection you see that Falon was in the 6th grade when she wrote this. WOW

Last November when visiting college friend Deb, she served a homemade apple pie for dinner and the combination of the texture of the crust and the “flavor/texture” of the filling gave me a “happy mouth”. I realized that while I grew up baking cookies, cakes and brownies, I had never advanced to making a pieContinue reading “Anticipation – is a pie crust just a pie crust?”

A friend recommended this movie today based on reading about it and a recommendation from her friend. I went to see it essentially knowing very little about it except it the movie was about child sex trafficking and there was some concern about some concern about the movie and QAnon. It apparently was made byContinue reading “Sound of Freedom – A MUST See Movie”

While my first 10 days on Match.com was anything but satisfying – suggested matches were over 80, conservative men for the most part, it turned around on June 26th. One of the many men that I indicated interest in responded to my initial message and we started a very tentative text conversation on Match.com. IContinue reading “A budding romance???”

While I was on the cruise to Hawaii, I started renovations on my bathrooms so I had workers in and out of my condo. On March 29th, the workers found water on the floors from my upstairs neighbor’s water heater. I didn’t find out about it for a few days but the contractors contacted theContinue reading “Home Insurance Woes”