Goodbye, Jackie

 Posted by at 9:08 am  Eureka Moments
Dec 192011
 

Longtime friends here at JuicyMaters knew Jackie.  She was a little halfbreed…more like 57 breed mix, really..dog that I got last year when she was about 6 weeks old.  Remember…I asked y’all for help naming her, being unable to do better than DAD…short for Dumb A** Dog…myself.  I got a few suggestions from y’all, and a threat from Irish, my 6 ft tall redheaded friend, that no matter what I BETTER get away from DAD, so the puppy wound up being named Jackie. Jackie was a small dog, around 20-25 lbs I would guess, and not really my type.  I like big dogs, like Rotties and Mastiffs, but I tolerated Jackie.  After all, she had been gifted to me by a desperate neighbor. Jennifer, the neighbor, had [read more...]

Who ARE y’all, anyway?

 Posted by at 10:57 pm  Eureka Moments, Family Homesteading, In the Kitchen, Yurt Yak
Dec 142011
 

When I ask “who are y’all”, it is YOU I am asking.  Not some other person who might be reading this a city or state or even country away from you..and not even that visiting neighbor who is reading this over your shoulder, but YOU! You see…I kinda know who you are in a general sort of way.  The software I use to maintain my websites tells me  little about my readers.  For example, I know that 86% of my readers use the Firefox browser.  I know that my “average” reader is a 34 year old stay at home mom, and from that I would guess that a lot of you are conservative middle America types.  I know that about 68% of my readers Print [read more...]