By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate It is hard to believe that this month would have been mom’s 90th birthday. As a kid I remember thinking that I could not picture my mother as an old woman. She would be young and superwoman forever. I wish that had been true. ...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I hope everyone had a very enjoyable and safe 4th of July. Mine was spent as usual, home with my scared fur babies. I did get some trazodone from the vet to keep them calm. It did help but you have to give it...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate What is going on with our country? We have the son of a sitting president that gets off with a wrist slap for something that other people are in jail for. And then he pleads to a lesser charge and gets off with nothing. ...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Stopped in Walmart on my way to work this morning and I have been mad ever since. I just needed two things and I got those, on my way from the back of the store I spotted some nectarines in the produce isle. I...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Summer is upon us once again and I am glad to see some sunshine after all the smoky haze we have had from the Canadian wildfires. My sinuses are happy about that too. If you don’t have sinus problems you cannot understand what that...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I am so glad the forecast is calling for rain because this smoke from Canada is killing me. I know we are not getting it as bad as the northern states but it has been so hazy this week that I can actually smell...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Well summer has surpassed spring with a vengeance. The temperature has been in the 90’s already and that is breaking records that have stood for decades. Momma Said, “If you play with fire you will get burned so wear your sunscreen.” I have found...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I was very disheartened today when I heard my favorite female singer of all time had passed away. I have listened to Tina Turner’s music since I was a teenager. I lived through all the grief that Ike Turner put her through and still...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I think I am going to live through this crap that is going around. I have struggled to the surface of a tumultuous sea of snot and can now see the horizon. My ship just about went down a couple times but I survived. ...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Flowers are blooming, trees are budding out and the snot is running fast. Yes my friends it is allergy season and I am in misery. It is that time of year when hundreds of thousands of people are afflicted with watery, itching eyes and...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I just found out something this past weekend that has me mad as all get out. I found out that a disabled Veteran has lost his medical privileges just because he was raised from being 10% disabled to 20% disabled because he makes too...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I am clean, I smell a lot better and I was actually glad to wash dishes. My brother got my water problem fixed this past weekend and I love him for helping me. Now when he gets ready to redo his whole water system...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I have been having the worst luck lately. My idler bearing in the trusty Jeep started squeaking and I need to have that fixed then my hot water heater stopped working. Found out it was a burnt up thermostat and that in turn burned...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate It is that time of year again to get out in the gardens and flower beds. Mine are a mess and I hope I still have some of my plants and bushes to come back this year. I had a HUGE problem last year...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The prices of gas are just really doing a number on my brain. I don’t understand how you can have five gas stations and all of them have a difference price. And not just a price that is reasonable it is up to...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate March has gone out like a lamb with a little rain and April has blown its way across the Northeast like a freight train on the fast track. We have gotten some stiff winds lately and I am about done with it. I have...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Easter is almost here already and the Easter Bunny is going to have a very soggy tail with all this rain. He might have to get inside an egg and roll around instead of hopping. Momma Said, “Always make the best of any bad...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Spring has sprung and I am so happy. The Spring Equinox was March 22 and the time has sprung forward, maybe for the last time. I am seeing more and more trees already starting to bud and I hope we don’t get a late...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I am trying so hard to socialize Ripley with other dogs and it is just not happening. The only dogs she has been around are her sisters and my brother’s dogs. She is so hyper that it is going to take some work. I...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Hurray, the robins are back, the daffodils are starting to bloom and I even have some crocus popping their little heads up to look for spring. I can’t say I am sick of winter because in our area we have not had any winter...
