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Tuesday Tale - livingwithloulou.com
Well, mama doesn’t usually publish long pieces, but this one is fun, and I was still being catnapped to Italy from my new secure status in my little village home, but I thought you might enjoy the rerun with its recipes for summer dishes, Tonnato Time – Summer in the City Everyone is worried about […]
Monday Mourning - livingwithloulou.com
❤️ Our hearts go out to Texas and the loss of so many. No words suffice for this tragedy. ******** Our spark today is from Victor Hugo: Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” The United States of America became a nation of people who overcame powerful adversity to create a strong and influential country […]
Sat Cat Snapshot - livingwithloulou.com
Well, mama found this wonderful effect on Lunapic, of course, and it’s called Adventure. Maybe I’m about to have one, non? You never know around here… Mama is having one for sure. After 98.6 degrees earlier, it rained! Now it has stopped and tomorrow is another HOT day. Go figure… ***** We are so very […]
4th Fill-Ins - livingwithloulou.com
Well, mama filled in today. They are handing out earplugs where I am and I’m in line for my pair! Hey, you guys, I’m an XS, I think. ***** 1. My plans for July 4th include __a little grilled chicken with rosemary and garlic and memories of and reflections on how we became the USA! […]
Thanks - livingwithloulou.com
Uh, could the weatherpeople up there send a bit more AC? This garden is simmering… ***** For you, as always, and above all, thanks always for you! For a blooming hibiscus that always fools us as it lies asleep in winter. For a second rose-bloom because of this heat. For a cool breeze today from […]
Wordless - livingwithloulou.com
We have computers up here….I’m writing my Senator and Congress-person. We have no words today for what is happening to those on Medicaid, social programs to help the needy, the addition to an already HUGE deficit,.no words. If you read Ms Cox report, you will see that when you thought things could not get worse, […]
To Your Health - livingwithloulou.com
Mama says we can’t hide from what is happening…. Please take a look. Your health is being manipulated by the administration and a heath quack named Kennedy. I have to publish this when it conerns all of us. ALL of us. On a happier note: Mama ate these in Italy long ago where she found […]
Monday Moves... - livingwithloulou.com
🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 Good morning, all. May this brighten your day. 👎👎👎 Especially since: Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo also called out that at a press conference in the Netherlands last Wednesday, Trump said he had given Iran permission to bomb a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear […]
Fun Sun? - livingwithloulou.com
Sweltering snooze selfie…. Well, not so fun when the AC is tempermemtal! But our nice guy will be back in town today and says he’ll try to come by TODAY, Sunday, if her can get here, or it has to be tomorrow. Mama is making extra ice cubes… At least the tomatoes like this weather! […]
Cat on Sat - livingwithloulou.com
Ninety degrees and I am tuckered! The AC even went out up here, can you believe it? I guess no place is without its little glitches nowadays, haha. Keep cool and calm, Do not do strenuous things…maybe lift a glass of iced tea or lemonade. Okay, that’s IT. STOP. 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 This is Lunapic’s Beauty and […]
Fun Friday - livingwithloulou.com
Am I staying cool or what? My cloud has AC… Well, it’s just to hot to think, so I let mama take these on: 1. Lately, my main focus is __trying not to have the orange-haired madman in my daily life. 2. I crave __cool suppers and LOVE reading during a nap in the hot […]
Merci - livingwithloulou.com
So cool in garden leaves. Making sure that strong wind didn’t whip the tomatoes right off their vines! Even where I hang out up there, it’s HOT. Merci to all of you. All readers. For alll comments, love them. For balmy, soft summer days, For the wind from the Sahara that coated everything with light […]
Tuesday Tucker - livingwithloulou.com
Tuckered on the turf…a lazy garden visit… Well, mama has been pulling weeds in this heat and making cookies and trying to clean up around here and sending things to grandkids that are long overdue and writing her Substack and more so let’s just say that she and I are in tuckered-out mode today. […]
Start Of Week Stats - livingwithloulou.com
Before the stats, a spark for the week: Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Ain’t that the truth! Well, we had heat in the 30s this morn and the sweet 96-year-old friend, Lilly, whom we take by the sea each week has asked to hold off for awhile. It’s just too […]
Sunday Stir-Fry and Gazpacho Goodness - livingwithloulou.com
Chilling out in the cool mulch… Well, mama has some leftover pork from ribs that papa likes from our Sunday market rotisserie man, Fabrice, a genius with sausages, chickens, ribs, quail and more, and she is stir-frying it later with green onion tops, rice and eggs mixed in at the end with soy sauce, cornstarch, […]
Friday Fillers - livingwithloulou.com
My comfy cloud 9… and there were 8 more before this one! Mama did these with glee, whoever that is… 1. I avoid __poisonous and negative discussions and anthros__ like the plague. 2. I hope to __Oh, boy, do so many things and see so many events in our little village and cook so many […]
A Significant June Teenth - livingwithloulou.com
Couldm’t resist this wonderful photo that signifies the importance of emancipation. Today is a national holiday, June Teenth. There may be some who do not know the origin of this very important change in American history, and we are more than thankful for this day of liberation Ms Richardson’s short video explains all, but did […]
Spark For Every Day - livingwithloulou.com
To thine ownself be true. Act 1, scene 3 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Our spark is an old one but so important today, as always. Follow your heart, your brain, your evidence, your facts and your truths and you will never fail…Stand fast in your knowledge and trust yourself. If you can, please read.
Pepper Paste and Parades - livingwithloulou.com
Mama’s making pepper paste. This kitty is puttin’ the paws on the paving stones…zzzzzz At the family reunion, mama’s stepgrandkid, Julian, a vegan, made a fantastic pepper paste to dip in with crackers or toss with pasta or simply spoon into one’s mouth! SO delicious. 3 red sweet peppers, roasted and peeled 1/4 cup olive […]
Fill-ipping OUT - livingwithloulou.com
Mama is doing my blog down below, BUT FIRST: Please read about the senator who was thrown to the floor and handcuffed, by members of the homeland security bimbo’s staff, as the Senator tried to address the meeting on immigration. Please read Heather Cox Richardson today. Please. Outrageous. And they can do this to YOU. […]
Tuesday Tickles - livingwithloulou.com
Mama, could you clean up this garden, PLEASE, for me? This old mulch is not that comfortable. Maybe I’ll bring my cloud down…. 😻😻😻 If you get a chance to watch a birthday tribute to Joan Rivers on Instagram, do it!!! It brightened mama’s day yesterday as it re-ran some of her favorite jokes and […]
Words For Wednesday - livingwithloulou.com
A private WC for my watering… 🌺🌸🌺 A wonderful French senator, Claude Malhuret, is speaking out against Washington and Trump. There are English subtitltes. He speaks out almost daily on the danger that T poses to the world, TO ALL OF US, Republicans and Democrats, And now an outspoken Republican, Don Bacon, is showing […]
Monday Mantra - livingwithloulou.com
An old photo but it was my Who Cares photo so I’m using it again. Mama wanted to share these two or three sparks for Monday that the kids and she came up with during our 8-day reunion. Mama started them off with one you know: Just here, just now, just this. Which they […]
Sunday Self-Governing!!! - livingwithloulou.com
Watering is not as easy as it appears….. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Mama urges anyone interested in how our democrocy began to watch this fascinating short film by Heather Cox Richardson that is done so well and informs us of our possibly forgotten the resitance to a dictator king that marked the beginning of freedom and justic for […]
Saturday Sanity - livingwithloulou.com
🌺🌺🌺 We are being political today because our government is trying to remove 4% of our population because they are immigrants. What the hell does he think HE and his family are? Abrego Garcia has finally been returned fron the San Salvador prison to which he was illegally sent by the Trump administration. “In […]
Friday Fills - livingwithloulou.com
MAMA–when are we PLANTING??? It’s getting late in the season. 1. My plans for June include __helping mama plant three new rosies and __uh,..watering them_. She lost three this year to maladies. Mama took over with these: 2. I would love to have __ several people I have never MET mentor me. 3. Most people […]
Rolicking Reunion - Thanks to All - livingwithloulou.com
Well, mama and papa were tickled to find that a large ever-changing group of 15 family members and their various partners can really live it up all together for 8 days without any glitches at all and many friendships enhanced and affecting. Sweet moments…. One of the highlights of their adventure was the incredibly beautiful […]
Wistful Wednesday - livingwithloulou.com
Topsy turvy, getting back home and in the groove again… The mortar-less walls of Cosa, a Roman ruin near Ansedonia. Well, lots to tell! A brilliant sun, lovely sea and several really good cooks were only part of mama’s family reunion near Ansedonia, Italy and there were ruins nearby from a Roman colony that used […]
Remember - livingwithloulou.com
“This nation will remain the land of the free only as long as it is home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis And there are many brave men and women gathering their forces to keep our nation free and democratic. It will be a huge endeavor and we laud those who are soldiering up to combat […]
Saturday Signals - livingwithloulou.com
Today I’m helping with the mulch…such fun! 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 These signals are important and we simply have to publish them. May the rest of your weekend be full of smiles amd kindness and sweet animal friends and maybe you’ll need a few extra olives in your martini after having seen the Big Beauitful Bummer. Love […]
Frets On Friday - livingwithloulou.com
Okay mama is better at these than I. I’m doing some sun bathing… 1. A day without __fear, innocent humans being harmed, and democracy’s destruction__is like a __world__without __TRUMP!!! 2. I find it rude when someone asks me __so how old are you anyway. Haha, it’s not so bad, just my own little secret, haha. […]
Thursday Thanks And Tickles - livingwithloulou.com
I am feeling so happy on my cloud for this little critter! We are enthralled today by this story of a little bear cub found crying in the woods with no mama. NO MAMA. Can you imagine? How thankful we are for the creative and caring staff who thought to dress as bears so that […]
Toosday - livingwithloulou.com
Our magic guru fixed this photo of mama’s garden that a friend took who is staying in the house and now you can see how the roses are doing. This is a stand-in for me, haha, because I’m somewhere in those rosies doing a bit of helpful “watering”… And now mama says she is too […]
Monday Maybe - livingwithloulou.com
Taking a little Monday stroll… 😻🌸🌸😻 Our spark is that you don’t miss your water ’til your well runs dry. And everyone knows what this means, we’re pretty sure. So perhaps many citizens of the USA will not see that their wells of human kindness and decency, along with their vanishing savings, reasonable grocery prices, […]