THIS AND THAT...............what's going on in Sue's World

Every now and again you run out of things to Blog about.....Come on.... You all

Know you have been there....

Ready to throw in the towel because you have just run out of things to say....

Oh....I didn't say Me...

I always have things to blog about....

As crazy as the post might be....

This is one of those posts......Let me begin with this beautiful Georgia Sky.....

Taken the other day while walking Boo.

The picture doesn't do this beautiful sky justice...

I really need a sun filter for the Nikon...

Okay....that was the lovely part of the post...

Now things go down hill from here...

I got an e-mail today announcing a
"Back To School Sale"
From 1-800-Pet-Meds?
Does the whole retail world need to cash in on kids going back to school....
I thought it was odd....


But Really on the Odd Front was this....
I was in TJMax yesterday when I saw a women dressed just like this women on the
Right....
She was in the clothing department buying skimpy little outfits....
Well....I'll assume she bought something....She had a whole armful of
Brittany Spear type get ups over her arm....
I wish someone was there to explain it to me....
She must not be "That" Modest at home..


On the way home I stopped at Publix to buy a Rutabaga....Oh Sue loves the rutabaga...
When I saw this sign....
Don't let the government tell me there is no inflation....
$6.99 for a 5 pound bag of Red Potatoes....
Are they Crazy!!

Okay...this is more like it....
This is why we Love Love Love the WalMart....

Speaking of food....let's talk cake....

This is a fabulous Bundt pan that daughter got me for

Mother's Day this year...

From Williams Sonoma ofcourse...

Isn't it fabulous!

This is how the cake turns out....

I had a few of the ladies over for lunch last week and made

a recipe Joyce gave me....

It's Blueberry Poundcake...

and it was delicious...

On t.v. last night....

On Showtime...

And replayed all week long..

"The Big C"

A wonderful new show starring Laura Linney....or as we like to call her

"Mrs. John Adams"

It's a funny....uplifting...quirky....show about a women with cancer....

and as it's described is a "women who diagnosis forces her to shake up her life and find hope...humor....and the light side of a dark situation"

Ms Linney is wonderful

and Oliver Platt is delightfully funny as her hypochondriac husband

who can't understand why his wife has kicked him out of the house....

She hasn't told anyone that she has stage 4 cancer...

the total opposite of depressing...

if you haven't seen it and you have Showtime I highly recommend it...

On the rental front....

City Island starring Andy Garcia was a wacky movie about a dysfunctional

family in New York....

If you enjoy watching a dysfunctional family but in a humorous way

go to Redbox and rent this movie....

It was recommended to me by another blogger and we really enjoyed it

So much so that we are planning on buying the DVD...

If your a Christopher Walken fan then this one won't disappoint....

Let me just say that he lives under the Boardwalk in

Atlantic City....

and he drives the "Sweet and Low" pink P.T. Cruiser

because if it's a free offer of any kind

He knows about it.......

My Kind of Guy....

Did anyone see Tom Selleck at the Emmy Awards Sunday night....

My Gosh the man looked like a Million Bucks....

I'm wondering if I got the Boss a White Tuxedo Jacket if he

would look atleast 1/8th. as good as Mr. Selleck....

I searched the internet for a photo

of Tom in said White Tuxedo to no avail....

where are the pictures??

This would be "Our Joyce"....

Miss Flour Power...

As most of you know Joyce isn't blogging anymore and we all miss her....

But she doesn't miss us because Miss Flour is off jet-setting to

Paris....

Her and Mr. Flour Power left for Paris last Friday evening for their

38th. Wedding Anniversary....

when I spoke to her Friday morning....

She was concerned about forgetting her four years of French from H.S.

in true Joyce fashion she had me laughing the entire time I had her on the phone....

She said all she remembers is....

"Where is the Pencil"......And...."Can I be your friend"......

I'm sure she will charm the French with her rendition of

"Bon Jour"

With a New York Accent....

And last but not least.....

For all you "Housewives of New Jersey" Fans.....

Theresa who still swears the Family Manse is not going into

Foreclosure....

is going to be mighty uncomfortable living in this Palace with no furniture....

A property auction is due for October 2nd....

Everything is being auctioned off including her and Spouse Joe's Wedding Bands....

For a refundable fee of $300.00 you can get into the house to bid on

all that tacky tacky furniture

including their bedding.....

But there is no foreclosure according to Theresa....

Oh Sure.....and the Boss... if dressed up in a White Tuxedo Jacket....... would resemble

even in the smallest way Tom Selleck.....

Keep Dreaming Theresa.....

MISS "B"....And Her New Designer Puppy.

Last I reported in on the puppy situation in Jersey I was showing off

The Grand Doodle Felix.....

Well that was then and this is now...

And this adorable face turned out to be.... in his past life....

A character out of a Steven King Novel...

Who knew such a cute puss could be one hair short of being Cudjo.....

Daughter and Family tried their best to pamper this pooch but to no avail....

He was on speed 24 hours a day....

And his playful puppy teething turned out to be "I want to bite your face off"

When your a Mom and you have a Toddler.....a puppy.....and you work from home

As a Lawyer...

when the puppy turns psychotic the puppy has to go....

So this Thursday Daughter.....Miss "B" and Felix took the 5 hour drive back to

The Farm in Virginia.....literally...

Back to the breeder who in *Her* past life must have been a

Scientist....

Because she's down there making designer dogs.....

Yup.....that's what they call them....

When you take two different breeds and you create an entirely new breed....

I hope she doesn't try to make a new breed by mixing a Pig with a

Pekingese

Breeder was cooperative with taking back Satan and daughter and B got to pick out

a new pup....

And here she is....

Miss Catherine Zeta Jones....

Or "Z" for short....

How cute is that face....

"Z" is a

"Cavanese"

That would be part Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and part Havanese.....

Daughter just keeps telling me that

Barbara Walters has a Havanese...

Just the perfect size for a Toddler....

Here she is in Miss B's bed...

Daughter reports that she's very sweet....doesn't bark.....appears to be house broken....

and as of today has not tried to bite any of the family or

terrorize Miss Kitty....

The Perfect Pet..

Plus every Pirate needs their own Designer Dog.....

HOUSE HUNTERS.......He Likes, She Likes.

If you have been reading this blog for any length of time

You know we love to look at houses.....

To be fair....We Really will be Buying another House......eventually....

In the meantime we drive Realtors up and down the Eastern Seaboard crazy showing us

potential properties.....

As I have said before....

We are "Professional House Hunters"...

You can read about our previous exploits......Here.

We usually look in and around the Jersey Shore....

But when we recently saw that prices right here in town were dropping like a rock

And we do have rock bottom low taxes...

Well.....we thought we would take a look...

Focusing on a particular Sub-Division that we have loved since it was built around 2000

We set up an appointment with a Realtor....

She showed us Three homes....Just like the Real House Hunters....

The third house....although on a lake......Was something short of horrible....

Here are the other two....

See you if you can guess which one I loved and which one was the

Boss' Favorite.....

This first home could pass for a Decorator's Showhouse....

A five Bedroom......Four and a Half Bath

The house itself is set on a Street that goes up a Mountain

With views all the way out to Alabama....

Most of the home was done in the color you see here.....A gorgeous Plum.

even the Oriental Carpets were Plum.

Monograms were everywhere...

Plum leather seats on the Dining Room chairs...

The ceiling was painted to look like leather.

The drapes were "puddled" like there was a flood....

The Breakfast Room....



The Living Room....with marble Fireplace surround

The Master Bedroom on the ground floor....
More Plum area rugs...

I had to take a picture of all these beautiful pillows....
I was Smitten...

Exercise room in the lower level....

At the Entrance to the Lower level Family Room.....

Outside the Entrance to the Family Room....

One half of the Lower Level family Room.....

The "Man" Half.

And the Female Half....

A beautiful Hutch.

There was also a full size home office on this level...

One of the Upstairs Bedrooms...

Very Shabby Chic.

They called this room the Second Master....

It did have a huge Master Bath...

Don't you just love the sleigh beds...

This was the sitting room off the second floor hallway....

Very girlie...

The room had these great bookcases....

And a fireplace...

The Realtor was not impressed....She thought the house was too

"Cluttered"....

Oh...did I mention there were hand paintings on alot of the walls...

How cute is this....

And last but not least the Laundry Room....

I did comment to the Realtor

"Who lives like this.....with the entire house color coordinated"....

It was very impressive....

And on the other side of the Street was house number 2.......

The entrance Hall with the Boss off in the distance.....

He was looking out the Family Room window at the drop down the side of the

Mountain....

This house was vacant...

So no Eye Candy...

The first floor

The Kitchen and Family Room....

Nice wide hardwoods throughout the first floor and all the staircases....

Yes....there were tons of staircases...

Looking into the Kitchen.....

That double oven would have to go....

And it had outdated counter tops....

A plus were two huge pantries..

Looking into the Dining Room from the Kitchen/Family Room....

There is a nice size deck off this room with a cathedral ceiling and multiple ceiling fans.......

The view from one of the decks....it was overcast that day....

On a clear day you can see Stone Mountain....

A Famous Georgia tourist destination...

Looking down from the Master Bedroom deck....the pool is

balanced on the side of the mountain....

The "Keeping Room".....off the Kitchen...

Somebody took the fireplace surround with them??

Hall Half Bath on the main level....

With Antique Oak vanity...

The entire house.....all 8,000 sq. feet had different

Antique doors on each of the Rooms...

A child's Room...

not just a window seat with a view...

but they made it large enough to house a twin size bed.....
The room was huge....

You could fit six twin beds in it....

The sitting room off the Master Bedroom...

The Lower level....

with another bedroom off to the left....

and a Screening Room up some stairs to the right....

The Boss was amazed at how that double deck on the left is being held up with just a few

wooden posts....

The pool is heated and has an attached spa on the other side of the stone wall...

Okay....So that's our House Hunters Tour....

Can you figure out which one I like and which house the Boss

likes....

I'll give you a clue....

It's in the photographs....

And for my Atlanta Area Blogging Friends....

Blogger Lynn over at

House and Garden Boutique

in Woodstock

is having Free decorating classes coming this fall....

You can go to her Blog site and see the classes and the schedule to sign up.....

Space is limited to sign up soon....

Lynn is also offering up a discount on her beautiful merchandise the day of the classes...