Browsing All posts tagged under »mishaps«

Trading Spaces

September 14, 2010

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My good friend Jean is in love with Prague (as in The Czech Republic).  She wanted to go for an extended visit of one month and had a brilliant idea how to get free housing.  She registered her home in Florida on a site called “I’ll Live In Your House and You Can Live in […]

Wretched Technology Update

September 13, 2010

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Well, here we are, happily sailing through the 21st century and I am still doing battle with post-Industrial Revolution technology.  I wrote a post about this in reference to my husband going out of town and leaving me at the mercy of three remotes and other assorted bits and pieces of technology, all waiting for […]

Mayhem in the Air

August 9, 2010

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Only Daughter and her family arrived on Saturday from London, via British Airways. Before heading to the airport, Life in the Boomer Lane checked in with the BA website. She clicked the “Information” button in order to check if there were changes in the arrival time. The first option was “Cabin Crew Dispute.” The choices […]

Easy Rules for Baking Success

August 6, 2010

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LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake.  This will avoid the following when you are […]

On Safari in My Vegetable Garden

August 3, 2010

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I have never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it.  I assumed I was genetically unable to do so because for many generations in Eastern Europe, my family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the farming genes were sort of erased.  But I’ve […]

The Girl Who Strayed With Buyers

August 2, 2010

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If you’ve been in the real estate business as long as I have, you’ve probably accumulated a lot of fun experiences that, in retrospect, could have been used successfully in POW camps. I’ve locked myself out of houses, and once, another agent and I had to climb in through a high window to get in. […]

Smuggling Babies Across Borders

June 17, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane spent one memorable Thanksgiving in London with Beloved Daughter and her family. Her younger son/youngest child and Her Always Baby and his girlfriend joined them.  Her Always Baby and his girlfriend had been together over a year, but this was her first experience traveling with LBL’s family.  For part of their stay, they […]

Off to London in A Shopping Cart

June 1, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane is leaving for London in a week to celebrate the first birthday of First Grandchild.  On her last visit, she, along with Younger Son’s girlfriend, Artist Janelle, attempted to smuggle said grandchild across the border from France onto the Eurostar train that goes through the chunnel, in order to get […]

The Vegetable Garden Pt1

May 27, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane has never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it. She assumed that she was genetically unable to do so, because, for many generations in Eastern Europe, her family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the “farming genes” were […]

Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt2

May 23, 2010

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For those skeptics who might be thinking that my friend Susan’s poor results are because she hasn’t put enough of an effort into online dating, rest assured that she has been on most internet dating sites since the very first one (CaveMatch.com).  She has only excluded the ones that will result in the FBI confiscating […]