Author: Missy

When our grandson stayed with us for a week, we told him he could choose anything he wanted to do or anyplace he wanted to go. After spending an entire day on the internet, he finally came up with an idea. He told us he wanted to go to Riders in The Wind. I hadn’t […]

When we moved to The Villages, FL, all our neighbors were telling us we had to visit Gilded Matilda’s. I thought it had to be some kind of bar, if you thought about their name. My husband told me you can’t judge a book by its cover. I was talking to Angie, one of our […]

As you are walking into the Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History there is a thank you sign. It thanks people for visiting and supporting their cause. The Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History is open 361 days a year. There are more than 1000 animals from 137 species. […]

I had some college friends come home with me this spring. None of them had been to Sioux Falls before and I had kept telling them how nice it is. It was the start of spring vacation and neither of them had anywhere to go. When we got home, it was the middle of April, […]

She told me she didn’t think I would ever be happy. I moved to St. Petersburg, FL because I was tired of the cold and snow of the winter. I wanted to live where half my year wasn’t spent in pain and suffering, and I could never get warm enough. I read that even on […]

While we were visiting family in St. Petersburg, FL, I wanted to go see The Sunken Gardens. The Sunken Gardens is 4 acres of beautiful botanical gardens that is in the center of St. Petersburg, FL. The entire time we were in the Sunken Gardens, my husband was complaining. He complained about the heat and […]

I was anxious about the first snowfall My husband and I were both retired, and were looking for a nice place to move into. I no longer wanted to take care of a five bedroom, three bathroom home. The house was amazing when we had six kids living at home, but it was just he […]

I had never been to Pythian Home of Missouri, but I planned to go there some day. My sister was one of those people who loved a good ghost story, and she was visiting me. The minute school was over and she graduated high school, she told our mom she was spending the summer with […]

When I moved to South Bend, IN. I knew it was a great place to live. I moved to an area that was full of things for my kids to do, and where I knew they would be safe. I had been told that when it’s hot, go to Kennedy Water Playground. It was a […]

Living in South Bend, IN has more than just a nice place to live. It has museums, casinos, and other fun places to go. One thing I enjoyed was Thistleberry Farm. Every year, starting in mid-September, they had a corn maze. By the time Halloween came around, and they had their spooky hayrides, it got […]