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For the past few years here on Growing Bolder my friend "Bernie" has been posting on her Blog little ditty's that I thought were hilarious and amazing. I would keep telling her...you have got to write a book every time I would read one of her stories.Well....guess what? Her first book has just been published and released this week. It is titled...The Nun and the Gardener. I can't wait to read...

The Flowbee is a device you connect to your vacuum cleaner. It cuts your hair and sucks it into the vacuum. This was really a great invention. About a year ago I bought one on EBAY and love it. It has little spacers to attach that determines how long or short your hair will be. I usually use it to cut the top and sides of my hair and let my friend use the clippers to cut the back and blend...

On Saturday I headed for Newberry, SC to see Brenda Lee at the Newberry Opera House. I left home around 8:30 a.m. and about 30 miles down the road I was going over, in my head, the things I had packed. I don't know why I do this, but I do. Well, I realized I had forgot the most important thing...My CAMERA. I panicked. Then I thought, I'll just stop at Wal-Mart and get me another digital...

I just got my new stove delivered today. It will probably take me a month to figure it out. Kinda like my radio in my car. I need to get the book out every time I need to set something on it. I got one of the new Electrolux ranges with the glass top. It is all digital touch controls. And looks like the controls in the cockpit of a 747 with all the lights. When you first see it you wonder...

Recently while flitting around the internet I came across an article with photos of "celebrities" that had facelifts. I made my mind up right quick that I would not be having any of that done to me. I don't know what they're seeing when they look in the mirror, but apparently it isn't what I saw. Everyone gasped at Michael Jackson's cosmetic surgery, why are they not gasping at others? Well,...

Recently my husband thought it would be a good idea to clean out the storage room in the basement because he said he couldn't hardly walk around in it. Well, my thinking was...It IS a storage room. That is what you are suppose to do. Store things there. First thing we did was move a lot of it out so he could put up shelving. That done, we started going through boxes one at a time. We had...

For the past year my husband has been on pills for his cancer. He takes them for 21 days and then off a week and once a week he takes steriod pills. We have been paying $189 a month for the 21 pills. May 31 he turns 65, so on May 1 he went on Medicare. I ordered the new refill for the pills and since the price is $7000 we have to pay $4000 up front and then a percentage each month which will...

I'm constantly amazed at the Internet world. You never know who you will have contact with. Never did I imagine I would be talking to Martha Stewart on the phone. I follow Martha on Twitter. Today she had a message that read...you can call me RIGHT NOW! I am LIVE on Sirius/XM until 5:00PM EST answering YOUR questions. So I did. Next thing I know I'm talking to Martha herself. I was...

After nearly 3 years of not being able to attend Fan Fair, now called CMA Fest, I got to attend this year. I had so much fun I thought I'd share a few moments from my trip with my friends here on GB. I got to see several of the new country artists this year mixed with a few veterans and legends. The new artists: Bucky Covington, Chuck Wicks, Carrie Underwood, Jason Michael Carroll, Josh...

This past weekend I attended the Western Film Festival in Winston-Salem, NC. I was surprised to hear that people came from as far away as Canada to attend. Apparently there are several festivals around the US and people travel around to all of them. This was my first. I had never heard of them until I heard that country singer Donna Fargo would be there receiving the Ernest Tubb Memorial...