Category Archives: Life As a Shared Adventure

Ginny said she likes pastels and light, but the Nordic scheme mentioned in yesterday’s post was too spartan. Maybe we should try English cottage? I told ChatGPT that, and hopefully if you click here you can read its full answer. … Continue reading →

Bub’s looking at mood boards did get Betty out of her doldrums. I looked up those three styles and I loved this picture ChatGPT showed as an example of mid-century modern, But the room was so light and airy because … Continue reading →

I asked ChatGPT what it would produce for a “Rock ‘n Roll diner” mood board. (Click on images for higher resolution.) It gave me this: And this for “dive bar.” Do you think that will shake Betty out of her … Continue reading →

I do love Bub. He is so calm and good-hearted. About Saturday’s get-together: The wife of the fellow who helped us after the first flash flood in 2011 said she would like to gather some pictures of what the the … Continue reading →

This post is going to be long. First Betty: Shug suggested Betty could use a designer. But that doesn’t necessarily mean a person. Kaitlin had good luck with ChatGPT, so I told it Betty was having trouble with colors for … Continue reading →

For some reason I thought of this as I woke up yesterday morning. Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the … Continue reading →

So will Betty get back to quilting and Bub to learning how to play pool? On a different topic: this following comic is correct. I would never have predicted what is going on right now. It boggles my mind. And … Continue reading →

Betty and Bub both seem happy. I’m afraid this Pearls Before Swine comic is way too true. May 16, 2026

Andy and I like white walls and ceilings. We’ve always lived in apartments, so we had no choice there — but we chose white for the inside of our house up in the mountains. We are no doubt in the … Continue reading →

I wish them luck. We spent a lot of time thinking about colors for our house up on the land, and we decided on this color scheme for the outside. The lighter color was for the walls, the terra cotta … Continue reading →