Sunny Shores

@SunnyShores (201)

Boone, North Carolina

Joined myLot 9 years ago

MyLot - Where I'll tell my story - from then to now - frank, raw, candid - doubt if you dare, yet be aware - this is the America I know.

Sunny Shores's Discussions

Sun Tea

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 24 Feb 17

A perfect day for making good old fashioned sun tea. Easy enough to do with a gallon jug of water & a proper tea bag - you're just a few sunny hours away from enjoying crisp tea - with or without sugar. As kids - I think grandma...

tea

southern style

sunny afternoons

traditions of childhood

happy

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Festival Season is well underway in Phetchaburi Thailand

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 3 Feb 17

From Chinese New Year until SongKran (Thai New Year) there is a constant maze & buzz of festivals around the temples of Thailand. In Phetchaburi, the festival season has the entire city in a merry mood - ready to dance to a beat...

thailand

festivals

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Cornbread & Mutton Gravy ^_^

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 29 Dec 16

Well, ok - there's no mutton gravy - however there is a big ole pot of collard greens on the stove top. The leaves have been cooked nice & tender. And - a successful batch of cornbread in my newly re-seasoned iron skillet from my...

grandmas iron skillet

cooking

heritage

memories

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David's Tree

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 28 Dec 16

One of my dear friends planted this tree when he was just 8 years old. Now it's a grand tree with wide reaching branches & a strong stout trunk. My BFF & I were trying to decide what kind of tree it is - maple? oak? it can be...

friendship

tree

platonic love

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CooCoo for Coconuts ^_^

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 27 Dec 16

And here is the Coconut tree! Just look at those huge coconuts ready to fall to the ground & offer up sweet nourishing milk - YUM fresh from the tree! That is if team monkey doesn't get them first! LOL That coconut tree drew me...

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Flowers from Home

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 27 Dec 16

There's nothing like home - and I know that for certain as both my homes are so different from each other. My little house in Thailand has the makings of a really nice garden - only I've not been there for the cultivation in 9...

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Cold Grey Carolina Mornings

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 24 Dec 16

Perfect days to enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee with a side treat of Butterscotch Clusters made by the kind & loving hands of my BFF. I watch for thin rays of dawn to shimmer through the dark grey clouds that hover over Coal...

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Holiday Sweets & My Sugar Addiction _ YIKES

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 24 Dec 16

The reverse culture shock of coming home - has been complicated by a resurgence of my old sugar addiction. After having lived in various Asian countries for the past 12 years - I had set down (for the most part) my addiction to...

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Got Grits?

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 23 Dec 16

I adore grits! Yes - those tiny bits of corn that have been milled down to a fine course powder and boiled in hot flavored water - ready to eat in minutes and sticks to your ribs! I remember when I was in High School - way back...

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Listen to me

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 22 Dec 16

Do you ever wonder how much people are really listening to what you have to say. Do they fully comprehend the impact of your words - do they consider their own perspective in relation to yours - do they communicate those thoughts...

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Sunrise in the Carolinas

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 21 Dec 16

This is what greeted me a few mornings ago. I've just arrived into my new home - just a hop skip & a jump from Coal Mountain - (the Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman movie) and wow! The mountains don't give a spectacular sunrise/sunset...

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Mercury Retrograde Dec 19-Jan 8, 2017

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 21 Dec 16

Mercury retrogrades - often marked by a vulnerability for misunderstandings & miscommunication - does not have to be a time of snags & strife for your lifestyle. Mercury retrogrades can give us time to re-assess where we are going...

Anonymous Commandeers PowerBall Lotto & offers to Give Each American 4.33 million

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 12 Jan 16

Ha! I wish! But seriously think about it ~ what if, instead of giving all that money to one person - the lottery winner, we just evenly divided among us all? I got the idea from a meme I saw on Facebook - making the suggestion...

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Do You Belive in Tarot Readings?

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 10 Jan 16

I'm interested to know - what do you think about Tarot Readings? I don't want to explain too much as to what exactly a Tarot Reading is, as I'd like your off the cuff responses. I'm interested to know also - why you think the way...

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XP expired - What One Month W/O Tech Taught Me

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 16 Dec 15

Oyie! I am the world's worst about keeping my techy gadgets current. Partly it's the price - newer items are always more expensive & newer models aren't always packed with enough innovative features to warrant the price! So.......

microsoft

upgrades

headaches

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Danger Junkies Smuggle Heineken Disguised as Pepsi into Saudi Arabia

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 14 Nov 15

How far would you go for a drink? And is it the drink you really want - or the thrills & excitement of the covert nature of the pastime? That's a really good self-reflection question to ask one's self - especially if one has...

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Teacher Banned for Tarot on Halloween? WHAT?

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 13 Nov 15

There's a high school art teacher in hot water for having brought a deck of tarot cards into the classroom on Halloween in Colorado today. The newscast video I saw showed that she has been removed from the classroom pending an...

tarot schoolconduct parenting socialnorms

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buck up or bust - missing a nano day! (5!)

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 9 Nov 15

Are you a NaNo nerd? It's an online community that has some grassroots org that get together in the month of November - with the express goal of getting that novel out - by writing 50,000 words before Nov 30. I was really...

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Detoxing from a Centipede bite - Yikes!

Sunny Shores @SunnyShores (201) • Boone, North Carolina 9 Nov 15

I'm currently in day 5 of recovery from a nasty centipede bite. It was about 8 inches long, it's size & age making it's venom more toxic than normal. It also didn't help that the location of the bite was on my torso, near my...

insect bites

centipede

first aid awareness

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