Regina Jacques

Log On To Your Home Online

I am writing this article today via my new little notebook computer! I'm so excited about it because it's just small enough to fit in my purse so I can take it anywhere with me, yet big enough to be able to type comfortably. You have to love modern tech... Read >

Just When You Least Expect It

After having a really long week, I was able to put the flying ant/termite damage to my home and air conditioning repair bills from this past week in the back of my head over the weekend and hang out by the pool with some friends. A very close friend of... Read >

Don't Shop Till You Drop

As I was reading at my computer a few days ago, a flying ant landed on the screen. I then saw another flying past me. Later that night, there were a few of them on my television screen and flying around the light. That was driving us crazy. Then the next ... Read >

Be All The Wiser

Florida and swimming pools go hand in hand. When we first moved into our house, our pool did not have an enclosure over it. Therefore, all the leaves from the big tree in the front dumped into it, and it was really hard to maintain. We put up an enclosure... Read >

Mental Health Awareness

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Some of us don't pay attention to mental disorders since many of us are not faced with these things all too often. We might only know about some of them through TV programs or movies we may have watched. One that come... Read >

Is Someone Being Deceptive?

We received a phone call from a friend last week. A couple that we've known for quite a while, Jerry and Elaine. Jerry was more Rich's buddy, and Elaine was "the wife". Well, Jerry called sounding very disturbed. We had not heard from them in months. He a... Read >

Know What's On YOUR Porch

It is a beautiful day here in central Florida. 88 degrees and breezy. It's the perfect day to go to Taylor Park and have a BBQ dinner. When we first moved to this area, this was the very first place I had ever seen a live alligator. I had heard several in... Read >

Lucky Moments

Everyone has somebody they look up to when they are a kid. I used to look up to my cousin Linda. She was absolutely gorgeous, and just a couple years older than I was. I recall wanting to be just like her. She lived outside of Chicago, and I grew up in MO... Read >

Don't Get Stuck

It was one of those weekends where I feel I am in need of another weekend to recover from the weekend I just had. I spent a lot of time in the sun yesterday and am feeling it today. Sad but true, vacationers get to the beach more than I do, and I live ver... Read >

Window Watching

It's a beautiful day after the rain today, and I wanted to open our windows to let some fresh air into our house, only to forget that our dog barks at every tiny little noise that comes in through those windows! Therefore, we rarely ever open a window un... Read >

Home Away From Home

Well, hopefully everybody had a nice holiday weekend. Back to work and the Monday blahs. Monday is always a crazy busy day for us, but luckily we have all of our taxes done and behind us. We had the joy of fixing our a/c thermostat this weekend, but had i... Read >

Party Time

Cinco de Mayo's ­­­soon approaching! Cinco de Mayo's Spanish for "Fifth of May," is a holiday in Mexico that has been celebrated mainly in the state of Puebla, and has limited recognition in other parts of Mexico. However, Cinco de Mayo is not treated ... Read >

Lost With Dementia

It'll soon be my Grandmother's birthday. She's going to be 97 this year! She's in a nursing home, and when family members visit her, she always tells them that she's going to go home, and sometimes forgets who they even are. It's absolutely heart breaking... Read >

To Protect The Innocent

As I told you in yesterday's story, my father retired from the Army in New York. He had been stationed there when I was simply a twinkle in my dad's eye. My three oldest brothers remember living there quite vividly. When asking my mother about living ther... Read >

Trouble in Texas

When I think of TX, I think about one of my favorite TV show, Cheaters. It seems though as if all the shows are done in TX. Texas is known as the "Lone Star State", and it is the 2nd biggest state in the U.S. in both area and population! I've never been t... Read >