Suzanne Davis

Barking up a new set of standards

When my husband, Mick, and I got off the employment road at the retirement exit, we were confident that we could everafter live by the mantra of the petulant 2-year-old, “You’re not the boss of me!”

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Suzanne Davis

About Suzanne Davis

Suzanne Davis writes the Greetings from Old People Camp column for The Tribune. After teaching in San Luis Obispo County for 27 years, she is now happily retired. She lives in the South County with her husband and their three dogs.

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    Time for a little gardening

    Ah, springtime — when the green thumbs amongst us conjure up blissful images of bountiful summer harvests. We don our gnarly sun hats, amend last year’s neglected garden plots and make our first foray to the local nursery. The purists buy seeds to nurture, and the rest of us wimps buy...

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    Kids say the darnedest things

    Against the advice of my retired friends, I’ve started substitute teaching a bit — a very little bit. I recently turned down a two-day job for someone I adore. Between you and me, it just sounded like too much of a commitment for a person as retired as I.

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    A trip to campers’ paradise

    Campgrounds and RV parks are the topic of discussion today, so if you are a “room service only” person, you might want to skip this one. Or then again, you can keep reading and chortle over the fact that you’re not me, and consequently too cheap to stay in hotels.

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    Give me the crawfish and hold the tobacco juice, please

    My husband and I recently returned from a cross-country trip that included Louisiana, and just in case you’ve been dreaming in Cajun, I thought I’d pass along these tourist tips.

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    Who’s washing the sheets?

    Did you see the recent Tribune article about the Russian/European mock trip to Mars? With a $100,000 teaser, they got seven men to volunteer to spend 520 days isolated in what looked to me like a giant, sparsely furnished Pringles can.

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    Better watch out, Santa is out there

    There are an incredible number of holiday activities around the county this year, and the best part is that a whole bunch of them are free.

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    Food for thought

    ‘After your parents leave, let’s start changing our lives” — two twenty-something women, sotto voce, over breakfast at Two Cats Cafe, Bar Harbor, Maine. What looked to be dad and brother had stepped out to use the facilities, and just like that, metamorphosis over blueberry...

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    Doggie bags and life in the big city

    My son and daughter-in-law were out visiting from New York recently, and Mick, the rock-androller and I, got a kick out of hearing about their new dog, Annabel.

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    Go ahead, Mr. Hendrix

    I had one of those “life is good” moments the other day on the way home from a Sunday afternoon concert in the Arroyo Grande Village.

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    Eat your heart out, Rachael Ray!

    Recently I experienced one of those long-in-the-tooth moments — another of the more frequently occurring signs that I’ve crested the hill; an indication that, even though I may not be in the September of my years, it’s definitely very late August.

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