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Just Breathe
Hearing from a grown grand child makes my day. Below the message I received from granddaughter Hannah (age 24) earlier this week: Hi Grandma! Just thought id pop in and say hi. I have been reading some...
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Challenges
My greatest challenge these days is trying to recover some of my lost homemaking skills. I’ve paid a price for spending most of my working life in outside jobs. The most rewarding work I have ever...
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Circulation
Cold and grey here today, but yesterday was sunny and windy…a good day to walk Johnny. He was ready to romp having spent prior day at the vet’s for his biennial teeth work. He lost one tiny tooth in...
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To do
Handpainted Cotton Yarn (Photo credit: sumptinelse) I’ve been off-line for a few days. Not to be outdone by my granddaughter Hannah, I have been struggling with a crochet project involving a shawl and...
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The Ides of April or why I lost my sense of humor
Finally, David has completed the tax forms. Today, he takes our checks in hand to the bank, writes one check to the IRS, and puts the packages (Federal plus check and State…VA owes us money) in the...
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A walk in the park
When I took my socks off Sunday evening, i found several red wheals on my left ankle. Thinking back I recalled sitting on a bench in the Bluemont Park “Master Gardener’s garden” next to a patch of...
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Slow and steady
Photo I took in French Alps, 1999 Getting my household in order for next week. List includes: 1/ David – make sure he eats and takes his meds. Kathy will be delivering meals to David. Lots of...
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Truly rewarding
I almost laughed as I watched my surgeon admiring his handiwork today, i.e., my new hip joint as revealed in an Xray. It is a beautiful bit of work, for sure, and so well done I am bound to end up in a...
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Crochet projects or how green can I be?
Are you fond of certain Internet companies and deal with them year after year? One of my favorites is The Yarn Market. I think it is located in Germany, however when I speak with someone in their...
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Frustration
I was wrong, you can’t fight City Hall. We received our third ‘adjusted’ water bill (with a late fee) and spoke with yet another person at the County offices, who was rude and said to David,”Are you...
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What goes around
As we are experiencing record cold. My plan was to spend the day reading. But nothing goes according to plan, does it? I managed to read another 5 percent of my new book, Saving Italy: The Race to...
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The case of the purloined check
No, this isn’t a case by Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Purloined Letter, written several years before Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes and, considered by many to be the the prototypical detective...
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Sunday thoughts big and little.
Except for walking hospital corridors, I got little exercise this past week. My lack led to the thought of getting outside today. But…can you believe it…another storm is headed our way. The rain...
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Rocks I have known – Part I
View from Blowing Rock, Wikipeda Grandma Lin wrote a post about rocks the other day, and unintentionally, perhaps, challenged her readers to do so ( a new kind of prompt). This got me to thinking...
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City life and the EPA
My son Richard We accomplished a lot yesterday. I use the term we loosely. What I mean is I paid several people to do a lot of work. As a result, our house was as busy as Grand central station. First...
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Saturday thoughts
Work on my Ancestry tree continues to engage me. I am now in the 1400s in England, and in very tenuous territory. I have thousands of ancestors this far back and they in turn have thousands of...
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Mind travel
The photo above is not a selfie, David took it. I have many photos of me taken by others….father, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands. I like some of them, but not all. I asked David to take the photo...
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Taking charge
My old dog Max with baby Clare, April 2012 Tired of my complaining, David told me I could do what I wanted around our house…sell it…whatever. So, I looked at available real estate in our area and...
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Good Orderly Direction
Antiue Mason Jars from wikipedia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4n4EVupxxQ Reading history, and now engaged in rediscovering the lives of those who went before me as I build my humongous family tree,...
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Tuesday Tidbits
Miniature Moth Orchids, blooming “With any luck at all, they’ll have a special line for seniors,” David chuckles as he leaves the house for the DMV. As usual he’s waited until the last day of the...
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