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Family

Getting Around to Stuff, Some, Twenty Years in the Making

Check it out, I finally changed up my banner picture, made it a little more seasonal. I usually get that changed more regularly but I haven’t been doing much “regularly”, I still have tulips on my lap top screen. I like change, I feed on change, but this last year was so chalk a block … Continue reading »

Categories: Dirt, Family, Flowers, Garden Methods | 7 Comments

Up In The Middle of the Night

This use to be typical of me but not for a long while now. So I don’t really know what to do with myself. I could do all my Ol‘ Befana baking but since my girls aren’t little any more no need to do that in the middle of the night. It would require me … Continue reading »

Categories: Family, God the Father Son and Holy Spirit, Homemaking, Surviving the Dark and Rain | 8 Comments

Bits of the First of Christmas

Dirt and Anna work on the lights ..This is where I left you Dear Reader, just before our Christmas tree decorating night. Sorry if the break bothered you, but it was a tough and quiet week before Christmas and not looking any better, if you want the details on why Dirt and I are not … Continue reading »

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Ice Capades 2009

Before a person can adequately skate, frozen frog bodies must be removed from the ice. If only I had a recording of Bet telling about finding the frozen frog on her first skate, then thinking she would go back and get him out and bring him to show me, only to go back to where … Continue reading »

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The Bedroom Story, Part One

Well, here’s the hole that started it all. It all began with the bed actually, but right now it is just a big brown uninteresting box. So the hole will get top billing for now. The hole and the termites that ate the hole, nice square job they did eh? (That was really Dirt’s handi-work.) … Continue reading »

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Where Is My Camera?!

I cannot seem to unzip my camera case, get the poor little thing out and use it. Two amazing weekends have gone by,now almost three and nothin’, well picture wize anywho. Weekend before last we were over east of the mountains in some of my favorite spots on the earth (I don’t get around much … Continue reading »

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Wow

I’ve been going in and out all day listening to the different retellings and rebroadcastings of the Lunar Landing. It is so amazing that we, man, did that with the limited tools that we had at the time. The girls, while they were around have been getting an earful that is for sure. So the … Continue reading »

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Fly Me to The Moon

Two weeks ago I came up with a great idea to have a party for the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing! Man, two weeks goes by fast! Having not realized that days were actually passing, I got to Saturday and said, “Aw Sacagewea.” I was going to have homemade moon pies for desert and … Continue reading »

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A Flag On the Ceiling and a Promise Kept

I made a promise a moment ago to a new friend, A_Joyful_Chaos, (a blog well worth the read for sure) that I would attend to an award she bestowed upon me over a week ago. And even though the pumpkin patch is growing hotter by the moment I am going to take care of this … Continue reading »

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Spring Has Nearly Ended

The end of spring is upon us and today Summer Camp at Vicktory Farm and Gardens begins with Flag Day.But Today’s_Flower selection is the Blue Flag’s cousin, Iris Germanica, Bearded Iris. Iris Germanica is one of my all time favorite flowers. And particularly the incredibly fragrant common purple ones. I cannot imagine living in a … Continue reading »

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