Month: November 2022
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North, Not Quite to Alaska
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the Thanksgiving holiday Randy and I decided to head north to visit family and friends. To be fair, it’s pretty much the only direction you can go by car for more than a couple hours from where we now live. Our first stop, Myrtle Beach, SC was a sweet little… Read more
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The Truth About Thanksgiving
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s no law that says you have to serve turkey on Thanksgiving Day. And there’s no evidence that turkeys were served at what is depicted as the first Thanksgiving Day when the pilgrims in New England sat down with the Wampanoag people in 1621. The Wampanoag brought deer and the pilgrims… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes That third shawl…. As I was knitting it, as the colors worked up, the greens reminded me of prairie fields, the tans of beach sand, the blues of oceans and skies, and the purple of mountains majesty. And it occurred to me, out of the blue, that I should name the… Read more
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I’m Losing My Tan
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s a first world problem, I know. It’s just that I love to hang out at the beach, and around the pool. It’s one of the main reasons we moved to Florida. And honestly, that nice toasty tan color does look good on me. It’s been effortless to maintain my… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 1)
Reading Time: 4 minutes I don’t remember when or how I learned to knit and crochet. I do remember enjoying both though and being fascinated by (as Randy describes) being able to turn one big, long string into so many different interesting, colorful, and useful things. This is not the actual afghan, but is similar.… Read more
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PTSD
Reading Time: 2 minutes Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You usually hear about that related to folks who’ve been in war and combat, or from those coming out of domestic violence situations. Recently though, I’ve seen people on Facebook and NextDoor who went through Hurricane Ian mentioning that they feel like they have a touch of… Read more
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Igor & Red Elvises
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last week, at 1 in the afternoon, in the middle of the week, a friend called and asked if we wanted to join her and her husband for dinner and a band at a restaurant downtown. Here’s a video link to their performance that night. Ah, the joy of being retired.… Read more
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Conquering Clutter
Reading Time: < 1 minute Years ago, before the tornado, I taught a class in the adult community education program called Conquering Clutter. It was very popular and I was pretty good at it. In fact, a tornado is the ultimate clutter conquerer but I don’t recommend it. This week, as I was putting the… Read more
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Real, Live Mermaids
Reading Time: 4 minutes My sister, Lisa, called a few weeks ago and wanted to plan a girl’s day trip to Weeki Wachee Springs State Park. She’d been there before and thought the mermaids were one of the coolest things she’d ever seen. So cool, apparently, that driving 219 miles and picking me up on… Read more