Month: December 2022
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The Promise of a New Year
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy absolutely favorite holiday, hands down, is New Year’s Day. Every year when I flip the calendar to January, after the Thanksgiving to Christmas holiday season is behind us, I get super excited about new beginnings. I need to remind myself that no matter what day the calendar proclaims, every morning… Read more
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Sugar Coma
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere it is a couple of days after Christmas and I am seriously craving something green to eat. I don’t mean green as in donuts or cookies with green colored frosting. I mean green as in cucumbers or salad or something (anything) that will give me a dose of vitamins and nutrients.… Read more
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The Pool is Heated
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe rest of the country is parked in the deep freeze. I’ve talked to friends today in places that aren’t Florida and they all have temperatures in the negative number, as in below 0. And then, adding the wind chill, well…. In this location (Loon Lake, WA) the forecast was -2.… Read more
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Living Like Millionaires
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe just got back from spending a week at a marvelous beach house on St George Island. It was everything I’d expected a week at the beach would be. But it was more than that. We’d never heard of St George Island when some dear friends invited us to spend some time… Read more
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Fire and Water
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhy is it that we can stare at campfires and beach waves for long periods of time? Here’s a video link to a video I took one day on the beach. What’s the fascination? Why are people compelled to sit around a campfire or on a beach for hours? Why do… Read more
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‘Tis the Week Before Christmas….
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Tis the week before Christmas When all through the house Not much thought has been given To anything regarding the holiday… Yes, I know it doesn’t rhyme. Which is exactly how Christmas is going to overtake us this year without making much of an impression. In my defense, we’ve been on the… Read more
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Happy Pappy’s Glowing Balls
Reading Time: 2 minutesI laugh ever time I think about Happy Pappy’s Glowing Balls. You KNOW where my mind goes! That’s why (from someone who holds a degree in Marketing) the name of this business is so brilliant. Unforgettable. Last year, Kristine and Gary gifted us with two glowing balls like those in the photo,… Read more
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Life’s Great Joy
Reading Time: 4 minutesNow that we’re free to travel whenever and wherever and however we want (barring financial considerations, of course) I find myself not caring to leave the home we’ve created in the paradise of Florida. With one exception: to visit friends and family that mean a lot of me and Randy. We’ve been… Read more
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RIP
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI heard the shocking news a couple of days ago that one of my best friends from the Air Force died of a heart attack in October. She was younger than I and much more active. Apparently it was a sudden and completely unexpected death. Carol was no longer married and… Read more