Month: February 2023
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I Have an Idea
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy and I were driving down to Naples this weekend to spend the day with sister Lisa, brother Denny (from Wisconsin) and their spouses, Jim and Marlene. As we often do, one of us said something that triggered a reminder of a bit of a song from our past. In this… Read more
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Assume!? Big Mistake.
Reading Time: < 1 minute consider myself a pretty smart cookie. But I got served a big helping of humility yesterday. Thankfully it was one of those bad news/good news things and I came out on the sunny side of a very stormy week, relearning a lesson I already knew, but obviously forgot to apply.… Read more
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Presidents on the Bucket List
Reading Time: 4 minutes During the Obama presidency, I watched (in horror) the country seemed to become more and more polarized by social and political division. I wondered if how I (and many of my friends and family) felt was anything like the mood of the people during the American Revolution. Because of my intense… Read more
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A Perfect Life
Reading Time: < 1 minute Allow me to wax philosophical for one minute. I am content, quietly happy and fully satisfied. I have enough. I am at peace, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I am happy to be alive and living in paradise every day. There is nothing I need or want that I don’t have… Read more
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You Can…But Should You?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I can crochet. In fact, it’s possible, and I’m skilled enough, to be able to crochet anything I can imagine. But just because I can doesn’t necessarily mean I should. I submit, as evidence, the following pictures. I’ve been thinking a lot about all the things in life that can, but,… Read more
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The Abecedarian With a Meldrop
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been reading a lot lately and find myself still looking up words whose meaning I don’t know or are used out of the context in which I know them. In doing that I’ve run across a few words lately that frankly, make me laugh. Take the title of the post.… Read more
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Groundcover or Weeds
Reading Time: 4 minutes When my best friend and sister-in-law Lynn comes down for her snowbird stint in Florida each winter she works long and hard on cleaning up our landscaping. The first year we moved into the house it was a huge job. This year it was more cleaning up and trimming from the… Read more
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Spilling Our Guts
Reading Time: < 1 minute <Big Sigh> Interior hurricane damage repair started yesterday. The poor house. A team of mold specialists came in and just started ripping the guts out of our master bedroom wing. There wasn’t a lot of mold, but there sure was a lot of water damage to the drywall on the… Read more