Month: October 2023
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Peace Be With You
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere in Southwest Florida it’s getting to be that time of the year when the temperature drops about 10 degrees to perfect, and there’s a light breeze blowing off the gulf. The water is still warm enough to swim without artificial heat and it’s just purely amazing to be outside most of… Read more
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Alexa, The Snitch
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen we closed on our house in July 2021, our realtor gifted us with a Ring doorbell and an Amazon Echo Show 5. The Ring doorbell lives, camera facing down, in a drawer except when we’re away from home where we set it up to watch both the front door and… Read more
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What Matters Most (Redux)
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I sat down last week to write my Friday short post, I’d just been profoundly affected by a couple of paragraphs I read in a novel I had a hard time putting down. Tears began leaking and my throat closed up a little as I read them again and again. I… Read more
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Black-Eyed Susans
Reading Time: 2 minutesI wrote about the summer Randy and I met in 1969. You’ll find that post here in case you want to read it again, or maybe read it for the first time. One thing I didn’t put in that post was where Randy first kissed me. He was a smoker back then.… Read more
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Winners and the Games They Play
Reading Time: 5 minutesI come from a family of game players. As a child some of my best memories are those of the fun times we spent playing board games and cards. On summer vacation every year we went to a cottage on a lake in Northern Wisconsin. We spent long hours swimming and skiing… Read more
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My Guilty Pleasure
Reading Time: 2 minutesI often tell people I only turn on the TV in our house for Packer games. That’s been true for the whole two years and a couple of months we’ve lived here. I can no longer say that. Since it premiered in June 2005, I’ve claimed Dancing With the Stars as my… Read more
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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Reading Time: 4 minutesRemember the old A-Team television show? Hannibal’s line at the end of each show was “I love it when a plan comes together.” I really enjoyed The A-Team for several reasons. First, way back when we lived in Sacramento we visited a Los Angeles theme park where there was an A-Team exhibit.… Read more
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Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy and I arrived home today after being on the road for one day shy of 3 weeks. You know from my previous posts that we have, in the past, really loved road tripping. Yesterday, after a particularly brutal driving segment of the trip (Franklin, TN to Lake City, FL) Randy said… Read more
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Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy brother Denny called me a few days before we arrived at my mom’s. He said he met a guy in Manitowoc who had a 77-foot (end to end) sailboat moored in front of the Cobia Submarine Maritime Museum on the river. He was walking along the riverfront one day the week… Read more