Month: December 2023
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Snow! Why We Moved to Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy days are really messed up. It’s Friday and it crept up on me as surprisingly as Tuesday did this week. I need a reset. I was the last one out of bed this morning. I walked into Lynn’s garden room where everyone else was sitting in recliners admiring this view.… Read more
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The Eating Season
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Christmas Day is Monday, and you’ve been traveling all week, Tuesday morning and the realization you need a new post to keep up with your self-imposed schedule creeps up on you awfully fast. We were putting some of the final touches on Christmas dinner (prime rib, twice baked potatoes, pop-overs, and… Read more
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More Manitowoc
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a city that’s never reached a population of even 35,000 people, Manitowoc sure has developed a world-wide reputation. If you missed my post on Tuesday about the Manitowoc Christmas connection, you can read that here. This week, on our way to Missouri, we checked into a hotel. Randy went to fill… Read more
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Shiny, Prickly, Christmas Memories
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not gonna lie. This year hasn’t seemed much like the Christmas season to me at all. And that’s just fine with me. Two days after Thanksgiving we went on the cruise to the Panama Canal. Surprisingly, when we started there was no Christmas on the ship at all. No decorations, no… Read more
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Our Crazy Upside Down World
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy and I got home from our cruise last week on Thursday, both with head colds. Mine was just barely starting but Randy’s was several days old so I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to get off scot-free. We both had dentist appointments scheduled for the following Monday so I cancelled… Read more
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Check One Off the Bucket List
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe bucket list cruise to the Panama Canal, so highly anticipated, is behind us. First, let me say that this 11-day cruise was very different, in a good way, from our first 4-day cruise experience in January 2023. You can read about that here. We liked the ship (Norwegian Joy) and the… Read more