Category: Entertainment
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Avatar 2 3D Movie Review
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy best friend, Lynn (Randy’s sister) and I watched the first Avatar a few days ago to prepare us to see the sequel in 3D this week. Since it’s been 13 years between Avatar and Avatar 2, and because I’m not a movie buff, I remembered almost nothing of the first… 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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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 Changing Yarn (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutesThat 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 shawl… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 1)
Reading Time: 4 minutesI 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. Ours… Read more
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Igor & Red Elvises
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast 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. There’s… Read more
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Real, Live Mermaids
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy 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 the… Read more
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Good Old-Fashioned Paper Books
Reading Time: < 1 minuteXfinity (Comcast) is the major cable service in the area. In many places, 2+ weeks after Hurricane Ian, many people still don’t have cable service. Facebook and Next Door are flooded with people screaming about this. There are reports of residents chasing Xfinity linemen with baseball bats. Randy and I drove… Read more
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50 Years Fly By
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had lunch with a good friend of mine a few weeks ago. Though she’s a bit younger than I am, she and her husband just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. My 50th high school class reunion was last week. I got to thinking about how long 50 years really is and… Read more
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Branson and Oozing Talent
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I first visited Branson, Missouri about 25 years ago after we moved to Missouri. It’s a place we enjoy a lot, full of like-minded and age-related peeps. There’s an Ozarkland store there so I can say I actually worked in Branson for a tiny bit. Over the years, we’ve seen… Read more