Category: Shorts
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Venice, Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes Friday creeps up awfully fast around here. It’s been a busy week, full of activities. Yesterday one of my cousins and his lovely wife arrived for their first ever visit to any of our homes. Today we’re off to explore Venice, Florida’s downtown. When we were looking for a house… Read more
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Pure Escapism
Reading Time: 2 minutesI stumbled on an interesting book on the New Books shelf at the library last week. The interesting metallic cover caught my eye, but the thickness of the book, with the edge of the pages stained black was what really caused me to pick it up. The book itself was marketing genius. … Read more
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Hug Me Like You Mean It
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears ago an 18 year-old niece came to live with us. We loved her dearly but she and her divorced parents were at odds and she’d had a few rough years finishing high school. Randy and I both come from a family of huggers and it’s standard operating procedure to greet… Read more
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If You’re Waiting for a Sign…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you ever look for signs? Not road signs or street signs. You know, signs from God that something you’re thinking or doing is the right or wrong thing. Things that happen that you take as signs suggesting, confirming, or reinforcing something going on in your life, or showing you that… Read more
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Goodbye, Xenon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week we said goodbye to a good and faithful servant, our 2014 VW Passat TDI (diesel engine) who we named Xenon. She was the second diesel Passat we owned. In 2012 we bought a new one, silver, from the dealer in Springfield, Missouri. Randy was in love with the diesel engine… Read more
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In Anticipation of Leonid & Friends
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow night we, with two other couples, are adventuring down to the Seminole Casino Hotel in Immokalee, Florida to see a Russian Chicago Tribute Band. Of all the concerts we’ve been to in the past 20 years, this may be the one that excites me more than any other. My post… Read more
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Breaking Up With Sugar
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe all have relationships that definitely don’t enhance our lives. I’ve often said that if you are with someone who doesn’t bring out the best in you, that’s not a relationship you want to nurture. In fact, it’s emotionally healthy to minimize or sever those kinds of relationships. Yesterday I had… Read more
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How Many Cars Does a Retired Couple Need?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Randy and I moved to Florida we brought the 2 vehicles we had in Missouri with us. Randy’s HUGE Silverado HD long bed, club cab pick-up truck barely fit in the driveway, not to mention the garage. We did get it in there once. There were about 3 inches in both… Read more
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Shopping the Resale Stores
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe went shopping yesterday…thrift shopping. Or so we thought. A lot of the stores we went to did have old, second hand, used stuff. I was surprised, though, to see how not thriftily they were priced. Perhaps that’s a sign of the financial times we’re in. Perhaps it’s me not understanding the… Read more
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New Site Live!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLive! After several weeks of cutting and pasting, and a week of the sometimes hair pulling frustration of trying things that don’t work, 68andCounting.com is finally live on the new host. It’ll live here for at least the next three years. None of the comments from the old blog transferred over.… Read more