Category: Shorts
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Garage Sales
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have a hate/hate relationship with garage sales. I hate going to them and I hate having them. Yet, in nearly 50 years of marriage, and being raised by my mom, I have learned that garage sales are a necessary evil of modern life. This morning I’m sitting at my neighbor’s… 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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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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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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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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Sometimes You Just Got Nothin’
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re at my mom’s in Manitowoc again, and Friday morning rolled around much faster than I imagined this week. I’ve got several blog post ideas rolling around in my head, but none seemed to work for the short post this week. Usually I work under pressure, but this morning I just… Read more
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Change of Scenery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI love living at the beach but as I’ve said many times before, sometimes you’ve got to travel away from the paradise you live in to see people you love. That’s what happened this week. We’re spending time in the mountains with Randy’s siblings and their spouses. This is the view… Read more
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I Just Can’t Do It
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou know how it is when you neglect picking up little things around the house? You stop seeing them, these little things lying around that aren’t in their place because you left them in the last place you used them? One day you wake up and with new eyes see your home… Read more
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Yes, I’m Ready for Some Football
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast August I wrote a post titled Football, the Packers and a 955-Year Waiting List. You can read it by clicking on the link here. I love that the seasons don’t change much in Florida, but September is notable year in and year out because it’s the start of the football… Read more
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5 Days is Not Long Enough
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re wrapping up our visit this morning to the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri where we lived for 23 years. We flew in Monday morning and we’re flying out this morning, Friday. That’s just a hair over 96 hours to spend in a place we loved, with people we care about… Read more