Brrrrrrrrrr

For the first 32 years of my life I had wintery winters … the kind where it is bitter cold and there is snow on the ground … where you see your breath and don’t go outside without coat, boots, gloves, and a hat.    When that was all I knew I liked it.    It couldn’t [...]

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Sitting on Life’s Front Row

Since I got here Tuesday to see my daughter and her new little baby boy I have been reminiscent; remembering clear back to when I was a little girl playing with dolls and pretending I was a Momma.    Seeing my sons and daughters with their babies and families is mind boggling.    This year particularly has [...]

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On My Way To Washington

What a relief!     Little baby grandson has arrived!    His mother has been in hard labor since way early this morning … I think it amounted to 14 hours.     Throughout the day they were almost to C-Section but she really wanted him natural and finally he is here safe and sound.    He was big … nine-ish [...]

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Random Stuff Because Kati says so

I have two grand daughters that  had birthdays in November … Mikayla and Kaitlyn.    I wonder if they have any idea how much I love them?     They won’t know until they have grand daughters of their own.   Black Friday.   Bah Humbug on that!.    Old fuddy duddy that I am. Hubby ate a whole pie on Thanksgiving [...]

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Sleep Apnea Isn’t Romantic

There’s nothing quite as romantic looking as Lynn and I when we go to bed.     We both have sleep apnea.     That means when we go to bed we look like this.    It helps us breathe in the night, which comes in real handy if you want to wake up in the morning, but it is [...]

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Lady Fresca Stole My Heart

Technorati Tags: Bichon Frise, Grooming a Bichon at Home   This is my pretty little Lady Fresca.    I have just given her a haircut and if I do say so myself it’s not a bad job for an amateur.  Almost every time I call her she sticks her little pink tongue out at me!   Seriously!    [...]

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How To Make Your Own ugly, expensive christmas decorations

I wanted to do something different in the living room this year for Christmas so I got this clever brainy idea to wrap all the pictures hanging on the walls in the living room in Christmas wrapping paper with big bows.         Then I decided to wrap the two 7 foot high book cases that are on [...]

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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … and I love it!   I don’t love the commercialism that tries to spoil it, but I love everything else.   A couple of weeks ago I found I was kind of dreading the whole holiday scene and couldn’t figure out why.    Just thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas filled [...]

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Thankful for my bloggin’ buddies

I spend so much time reading my favorite blogs I scarcely have time to read the news anymore!     It’s kind of been like a snowball going down the hill that picks up speed and snow with every turn.    There are so many witty, fun people out there in cyber land.     For someone like me, who [...]

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Spell Check! Hooray!

I have been running spell check on my novel … Holy cow what would I do without spell check?    I think the reason I’ve put off writing it for so long is simply for spell check and erase and cut.    When I think of all the papers I wrote in school using the old typewriter [...]

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