Chloe’s 2nd Grade Field trip

Chloe is learning to journal.     January 21, 2008  “To day I wint on a feld trip at school to a farm.  Jessica was my parner.  It was fun going to the farm.   I hadn’t gon to a farm.   I guess my mom thot it was to messy.   It lookt asom.  The techer said how every [...]

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Chloe’s Lesson

Chloe, poked her finger with the point of a knife while cutting carrots with her mother.    At first she just called out for a Band-Aid as she passed my office on the way to the bathroom, but that was before she had seen the wound.    It wasn’t a long cut, but it did go straight [...]

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A Good Laugh

I’m usually the last one to read the funny stuff on the internet … so probably you have all read this hysterical story about the man who bought his wife a stun gun for their anniversary.    It made me laugh until tears were running down my cheeks.     Although Lynn and I have each done our [...]

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Honey’s Holiday Blues

Poor Honey.   He has a Holiday today and it has turned into a “Hauler Day”; meaning “Haul’er Stuff Day” while I clean and sort.    Maybe that’s why he’s waiting another year before he retires.   There would be too many Hauler Days in a row.       I feel sorry for him since he’s is the only one [...]

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Talk’s Cheap … Unless It’s About Exercise

So Lynn and I have this membership at the gym and we haven’t been using it … but we want to use it so we keep on paying for it.   Once you quit paying for it you lose your membership and if you want to go back you have to sign up again with a [...]

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Feeling Like The Little Red Hen Tonight

Holy Macaroni I did a lot of hard, manual labor today!    And it feels good … particularly because I did it to help people who are down on their luck all over the world.     I went to the cannery.   It is a great feeling knowing I did a little bit to help.      What I really [...]

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Grandpa Aberquacky’s Invention

Grandma Henke’s Christmas Story for the Grandkids 2006 Grandma Aberquacky was a little concerned as she watched the leaves change colors and begin to fall off the trees this particular year. It was time to be shutting up the house and sheds and getting things tightened down for winter before their long trip to the [...]

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Important Fix-It Tools

Well, here I am, clicking away on a wimpy little black keyboard Lynn had down in the basement.   You’d think I’d listen to myself preach to the grandkids about not having a drink next to the computer, wouldn’t you?   I miss my nice split keyboard that had the perfect touch.    I wish I hadn’t shared [...]

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I H`ate When This H`appens

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Sunday Night Rambling …

Alice was telling how she felt last week when she had a day without electricity … “with nothing else to do, we eyed our office and computers wistfully”.      Can you imagine how hard it would be to have computers and Internet taken away permanently?   Ewwwwwww.     Without email and instant messenger how could we “connect to [...]

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