I love being outside and doing yard work. I have planted (with help from my dad) most of the landscaping at most of the houses we’ve lived in. I live to be outside – on a warm sunny day. Some of you have heard that I stepped in two hornet’s nests in two weeks, and…
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How many of you are familiar with “The Five Love Languages” books by Gary Chapman? I highly recommend them. The quick info goes like this, everyone has a love language… Words of Affirmation Quality Time Receiving Gifts Acts of Service Physical Touch Do you know yours? Mine is Physical Touch – grin. The idea being,…
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I wrote this last year, and never “published” it. Our son is now home and ran for cover last night when someone set off some sort of sky-rocket fireworks. It caught him by surprise and he did what he was trained to do. Sigh. I’m publishing this – not so much for the Civil War…
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Short and sweet this week, but packed with information! As you may have heard, my daughter-in-law and grandkids were in a car accident on Memorial Day weekend. Nobody had any major injuries. The kids seem fine. So let me say now… “IF YOU HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN WHO BELONG IN A CAR SEAT – USE IT!” …
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Oh, the itching! Don’t scratch it, it will make it worse. I know but… the itching! Don’t scratch it. Oh, even just lightly touching it feels so nice. Don’t scratch it. I know, I know. Don’t scratch it. ARGH it itches! Scratch, scratch, scratch. Sigh, I shouldn’t have done that. This is the conversation going…
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I recently saw a comment, on FaceBook, about someone having bought a piece of history when the Smithsonian was having a sale back in the 1970’s. I thought, “How terrible that the Smithsonian would sell its historical items.” I then recalled reading an article about the abundance of items they actually have and how much…
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