Monthly Archives: March 2009

What a diff a day can make

Posted on March 17, 2009 by K

This was yesterday: It was Levi’s birthday, and so Rachel decided that she would give him a present she could open herself: an afternoon’s ride.  So I ran down to the (farm, pasture, stable???) to tune up my Sophie—who put … Continue reading →

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Just a recommendation

Posted on March 15, 2009 by K

Here is a piece of beautiful writing, and interesting perspective tweaking.  I found it a useful pleasure.

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Whoop-de-do!

Posted on March 14, 2009 by K

Rachel came over today to hash over an idiotic book that had driven her nuts (which was fun – and she came on her pink bike.  Wait.  Red?). Before too long, we had stumbled into an entirely accidental idyll of … Continue reading →

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There may be alien cultures who (that?) . . .

Posted on March 13, 2009 by K

. . . would not find this child irresistible.   On another planet.  Far, far away from me. Grandson the second.  And friend. Straight out of the tub.  No gel. Cute or what?

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All tractor, all the time—

Posted on March 13, 2009 by K

John Deere and my GM (good man, not general motor).  Finessing the box scraper.  Kind of like trying to fix a watch with a hammer. Jetta.  Impressed. GM doing other manly things with the tractor.  Did I tell you we … Continue reading →

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What’s that cloud’o dust risin’?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by K

Okay Scribe, and Dick—if you dare—pin down the allusion:  “. . . nor heck a fury like a woman scorned.”  Or, in today’s application: a fury like a feeding frenzy.  No.  Wait.  I mean “like a cleaning frenzy.”  Which fury … Continue reading →

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More women’s work –

Posted on March 11, 2009 by K

So the useful and charming Stan, the kibitzing neighbor who gets up in the middle of the night to do our water turn and who was kind and brave enough to come over and put the colt on long rein … Continue reading →

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Old Letters 2

Posted on March 9, 2009 by K

It’s a small pile of yellow, fragile letters.  One of them, from one of Nana’s suitors (written on Feb 5th, 1924) is deeply earnest: “Such a awful name but you’re a thief?! You stole my heart, and I feel miserable … Continue reading →

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Old letters 1

Posted on March 9, 2009 by K

I am a genealogist.  Well, a sort of lapsed one.  Like a person who isn’t shaking at the moment is a lapsed Malaria sufferer.  I suppose that someday I’m going to have to actually sit down and write about doing … Continue reading →

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Family

Posted on March 4, 2009 by K

When I was a kid, I had two sets of cousins—one set on my dad’s side, one on my mom’s. Except for one almost two year stint in Kansas City, we never lived anywhere close to our cousins. We were … Continue reading →

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