Category Archives: Family

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~o:>Counting Down

note: I’m working on answering comments.  Have been up to my neck in storage boxes – Two days.  Two days to finish two years and four days’ service.  The mother, sitting in her corner of the couch, trying not to … Continue reading

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~o:> Day Trippin’: pt.2

The city, as it marches into the hills. Note the two completely different greens up there on the mountain: you can really see where the aspens end and the pine forest begins. Here we are in the city. We really … Continue reading

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~o:> Day Trippin’: pt. 1

So Rachel and I and the beautious Ms. K packed up our bags and headed into the mountains for a trip to OZ (home of the Emperor and His New Clothes). Park City started out a mere hundred or so … Continue reading

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And after that, a tail~:>

And a BIRD.  Or a FISH!—> <“K It looked better in the headline, though, darn it – I still think it looks like a  pert little bird. Here is the progress on the horse pattern I’m working on. I started … Continue reading

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Remembering

WW l Thanks Daddy Jim for putting your life on the line.  For wearing the uniform and saving the burning airplane and doing what you had to so that my kids could be free to choose.  I hope I have … Continue reading

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Week May 3: pt. 5

Notice: I actually sat down and answered comments.  I love the conversations we have, and apologize for having let them lag for so long. —–=0=—– The Saturday formerly known as: My Birthday This is how I spent it: privileged to … Continue reading

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May 3 week: pt. 4

Loses some of its punch when I spread one incredibly dense and intense week over a months’ telling. Short-line real-time muses: A.  Today was the first time I’ve been outside since October that it made me happy to be there. … Continue reading

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Now we pause for a word~

In the last month – heck, in the last week—Cam’s house finally came into his possession (which means that Char’s came into hers), our bedroom was finished so we could move back into the rest of the house, and I … Continue reading

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Week May 3rd: pt. 2

Tuesday, May 4 Here is how paint colors are chosen in our house— Me: You know, I think we really kind of need a change after 30 years.  And I think I’d like black walls this time.  Any shade; doesn’t … Continue reading

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