Category Archives: The g-kids

~:: All Hallows Eve ::~

Okay – I had a lot to say.  I wanted to write about October (which I still will), and about Hallowe’en – (sneaking in the fact that I love the yellow moons and the black cats and the pumpkins and … Continue reading

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~:: End of May ::~

Dropping back again.  So this is how I look when I shoot – face all screwed up, like I can’t see properly or hold still long enough if my face isn’t stiff. Chaz in her fancy summer striped dress, and … Continue reading

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~:: More May ::~

This is no big deal. I can’t understand why it has been so difficult to sit down and do this for the last many months. Whatever the reason, I’m tired of not doing it. But I will say, I’m not … Continue reading

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~:: More Fourth ::~

The 4th of July.  Independence Day. Barbecues, parades (with horses), fireworks, craft fairs, patriotic villages, friends, games, marching bands, bagpipes, craziness.  This year started with G getting up early to run a 10K race.  And Chaz and Chelsea and I … Continue reading

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~:: Back to the 4th ::~

I’m going to be moving backward in time here. Unevenly, too. Again, this blog is – at its heart – the journal I’m keeping of our lives. So I don’t want to miss things. I just wish I weren’t compelled … Continue reading

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~:: Big Balloons ::~

Okay.  This is why I haven’t been journaling: I don’t know when to stop.  I am not moderate.  I cannot help myself. So this is long. But it’s mostly pictures, so you don’t have to work too hard to get … Continue reading

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~:: Rest of the Springy Thing ::~

We have always kept a line between the candy eggs on Saturday and maybe real eggs on Sunday, though why dyed eggs, real or not, should count as appropriate on such a deeply significant holy day, I’m not sure I … Continue reading

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~:: The Spring Thing ::~

Rewind: Easter Part 1 – Outside Chaz came home with a surprise for me—plush peeps. Even though these will NOT dry out and become a crusty delight, they are dang cute. And here we are: an ancient scene somewhat reduced. … Continue reading

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~:: My Very Large House ::~

I have written about this before, the strange and expanding nature of my very large house. It starts with a cluster of not very large rooms.  Like these two, with a boy standing on the seam between them. And like … Continue reading

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~:: What Happened on Monday ::~

First, may I say that I am growing to hate capchas of any kind with a deep and abiding hatred?  Well, I am.  And the darned things are getting longer. Isn’t there another way? Counter-bots that follow the dang spammers … Continue reading

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