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Category Archives: Explanations
Freezing
Holy cats. I thought I had lost a finger to frost bite this morning. Six degrees in the barn, horses covered with frost, tiny icicles hanging in their hair like silver tips at the end of corn rows. I was … Continue reading
Phooey
Don’t forget to enter for the lovely rainbow Christmas window princess kiss star giveaway at the bottom of this link!!! Not so bouncy today. Last night, I spent hours in a sort of bumbling nightmare: turns out when you upgrade … Continue reading
Oh—and incidentally . . .
Okay, so I went by the post office the other day and waited in a HUGE long line at a counter that had six registers and only one human behind it. We joked around, the other waiters and I, dark … Continue reading
Posted in Excuses, Images, Just life, Minutiae, Seasons
Tagged domestic chaos, healthcare, Horses, postal service, puppies, stars
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Not ready ~
I don’t know whether it’s the fact that M is still far away in Argentina, and Gin on the other side of the continent in RI. Or if maybe it’s because I’d decided to move our Thanksgiving dinner up to … Continue reading
Posted in Explanations
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~:: having a hay day ::~
Now, ya’ll may not find this interesting. But as a dyed-in-the-wool ignorant suburb-baby, I find it absolutely and utterly fascinating. Stick with me and I’ll have you well educated in the art of angsting over the coming winter and knowing … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Explanations, friends, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images, Just life, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged friends, hay, kids, summer, tractor
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That thing I do –
I’m always intending to amaze and delight by explaining the structure (sorry, choked on that one) of my day. Really, it’s fascinating. No. It is. So today, as I was slogging away at my Life’s Work, I pulled out a … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Explanations, Images
Tagged Disney, photo books, Photographs, Photoshop
12 Comments
Saplings
I took myself by surprise this morning. I had been fasting; we all fast on the first Sunday of every month, the entire LDS world wide church, two meals. We do this because … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Just life
Tagged boys, fasting, missionary
18 Comments
Saturday
HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Family, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images of our herd in specific, Just life
Tagged fence, grass, Horses, husband, rain, spring
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An interview with A Motley Vision
If you are so inclined, the interview is located HERE. It is my earnest hope that I managed not to say anything entirely stupid during the course of it. If I did, I’m sure you’ll let me know.
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, The outside world
Tagged interview, Slumming, writing
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I’m having an apostrophe—
Not an epiphany. (Allusion alert: whatcha say, new Uncle Scribe? You got it? Of course you do.) I mean just what I said, and I am going to give a little lesson right here and now on what the little … Continue reading