Category Archives: Writing

:: All Hallow’s Eve ::

I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today.  I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it.  I love holidays.  I love the ones that … Continue reading

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~o:> October Notes

When I posted on Moment-to-moment this morning, I got this for my security word: Altrumat. I think I’m going to be asking questions here, and wanting answers.  Question one: how would you define this word? Come on, come on – … Continue reading

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:: The Explanation ::

My oldest daughter’s father-in-law is a crazy man.  When he was young, he stepped out of his life, joined the LDS church (alone of all his family), jumped on a motorcycle and took himself to Utah.  There, he went to … Continue reading

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~o:> Ah, to be clever and crafty!

I guess it’s because of the photobooks that my days disappear so quickly.  My Cammon dropped by the other morning to borrow G’s iPod.  I noticed the green truck at our curb, sandwiched into a line of string players’ vehicles … Continue reading

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~o:> at least the carpets were clean

This morning (this would be Thursday, September 9): I did the treadmill, then trotted down the long pasture driveway in a little rain.  Let the horses out, fertilized about three quarters of a acre, moved two days’ and five horses’ … Continue reading

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~A little less than the angels~

A long, odd day of problem solving.  And here is a matter of business I have to cover right away: my friend, Linda, is doing a giveaway on her blog, and I want to win it.  And I get more … Continue reading

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A day of rest~

Not an auspicious beginning, this morning was.  The kitchen clock, a pendulum Regulator that I bought on a Presidents’ Day sale the year before G and I were married, has presided over our days now for over thirty years.  You … Continue reading

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~o:> oh, camping, oh

I think of myself as growing up in a Big Camping Family. I have slept on the ground with only an ancient sleeping bag between me and the rocks, on bouncy cots that turn over if you’re not careful, on … Continue reading

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~o:> Of flying cars and shining spheres

Note: the embedded photographs have absolutely nothing to do with the post.  They are simply here for those of you who I know will simply pass on all these words and only look at the pictures. Little bums. The Post … Continue reading

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~o:> Having a Hay Day 2010

Okay, I have so dang much to write about.  And I’m behind reading everybody else.  Why?  I don’t know why.  Stuff keeps happening.  So – write or read?  Write or read???  Okay – both. But me first. By the way, … Continue reading

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