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:: 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
Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The kids
Tagged Autumn, bats, cats, Halloween, kids, light, pumpkins, quilts, skeletons
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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
Posted in dumb stuff, Epiphanies and Meditations, Horses, Images, Images of our herd in specific, Just life, Seasons
Tagged Autumn leaves, gates, Horses, running, shower curtains, toilets, Tricia
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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
Posted in A little history, Explanations, Family, friends, Gin, The g-kids, The kids, Visits
Tagged death, Gin, Ken, life, love
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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
~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
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Just life
Tagged carpets, craziness, happiness, irrigation, life
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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
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
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Just life
Tagged church, clocks, hymns, organ, piano
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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
Posted in A little history, Family, Horses, Journeys, Memories and Ruminations, Rachel
Tagged camping
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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
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Just talk, The g-kids, The kids
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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
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Events, friends, Images, IMENHO (Evidently not humble), Just life, Rachel
Tagged farming, friends, hay, humanity, Rachel, rain
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