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  • Where was I? I think with #16...this will be an "I love" theme... 16. I love taking pictures of flowers. I love taking pictures of places we go and people I love too..but especially flowers. 17. I love t…

  • parallel sayings... I have been waiting to read this book for a long time! I got it on reserve at the library a few months ago, but while my friend was visiting, I forgot to pick it up, and they sent it back! So I …

  • 11. I am left-handed and right-eyed, and most of the time, confused. 12 I have an intolerance to wheat (there you go, Dustmite...) 13 I love breads, pasta, and anything that contains wheat 14 thank goodne…

  • Ok, I'm not being too original here, but all of your "100 things about me" lists have been really interesting, and you have inspired me to try to even think if I can come up with 100 things to say about myself. So h…

  • currently playing: On The Frontier by Ronstadt, Ramirez, and The Santa Cruz RIver Band Hey You! Yes, you! Pee Dog! Stop peeing on my garden! I can't eat my beet greens because of you! I know those nice …

  • boo hoo... They are leaving. Moving away to be a little closter to their family. When we moved to this town 12 years ago, they became our first friends. They are older than us...a bit older than our parents, too.…

  • Musings on Colonial House.... Referring to the last post about Colonial House: There was a comment about how church services were vital to colonists foir there sense of belonging to the community..that the servic…

  • one...two...three... "Flip the flummery!" We flipped the flummery out of my heart-shaped cake pan. What is flummery? It is a dessert of the colonial times...fruit and sugar and a thickener added, and then chi…

  • sprouting bepuzzlement..help? Are there any brussel sprout-growers here? I planted some from seed in March. They look beautiful...lots of big, full leaves, but no sprouts. I read that they form little nodules tha…

  • When you least expect it.... Just like when you plant a garden. You expect everything that you plant to grow and be beautiful and yummy. You have it all outlined in your brain. But then the unexpected …

  • There's nothing like a good laugh... OH geez.....I love this cd! (I'm listening to the cd version...but I'd love to read the book, too...) You can't imagine how **clean** my kitchen has been this week, because I'v…

  • I am tired I am tired of I am I am tired I am tired of not I am tired of not being able to being able to complete I am tired of not being able to complete a thought today. Wah! everyone in this hou…

  • Early America revisited... Our family is currently infatuated with the PBS airing of Colonial House. Last night, at 9:45pm (after watching for nearly 2 hours) ds lies down on the couch next to me and says dreamily…

  • Whoa! Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. There…

  • “We have to create for ourselves a body of compassion in which our fellow-beings will be cells” – From Gif…

  • xangazon: Currently playing: cacophony at crunchy's house The live play by play: My kids are playing a concert. One on the mini taiko drum, the other one on a toy trumpet..opps...changed to the civil war replica …

  • ask and you shall receive... check out the penis joke is the last entry's comments. Ahem...switching gears here...Did you hear about the comet? Comet Neat is in the west-southwestern sky at the horizon at sunset.…

  • wanted: laughing material I really need a good belly laugh. Anyone care to share their favorite joke, or know a comedian you would like to recommend? I envision dropping in a cd of a funny person while doing the di…

  • insomnia 3:45am. Up again. Been up every hour to half hour as the little skinny girl wakes. this used to be her baby pattern and then I'd fall back to sleep in a moment each time. But this old pattern kicks me i…

  • Great book this is! It's a good read-aloud for about the 6-10 age range, or higher still. You may have read it in your own childhood, or maybe even have seen the movie. I remember seeing the filmstrip at school one…

  • Happy Mother's Day! the emperess tree in my back yard is in bloom...

  • on-the-spot fun I ran into an old friend at Target today. She was my first stay-at-home mom friend. We hung out together when our firstborns were babies. We ended up talking (rather she did most of the talking,…

  • Doubletake... I had a neat encounter today. The kids and I were at the grocery store, and as I turned down the international asile, I saw a woman with a babe in a sling. Being the local sling queen (in addition to…

  • Welp, da book says that it is an entiirely different thing to tell a child to go somewhere else to express his anger than it is to invite him to show you how angry he is. The jist of this is that kids want to be unde…

  • Yes...SIblings Without RIvalry is helping....at least, helping *my* perspective of the kids' dynamics at this point. I haven't done anything with what I have gleaned so far from the book. I read this book a few year…

  • Oh help.

  • There is a heap of uprooted, wilting sunflowers in my garden right now. I felt so bad doing it...pulling out that sunflower forest! They are all volunteers from last year's forest, and they needed to come out. I …

  • Something to do while dd sits on my lap tonight writing on every post-it pad on the desk..do a quizilla quiz.... got this one from Mo_B: What is Your Heart REALLY Made of?brought to you by Quizilla Not…

  • visit/vacation memory #12,307: We're all sitting at little tables at the Arizon Folklore Preserve watching our favorite local folksinger perform. (Dolan Ellis, Arizona's Official Baladeer) He just finishes a so…

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