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#240...I Lost It...I Am Sorry

I did it. I dropped the “F” bomb! For that I am very sorry. There is no excuse. The best justification I can present is that I was so excited about the Saturday Army Parade which was absolutely the best! And the narration we could hear was the magic! Russ and I are both from Military families. He is a Son of the American Revolution and I am a Daughter of the American Revolution. His father,…

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#238...No Time to Rest, Add a Project

Just when I was on top of my flower plots…everything cleaned up and refreshed, I asked Silly Sally if she knew where I could buy these fancy flower pots for my patio. Yes. we can MAKE THEM…in the spring. That gave me time to find them thrifting. What a fun party with 4 of us! Never done that before. I was the newbie! My pots are all going to be outside in the rain, with an occasional sunny day…

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#237...Babcia, Repentance, Forgiveness

If you have followed my blogs over the years, you have found how ridiculous and fun my life can be, how I spend my time looking for hub side-kick, hiding from me at the golf course or his 5th trip to Lowe”s in one day… how to spend $1 at a garage sale silly and then redo a complete room around it! For sure you know that my house never looks the same 2 days in a row. Hey! God gave me His…

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#236...Finishing up House Projects and Transitioning to Yard Workhorse

I was actually going to sneak out yesterday and rake a plot and sow poppy seeds which need to be inspired by cold weather AND IT RAINED.  Then the blizzard hit amidst 70 mph winds, the ice set in; power went out and cancelled our SAR meeting for tonight. Hub-sidekick has a good attitude about eating salad prepared for 30 people IF I boil some eggs and make it a Chef’s Salad… It is amazing all the…

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#235...Living with a Compatriot

It now takes him longer to get dressed then me. He has his higher-then-knee, stockings. Of course the dark orange garters…The white nightshirt to his knees…all of which has to be tucked into his britches. You think I’m pulling your leg. Then a very tight vest buttoned to the top…Oh, 1st, a cowled black neck piece over the nightshirt collar…The red and navy blue wool coat. Top it off with knee…

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#234...A New Year, Forgiveness...A Good Read, Click on APPLY!

Down the hatch with 2024! I shed a lot of tears last year. So many things went south. Every time we turned around. something with the house, MAJOR, had to be repaired. There were 3 1/2 months of disruption to getting the front room remodeled… more major breakdowns. Every piece of equipment overhauled! Sixteen tires had to be replaced. There was no normal in our house. Even yesterday the water…

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#231...Gotta Focus on the Good Around Us

I need a heavy dose of God around me. There is soooo much bad stuff going on. Tell me, where do 10,000 evacuated people…so far 10,000, go? How do they go to work and make $$ to pay the bills? Where do they eat? The fires and wind rage with no end in site. Don’t people in California realize they need to remove ALL trees in the Santa Anna wind area? My heart hurts for my high school friends there.…

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#233..Geez It's Been 7 Months, Toss the Jello

What a year it has been! Ever since I got bronchial pneumonia boarding the train for New York, October of 2023, we have had to deal with one thing after another. Seven months of 4 doses  of antibiotics and steroids finally got me on track again with that issue. Then Russ started coughing and coughing, then violent coughing, aspirating constantly. A year of tests, consulting with 3 different…

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#232...Winter, Spring, Sprinter

  I am soooo ready to play out in my flower plots but it is sooo cold out there! Trees are blossoming…flowers everywhere and still we are in the deep freeze. The garden has been plowed, thank you Terry Goforth, the seeds are waiting and here I sit. Next week, hub side-kick is instructed to load up the trailer and go to Moffets to get mulch. Would be nice to get on top of the weeds before they…

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#231...70 Degree Drop In One Day...This is Missouri

This is February after all. So this week has been 70’s and then 80..and now this morning snow and 12 degrees. My friends have been asking what all have I been doing outside? The weather never determines my activities. Everything in my life is planned by 4 seasons. Spring does not officially start for almost 3 1/2 weeks so that is all the time I have left to finish my house projects, and I’m…

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#230...Black/Gray & Coral...Weaving a Common Thread

Feb 23 and it’s going to be 70 degrees. Of course I have spring fever! The miracle is that hub-side kick does also. We ordered up BLACK windows and BLACK doors! ! ! 3X3 sheets of gray flooring. OMG! I am painting up everything I can find in flat black. So I have a black wall in one bedroom with coral “popS” and gray walls in another bedroom with coral “popS”…so you see the plan is to tie the…

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#229...Valentine's Day at a New Level

Flowers are true love, chocolate the finest gift…if not diamonds… This morning I experienced the next level of love. Hub side-kick took some time thinking about this. I have been awaiting therapy for arthritis pressing on my nerve endings in my neck and somehow I had fallen between the cracks with an appointment and 4 weeks have passed and in a few more days, I finally, am scheduled for 3X’s a…

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#228...I'm Back...Reflecting...

Geez, It’s been 3 1/2 months since I last posted! So much has happened to change my life. We had to get ready for our train trip to Schenectady New York in October. Prepare all the flower plots for winter…the farm…equipment, winterize the motorhome, the house, pack, leave the house clean…so much to do, not to mention all the club responsibilities…exhausting, exhilerating but crossing the line to…

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#227...Books, Magazines Get Me in Trouble...Again

Where do all these projects come from? Why, my beloved magazines…HGTV, BETTER HOMES & GARDENS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, WOMAN’S DAY, REAL SIMPLE, COUNTRY HOME and GARDEN GATE. Sometimes 4 issues will come in 1 day. I’m in heaven! But I cannot keep all these magazines, so going thru the pages, there will be nuggets of gold and I will tear out that page and circle something I need to research later. Such…

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#225...Changing Times Bring About Creativity

Dealing with these new changes  with 4 plans to choose from concerning our electrical billing seem overwhelming. It’s all about “peak hours”…they say. We still have to deal with the situation at hand, so we are going to the office and sit down and figure out what is best for us. The horror stories are emerging as others are trying to figure out how this will work. But one thing I know, the human…

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#223...Changing of the Colors, Of Course!

I am my mother’s daughter. Every season 4 times a year she would rearrange the rooms. I have faithfully duplicated that all my life. And then when I was a teen, someone invented the 1st garage sale…yard sale, and I’ve been saling ever since! Now in the late autumn of my life, because of macular degeneration of my eyes, I cannot make out a straight line painting in a corner. So if I’m to change…

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#222...The City Sleeps. The Storm Rages. I Write.

Laying there in bed at 3 AM with the thunderstorms screaming around me, I was so filled with thoughts, of ideas…of autumn! Time for a blog. So my thoughts are on the future. I had decided I was in the winter of my life yesterday because I wasn’t feeling well, but I’m thinking this morning I am in the fall of my life. There is sooo much work to be done. I’m back to SERIOUS purging, room by room.…