A Girl with a Plan

Today AG had a dentist appointment.  Throughout our journey we discussed many things.  Things like the fact that she loves Johnny because he’s crazy and all the reasons why Jacob and Kendall don’t behave and why oh why did Miss Hunt wear that dress today.  The important things in life.  Eventually Anna Grace decided to […]

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Wednesdays are for Works in Progress

First up…. The Living Tower. Week 4 The tower garden is doing great.  The lettuce is ready to harvest, we’re getting some strawberries off the thing and the zucchini has gotten quite huge.  Our first little zucchini didn’t turn in to anything.  We’re speculating that since that was the first (and only) flower that opened […]

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New Outlook

I have come to not like car rider line very much.  I feel hurried or like I’m breaking the rules or something.  And then there’s the wait.  The wait is usually quiet (unless Jack Henry is squawking about something) and I have been passing the time reading Facebook posts on my phone or playing Boggle.  […]

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Wednesdays are for Works in Progress

…. and other stuff. Farmhouse Socks: Umpteenth Incarnation   I’m starting to think this yarn is cursed.  This is the umpteenth re-do/attempt at knitting socks with this same skein of yarn.  I think these have killed my knitting mojo.  I knit on them sometimes but that’s it because… well…. they’ve got bad ju ju. In […]

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So What’s Been Happening?

Well… many little things. 1.  We went to Iowa (“we” as in the kids and I) and had a great time seeing my dad, his fiance and my three sisters.  But midway through the trip an uninvited guest appeared: the stomach flu.  AG was the first to bottom out followed by me, Jack Henry and […]

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Epic

Been out of town. Went to Iowa… in the winter….to “enjoy” temps of 20 degrees below zero. Had a great time seeing my dad, his fiance and each of my sisters. Life was good. Seven adults, 2 kids, one house. Then the stomach flu visited. AG was the first victim.  7 more followed. My little […]

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