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I got up to go to the bathroom. House seemed quiet and cold and since temp is supposed to be low, I went to basement to visit the wood fire. The furnace had a fair amount of wood in it, but it ...

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald More of the Fitz is here. And while I was shopping for life I found this: An...

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Do you know anyone who has won significant money in a lottery? What did they do with it? How did it affect their lives?

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I should have asked you guys for some pointers but instead I went into it pretty dumb. But I took some pictures so maybe that makes up for it. The Coulee Region Chill played the Janesville Jets....

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i got home today at 2. Took a big nap starting at 6 or so and just got up and took a bath. At work today and just now in the bathtub I’ve been reading The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford - cute n...

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… is Ground Hog Day. Always six more weeks of winter… even though this winter has been mild in my neck of the woods. |~| The picture above just showed up in my email. It came from the son’s c...

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I found it on Facebook and I shared it there but for those of you who aren’t Facebook aficionados.... http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/brothers-recreate-childhood-photos-gift-mom/story?id=28611425...

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Here is a link to the story. There is a new theory on the internet about falling in love. It involves finding a semi-possible person - it goes without saying - and asking and answering a series ...

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http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

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From the Des Moines Register: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/life/2015/01/18/meet-two-real-bachelor-farmers-iowa/21971505/?hootPostID=%5B%2773b7c96a45e979b1187bc055b128ab5b%27%5D

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I came across this offer of employment and living arrangement. Sounds like a good time, doesn’t it? Too bad is was almost 6 yrs ago. Oh well. We live in the here and now. At least I think ...

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It’s 7 am, Saturday morning, ten degrees below zero. I have been up for an hour or so, mostly in the basement, playing, working, dealing with the fire and reading The Sportwriter by Richard Ford....

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This has been a long week and there is still a day of it left. Hours were varied. Monday 6 - 2:30. Tuesday 8 - 4:30. Wednesday through Friday 6 - 2:30. Next week we work 6 - 2:30 too. We had ...

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Would you rather work four ten hour days or five eight hour days? Give supporting data and opinions, if you please.

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When I finished Salter’s Light Years I went back to the front and read a long introduction by Richard Ford. It was a good piece of writing itself and it lead me to look Ford up. He has an inte...

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At some point I should go back to my lists and rescue the things I haven’t done and make a new list out of them. I remember a few off the top of my head - the damn piano the damn dictionary dog ...

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Thursday Apologies for last night’s complaint. Or was that last year’s complaint? Either way I’m pretty much over it. I have moved on. Nothing has changed except my perspective has altered a ...

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Just realized the entry I wrote last night had been saved as a private entry for no good reason. I just changed it to public so if you want to go back and read it please feel free. This is new...

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Tuesday. I’m sure some of you recognize me in my cremation garment. It’s the insulated hooded sweatshirt that my kids bought me for Christmas one year when they were both still in school. Sinc...

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Monday. A pretty good day for checking items off the list(s). Found my cremation garment. Jim found it upstairs in his room. It was at the bottom of a basket of his important papers. How it ...

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Sunday. A few pictures - of Christmas and the puzzle. Katie likes to feel the puzzle. The family - John looks a little disgruntled - it was not a posed photo. Gracie and the puzzle story. W...

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That would be Friday and Saturday. Friday afternoon we started on the jigsaw puzzle. This is it. It is a remarkable puzzle. The engineer is entranced. It’s about two thirds done. (I got it at...

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.... you are all I’ve ever wanted .... That doesn’t mean I want you and I don’t have you. It means I have you and I’m grateful. This is my son’s Twin Cities suburb. I think there is weather mag...

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What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before? I rode Amtrack. Not a very long trip but it was very pleasant. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next yea...

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Christmas eve and Christmas day. Are a little hard to separate. Let’s see. Yesterday I slept till half past noon. Of stayed in bed anyway. Then for the rest of the day I did pretty close ...

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