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and here are four of the five thousand I have all gummed up somewhere. Cliffs of Moher on the westest coast of Ireland A Renoir at the National Gallery in London Two rather odd views from in fr...

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Well, one house and two apartments. Deb picked them out and paid for them and mastered all the details. I was just along for the stay. Still I enjoyed them and loved the way they felt. Like...

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On the overnight flight from Newark to Dublin on a wide body United flight. My son in the aisle seat, me in the middle and the woman who said she liked to talk in the window seat. She was fro...

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Is Imgur working? It lets me upload pics but when I go to look at them in Images it gives me an error message. A cute error message but an error message just the same. I can’t see any of my i...

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I went to Ireland, Paris and London, and now I’m back home. I plan to write about at great length and to post some photos. As of now my photos are in limbo and as I recall my religious training...

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bath * shampoo * filled water jugs for flowers * picked 4 red peonies from under the light pole, 1 white from the SW corner of the house * clipping coupons Dollar Fresh, trip to buy pop in my fu...

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I’m in a funny mood this morning. Not hilarious, but not extremely odd either. I’m not even sure what I want to say. What I can say. What would be wise. Or comforting. To either you o...

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Tell me what you’d like. Tell me how you’d like it. Will it last long? Will it last forever? Does it come with ice cream? Is tomorrow like today? Sunshine in fact or fiction? Time lasts forever....

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…Mother’s Day plus a week. … my 58th wedding anniversary minus a day. … a sunny cool day of blossoms and tall grass. … a day that is a gift full of public radio and weak cocoa. Plus a couple o...

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For the holiday ----- You don’t have to be specific. I won’t be. First child was named for his grandfathers. Second for his father and his uncle. All four names are pretty common and I supp...

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Wild plums. And a violet. I weeded a little today. I planted my will-to-propagate potato and some couple year old marigold seeds. We move on.

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Pup and I had a nice walk this morning. I took a bunch of pictures =- and we practiced ‘no’ or what seemed more effective, ‘hold it’. She pulled herself out of her collar last night and while...

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Abby in a woodsy corner of the deck. The thing on the right of the picture is an upsidedown cream can of family history. I painted it antique red in later era of family history and now it’s ...

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Before she got stuck on top of the stairs. Before she went wading in the mud. Before she scared the cats.

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We got a new dog. I will post a picture soon. She’s a 4-yr-old Huskie mix from the humane society and she’s a nice dog. Ok. So what’s the problem? She went upstairs and she won’t come d...

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One end of my house loop. My poor unfortunate house loop that now feels like ancient history. Sun is shining today. Things are happening. Now if I can just get my own self moving. In a po...

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This is the road across the dike at Reno Bottoms - where we always walk across the river. And here’s the view up river.

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Just listened to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, the public radio news and entertainment program that airs in my world on Saturday mornings. This time it was in Nashville TN and had country singer ...

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I think there is a different term but that’s what comes to mind - what mind? - right now. Those of you who know what I mean will know what I mean. The kind you get with a prescription from a h...

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Carol Burnett and Willie Nelson are both celebrating their 90th birthdays this week. Carol’s is the 26th and Willie’s is the 29th. Interesting that they were born so close together, both hav...

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How much of ourselves do we want to give? How much can we disperse into the world yet still stay ourselves? Does anyone care? Do I even care? Is the glass half full? And what are we drin...

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https://www.rotarylights.org/live-river-cam.html If you can make it live you can see how fast the water is going by. The trees on the island are no longer on an island. This has felt like a mil...

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I made the bed and put away the books and magazines and newspapers and pens. I took dirty clothes down to the washer and brought clean dry clothes up from the basement and put them away. ...

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Sorry for forcing the snow on you. It’s quite a bit though. It of course won’t last long. Much will sink into the dry ground. It is pretty. And it’s funny how less oppressive snow is af...

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