Living dangerously. The tree is up and decorated: Jay’s mom gave me that little ceramic tree from her house: Put the candlestick lights in all the windows, and Jay got the lights on the pine tree out front working again. It’s strangely warm though, like an October day, not approaching December. It’s fine. We’ll take […]
It was a lovely long day, is not even over indeed yet, with a grandchild on her grandpa’s pillow now. This is a bouquet Kirsten sent to Maria, prettiest bouquet on the table: More flowers. I do love fresh flowers. Maria made this out of printer paper. Wow. A poo-tell: And the feasting begins. We
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The floors are vacuumed, the tables are set. Flowers, beautiful flowers are on the tables. This is spectacular creation made out of computer paper. Wow. Who knew? And our tiny poo-tell has had a bath: Onward to tomorrow. Nothing but love, Val
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We went to Jay’s parents for the day. It’s turned to winter in the hours we drove north. Winter is pretty. I like looking at winter. Being in it? Yeah, well. This was quickly corrected with a shovel and some sand. As was this: Moving to an alternate entrance due to the hazard of this
We had one on Friday night, these two, living it up. Lillian, peeking out: Saturday night we had these guys. She plays dolls, which is pretty cute. We played Legos for a while, watched part of an incredibly boring Pokemon movie, read stories. Yeah, reading of the stories. That was sweet. Not. Yeah. It was
We had this Monday night–Kari’s NHS night as a junior. It’s November. These are Tim’s bare knees. In November. Today I called my brother about some computer problem, and when I checked back with him to tell him we’d figured it out he said, “Yes, I called your house, and some Manly-Type Person told me
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It was a long, weird week. Progress continued on the painting–looking excellent. More work was done today. We cleaned up the patio, but these guys took things out again on Tuesday. That’s all right. There was energy to burn. Yesterday Alicia’s car was being worked on, so she came to our house to wait the
We worked on leaves. Tim ran the mower. He got up there scraping, and it was worse than it looked from the ground. I cleaned the kitchen cupboards and drawers. I enjoy washing the pretty dishes and putting them back all sparkly in clean cupboards. (Dealing with drawers and tossing expired spices? Meh.) The stove
Kirsten’s birthday was a couple weeks ago, so we were happy to have her here in person. It was a business trip, but there were still evenings to spend together and Saturday. And Jay’s girlfriend, Katie, had a birthday last week too. A year ago, we barely knew you, Katie. It’s been a lot of
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