Started out the morning showing houses, beautiful sunny morning. By the time I was driving home, taking the familiar old route I used to drive home from college twenty years ago, was getting warm. The city is different now with all the trees bare, but the buildings were shiny in the sun. I took this […]
Big Santa is back. And Little Santa. There’s also water skiing Santa, but he’s hard to see in the dark. Here’s the cardboard Santa Jay’s mom gave us back in the early 80s. Candle lights are all set. I thought some little girls might like to help with the tree, and they did for about
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Preparations take time, but we’ve done this before so we have a system. Alicia’s pictures: Kirsten’s pictures: The end of the evening: Beautiful day–Happy Thanksgiving, Love, Val
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On Monday we went to a game, and it was so much fun. Same as always, kid sports. They played a great game. And the siblings were more interested in running around with their friends and the concession stand than anything else. Nice how not much changes. Love you all, Grandma and Grandpa
This is what happened during the night. Maria’s boyfriend Dalton’s house burned up. She sold her house a few months ago and they bought another house together and have moved there, so this house was empty, being prepared to go on the market and sold this winter. Except this now: The neighbor was in a
These November days, early darkness, windy, overcast, just like always. The clouds are glorious. Love, Val
Took some pictures, trying to get used to this old camera since the one I usually use got lost at the cabin a few weeks ago. This camera takes perfectly fine pictures, but the computer saves them in an odd way, which I have to figure out and get used to. Last weekend, Jay stuffed
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It was good to have a volleyball season this year, and fun to celebrate at the end. So much love, Mom
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It was a beautiful weekend, spent with Dan and Alicia and the kids. They were funny and wild and we played games and raked up a big leaf pile to play in. The guys worked on projects, splitting wood and fixing the floor in the corner of Dan’s cabin. I bought a copy of The
