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cold

Tim gave us the white bulbs for Christmas, and Sherry gave us the red ones.  The red may bloom again.  They’re just sooo pretty.  A little youth basketball for tonight, was a fast moving, very rough game.   Number 12 said it wasn’t that much fun to play in. He got banged around a lot. – […]

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helpful

That little yule log the cat has his nose on–my mom and I made those on an afternoon at her house. In 1996! That thing has held up.   But there are always the straggler Christmas decorations that don’t get spotted on the first round of clean up, or the second.   Maybe this one is on

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this year

The cold snap this week is super unpopular. It has us looking at pictures of Mexico. We decided to skip it this year, and that’s still the right choice, just feeling a little wistful when the high for Friday is like -15F. This baby dog is the reason we decided to stay home, and she’s

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so quiet

It’s January and the days are very short, and very quiet. It was a pretty tragic week in Minneapolis.  The community was assaulted, and an innocent person was killed.  The news is disturbing on every level.  A precious friend is expected to make a good recovery, but the surgery coming up this week is serious

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