After graduation, the next day at noon we started baking. She’s been doing this since they were so little they had to stand on chairs at the breadboard. The woman knows how to roll cookies. I mostly ran the oven, and we’re a good team. Not even ONE pan was burned, and that’s probably a […]
This is a picture of Gladys and her husband Jim. Gladys was our accountant. I still think of her as our accountant. She and Jim were friends of Jay’s parents, absolutely first rate people. When you start a business, you need a good accountant, someone who understands small business and can explain things in very
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Today was the funeral. Nobody ever wanted to face this day, but there was no choice. It was a beautiful Catholic mass in the sunny old church nearby, same one where Dan and Alicia were married. So many loved ones and friends gathered in the snowy evening last night and in the sunshine today. Safe
We lost a friend today. Thirty-three years we’ve lived as next door neighbors, decades of friendship and good times shared, so much laughter–Don loved a good story, both telling and hearing them. He took a personal interest in each one of the kids, in their cars, in their driveway basketball games. Plus there are so
Friends we haven’t seen since before the pandemic brought their RV and stayed with us for the weekend. I didn’t expect it to be the size of a Greyhound bus, but it fit back in the trees. They brought this lovely dog along. They hired a guide and went fishing at another lake, had a
I sewed the shower curtain and window curtains years ago, and last winter noticed the window curtains had turned from blue to purple, fading in the sun. I kept thinking about shopping for fabric and sewing new ones, but procrastination and time, you know? All those button holes I’d have to sew, all the measuring
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These guys came for a while. Since it was their parents anniversary, we had them stay with us so the parents could enjoy some time alone. Tim played video games with them, played songs on the piano. It was very nice, and they were so happy. She re-discovered all the Barbies and loved how Julia
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It’s her, my oldest friend besides my sister. We text often, anything happens–anything funny, anything weird, anything on our minds. Well, this text came a few weeks ago. Barbel is my old barbie doll from when we were kids. Oh, the light bulb mishap, of course. The shade had come off the lamp and somehow
These are Renee’s birds, Basil and Dill. I love them, how delicate and tame they are. She said they never call them by their names, call them, “Little shits” instead. I can’t believe the dog and cats don’t gobble them up, but no. They don’t. And here’s the progress on the back of the
We’ve never had one before. Our neighbors, Don and Sherry gave this to us for Christmas, and we followed the directions, put the bulb in the window by the dryer and watered it. Well, look at this! It’s tall and gorgeous. We have to figure out what to do next with it, but this is
