This was the first day over fifty degrees! It felt great. The amaryllis is coming back to life again. These girls were here Saturday evening with their dad. The big sister was having a birthday party with her friends and wanted them out for a while. It was fun. Love, Val
Today was a much better day than yesterday ended up. Presents and Dairy Queen cake, perfect. I hope eleven is a fantastic year. Happy Birthday, my darling, Love, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
These pictures do not do justice to this lovely evening. He mentioned that the last Pops Concert was March, 2020, right before society closed down. It was a great concert, Julia on the French Horn. So glad for March, you beautiful devil. So glad you’ve arrived. Love, Val
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February, shortest month of the year felt very long, cold, and sad. So many losses in one month. And such personal ones too. Today was warm out, so I varnished the last of the trim pieces for the ceiling in Tim’s old room–did it on the patio so fumes not in the house, chatted with
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Yeah, and then in the afternoon the sun came out, which seemed weird while it was still snowing. This very quiet week in this very quiet month is almost over. The turtle tank is waiting for our attention. Love, MOM
Today’s our anniversary, and we both work, had no anniversary plans, but it seemed like we should mark the day somehow. We’d agreed on no gifts, but I went shopping and found a few gifts for him anyway, little fun things. Then there was still plenty of time before work and I sure didn’t feel
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We went over to their house to help with creating the data for the baking experiment. The day before they had baked eight batches of cupcakes, all the same chocolate birthday cake flavor, but only one of the batches used eggs like the recipe called for. The other batches were made with different substitutions for
Today I spent over an hour on the phone with our internet provider. Jay asked me to do this last night: “Please call and figure this out.” Okay. Sigh. We have two accounts: A home phone, and a business account for business phone and internet. They put us on paperless billing for the business account,
Last night heard this guy laughing in the kitchen during the evening. I’m not fully over to day shift, still have an evening shift on Thursday and afternoon on Friday, but there he was. The kids were in the kitchen for hours. Why the kitchen? We have a living room AND a family room on
