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back to reality

It’s been a quiet three weeks at home with Elin recovering from surgery.  The nights are long and the hockey rink is alive, pucks smacking the boards. The owls are loud many nights, high in the pines. I stole someone else’s shoes to take out the recycling, in the dark on the patio. And Christmas […]

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Okay, the office, the catalogue, the tablet. Christmas shopping in a subterranean space, quiet and warm. Whee, cruising into a strange Christmas, doing our best. Nothing but love, Val

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so, the corn

 Corn looking good. First batch, okay the story is: Maria sent him the grocery list by text, but also the recipe by email.   He never read the recipe. I have never made scalloped corn, but am aware of how it is done, that the butter has to be melted, the roux, the milk stirred in.

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pure sweetness

Alicia purchased this gift for Heidi and Joe’s youngest baby off etsty.  It’s incredibly sweet and cute. Entirely crocheted, perfectly perfect. And this is the funny representative of questionable ideas. Yes, I love her most dearly. She filled the ice cube trays with soapy water. Let that sink in for a second. Her mother found

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a quiet week

It was very quiet, boring.  This made me laugh–to be a kid, on a random Thursday morning, in a pandemic, stuck at home.  That’s the life we live. This photo I call Spontaneous Napping.  Girl got tired.  Couch cushion in the sun felt divine.  I texted Joe and he came upstairs and plucked her from

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