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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Winter in Colorado Springs

Near 60F yesterday, there is ice frost riming the trees and everything this morning, and black ice on the streets... No sign of the mountains. Charlie arrives early... good, he can scrape ice off the windshield with the scraper hidden in a wampa arm. Star Wars fans will know what that is. Or ThinkGeek customers. I have handed him the key so he can start the engine and the defrost, which will still take some time to have any effect. He says it's the worst he has seen the ice ever. I had a pale... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Losing Christmas

We undid Christmas today... at least as far as the decorations, the tree, the lights... Took just a few more pictures, then boxed and tetrised everything into a single big flattish storage box. We noted carefully where we put it because last year we lost Christmas. We looked in every place we could imagine having stored the pretties and shinies--both his garage and mine, closets, under-beds, other closets--and found them nowhere. Until, of course, today. Charlie found last Christmas's trims and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

I've been waiting for this day...

Petco, the nearest pet store to the house, maybe once a year offers its plain and simple fish tanks for $1/gallon. I missed the window the past couple of years, but today I was ready for it, and my three comet goldfish now have a new home, and I do hope the three of them will get along! A few months ago, I didn't see one of the pair that lived in the 3 gal tank together. Some investigation of nearby surfaces yielded nothing, so I looked more carefully in the tank. That fish was trapped under a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Home Day

Charlie was feeling under the weather today, so I didn't have to drive him through yesterday's weather to get him to work. He is quite pleased that next week he is going to a part-time schedule which will allow him to get back into theater--has an audition in a couple of weeks for a show with a Lovecraftian theme. And he will have more time for the substitute teaching. And he will be able to go into the call center and work extra hours for the money, when he wants to. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Here it comes...

It started east of New Zealand, swept westward through Sydney, Australia, all the way to Perth... It washed over Asia and India and the Middle-east... Africa and Europe... it passed over the British and Irish lands in a flash, and as I write, it is flying across the Atlantic to the Americas... Maryland, Quebec and Ontario, Kansas City and St Louis, and all the other places where our Blogit friends live... and, just less than 5 hours from now, 2015 will be here in Colorado, sailing over the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Into the Woods

We went to see the new movie of this exceptional musical today. I've seen bits and pieces of it before, and once, a high school production that left me pretty much confused as to the story and goings-on. It was great to finally get the story and understand who was saying what to whom and why. The music (and lyrics) of Stephen Sondheim dance with a great cleverness of rhyme reminding me of the quick brilliance of Gilbert and Sullivan, but the music bounces around in minor keys and unexpected... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

News...

I just heard from my sister a couple of hours ago that Mom died very quietly and easily on Wednesday night. Julie was with her, and she says Mom was aware of her being there, which eased one of her fears, that she would die alone. She has been wanting to go for several years, in constant pain and unable to do anything for herself. That was hard for her, a woman who never paid anyone to do anything she could do for herself. She was 92. She and Julie were a team for 70 years. She was my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Giving a little can mean a lot.

Here is another of my favorite places to send money when I can: http://gifts.rescue.org/product/education/year-school The International Rescue Committee offers a selection of specific items or actions that you can donate for relatively small amounts of money, that really make a significant difference even if it to only one child who needs protection from malaria mosquitoes, or a girl whose life will be changed by the opportunity to go to school, or a baby can get emergency care, or a pregnant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 26, 2014

A few pictures of our Christmas decor

https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Of course, Violetta had to get in on the act! I see I have left out one picture: the tree in its Christmas Morning regalia. I will add that one in next time. Sign in to see full entry.

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The day is done

Our Christmas day, adjusted for necessity, started around 6am. We had our special breakfast of french toast--I used some of the black currant jam that we Santas had put in the big food basket, the thing we do now instead of stockings. Charlie's french toast is special because he actually toasts the bread before dipping it in the batter. Then we disturbed Violetta from her nest among the presents under the tree, and then disturbed the packaging. Charlie has some new respectable and yet fun shirts... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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