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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Make Over

The aroma wafting through the vents to every room is wonderfully nostalgic. Pumpkin pies for tomorrow are cooking in my oven. Lynn Zimmer's Jazz Band is playing "Down in Honky Tonk Town" and it is difficult for me to keep from tapping my toes and grinning while my fingers are tapping on the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Our Petty Race

"When one sees the thing, all that is said of it comes true. Its isolation, its dignity, its weight, are all three awful. It looks as though it had been built long before all record by beings greater than ourselves, and were intended to stand long after the dissolution of our petty race...." ~... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

One Is Missing

Aren't these just about the cutest grandbabies you have ever seen....well, except for those that belong to adnohr maybe. I wouldn't want to challenge her to a contest. Today is Megan's birthday. She just turned five, and her BD party was this evening. She was a bit disappointed that her brother,... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Speaker Phones Chap My Hide

"We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may never see." ~ Bertrand Russell On Sunday afternoons my Florida family gather's in the living room of their home and they turn their phone on to "speaker phone" and we have a good old family get-together, in spite of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Our Ideas About Things

On a recent visit to her doctor, Sis told him that she would be voting for President Obama for a second term. His response was a horrified: "But he's ruining the economy!! We will become Greece!! We will become Greece!!" ~ The Doctor I like the quote from a famous ancient Greek, "Men are not worried... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Lives Interrupted

NY Nephew is riding the subway again finally, but only in Brooklyn where he lives. He hasn't been able, yet, to ride the subway to Manhattan where he works. He is fortunate, though, that he is able to work from home, find food, get around on his bike and walks a lot, so that he's not needing gas for... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

There's Always Meat Loaf

You know you are getting down to the wire when you get a phone call from Clint Eastwood. Yes it was, THE Clint Eastwood of "Go ahead, make my day!" fame, and the "Surprise Speaker" at the 2012 Republican Convention who ended up talking to an empty chair. He called Florida Son yesterday. After he... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Was It Homicide?

This afternoon, I have felt pretty much like a Forensic Pathologist taking apart one of Grandson Phil's giant Jack-O-Lanterns from last night's revelry. He does get a kick out of going with his Dad to buy them, and then watch him do the dirty work, carve the spooky face and light them up just as it... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

On Being Dramatic

In the night watch, when all is still, and shadows creep, from movements of flickering light of mango-scented candles....at a time when one should be stretched between the sheets with downy softness pillowing a sleeping head, this head of mine refuses to do what it should. It refuses to sleep when I... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Duffman

We didn't go to WaterFire tonight. With the temperature dropping fast and aiming toward a hard freeze, we just couldn't see two geriatrics sitting on a riverbank in the dark watching 50+ bonfires float past when we could sit near the fire at home and drink chai and entertain ourselves in a more... Sign in to see full entry.

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