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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

PatB mentioned an appaloosa stallion...

I have owned for 25 years an a appy mare. Her name is Sonja, after the fiery fantasy heroine, a female Conan sort. She grew up in my back yard, from a leggy young thing to a statuesque creature with a mind of her own. Some days, a fence would not hold her. (Did you know, a horse on the loose in Thurston County is a traffic violation?) I was never a practiced horse-person, and an appy was not the kind of horse I should have had. But there was this woman who was persuasive, and sold me my mare's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mica is my daughter's remaining cat

of the three that she adopted when she was in college, around 15 years ago. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Approaching a landmark

I added up the numbers today, and find I have had some 19,287 clicks on my blogs. It has taken a few years, so I consider that 20,000-read mark as meaningful. I'm not sure as to how, that it is an indicator of how many or how few compelling posts I've managed over the years since the start of my Blogiting. I wonder if there's a count of actual items I've read. Certainly not as many as some here, still less the count of comments and calling cards left: sometimes there is just nothing I have to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Now we know...

...that the protectee of the Secret Service fellas around the corner is Eric Holder, US Attorney General. The helicopter we hear now and then surveys the neighborhood before he comes home. The other night, the copter pinpointed Marika in a spotlight as she was suspiciously dog-walking. There are some lovely houses around this area, some quite large and elegant, and some smaller. Most all have small yards, except for older ones, grand or less so, that tend to have larger yards. I am sure all the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

what a nice surprise!

When my daughter bought something at Best Buy the other night, she used my number to get a few bonus points on my account, the checkout guy questioned the name. She said, no, it wasn't her name, it's her mom's, CL Redding. He said, "She's the writer? I've heard of her." How cool is that!? Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Making it up

TAPS posted about her discoveries of the use of makeup in the 1950s, and it started me on this little amble through the slightly less distant past... I was never much into makeup--special occasions, and used with a light hand: makeup should be noticed only as an effect, not as a thing in itself, was my theory. It was some years later, when I had my theater support/costuming shop, that I began to sell theatrical makeup, and learn how to use it. Still, all about effect. Of course, theatrical... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Beautiful day among the grandkids

There have been seriously troubled times of late, with a more-than-averagely rebellious 14-yr old... Things reached crisis point yesterday afternoon, and both kid and parents were once again running through routines of reactions that have never worked before, and are not likely to work now. It all runs it's ruinous course in a house where there is precious little privacy, and everyone in the house can hear pretty much every scold, threat, defiance, reasoning, etc that comes out at these times.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Intimate Angles

There are a few places in the kids' new house that are not full of boxes. Taking shots around them creates some nice close-ins that show some of the charms of this Tudor-style cottage. http://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

There is Someone in the house down the street.

We have no idea Who. But it is Someone who requires around a dozen secret service guys, in and around the house, watching adjoining streets that open to the one where the house is that Someone is visiting. Or something. Very mysterious, very spooky, if they didn't look like a convention of Mormons in their identical dark suits. The suits are not very special, and maybe charcoal grey... So, to our disappointment, obviously they aren't the Guys in Black looking after extraterrestrials. Daughter... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Time and busyness!

Seems like there has been little time to write, at least, at times when I feel any urge to say anything. But getting used to the pace, getting used to shuffling between the new household of the NZ Daughter and husband and dogs and cat, and the established one of MD Daughter and family... helping with the settling in, and hanging out with the kids... They have been taking me out to dinner to some very nice places, and this morning, when I wobbled downstairs, there was a birthday card, and a... 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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