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Monday, November 28, 2011

Bitter With the Sweet.

About three weeks ago my grandkids other grandma, also named Pat, was sent home from the hospital after a long battle with cancer. She came with a morphine drip, barely aware of where she was, but smiled and embraced those who waited. She was, as always, surrounded by love. Her daughter Dawn, my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

What's on TV?

I reached my saturation point for whining in the first ten minutes of “Property Brothers” this morning. I wanted to reach out and smack the spoiled rotten wifey who kept saying she couldn’t see what the brothers were describing about improvements they could make. It’s just so ugly, she’d say, I just... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Things your kids tell you 25 years after they've left home...

The Great Snake Capers Guy and his friend John B. were sixteen years old when they got a free six-pack of Bud from the barkeep at the Corner Tavern. Well, according to Guy, John’s the one who pulled off the great snake caper. He hadn’t intended to get over on the man, he just stopped in to try and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Long trip in a small car...

Depending on who's there, any car can be too small. Even a Greyhound Bus can feel crowded, apparently -- did you see that story about the bus driver who pulled over, got out of the bus halfway between Memphis and St. Louis, and locked her passengers inside? Then she took off walking. Apparently she... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Lunch

Adora's twins were very different from one another. Her daughter Fila had the habit of hanging back, looking a situation over for a long time before getting involved. This morning at the meadow, her daughter watched from the edge of the clearing as her brother, Bhok, leaped in and joined with the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

'Sup wi dat?

For more years than I can remember, it's been a tradition to get up way early on Thanksgiving and get going with prep for the big meal -- usually on the table around 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon, following hours of tantalizing smells of turkey and other good stuff baking and simmering. So today I'm... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

'Tis the season (sorry I neglected that email)

These days I'm on a kick where I don't remember to check the email. Apparently I've been doing this a while -- just checked my Blogit email and found some warm and fuzzy emails from weeks ago, cheerful greetings from dear friends here in Blogitville. That put a grin on my face. This morning started... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

I Am The Clay -- by Chaim Potok

It's copyrighted 1993, but I had not seen this book. Found it yesterday when I made a stop off at the Library to donate some magazines to the free table and check the shelves for work by favorite writers. Even though Books-a-Million has opened, I still prefer the atmosphere of the used bookstore at... Sign in to see full entry.

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Clutter or not, here I come. All-ye, all-ye outs in free!

For more than a year now, I've had the flat lid from a big cardboard carton lying like a tray on top of my dryer. It's a catch-all for any number of odds and ends. Never mind that I needed the space for folding, things in the tray were waiting for my decision about what to do with them. Items... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Mama sings in the kitchen...

Lazybones, sittin in the sun, never gonna get your day's work done sittin in the noonday sun... Mama sang that at times to us kids if we were idling around the kitchen, picking on each other for the heck of it, or if I had my nose in a book when there was weeding to do or wet wash to hang on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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