Monday, September 23, 2013
Can You Smell It?
I can, and I haven't even baked it yet. I'm already reveling in the smells and tastes of pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies. Pumpkin coffee is "the thing" at Starbucks this season, and at Dunkin Donuts. I bought some fresh cinnamon sticks, so I'm ready to do something....not quite sure what...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
Living On The Edge Of The Woods
It is the summer's great last heat, It is the fall's first chill: They meet. ~ Sarah Morgan Bryan Platt Yes, In Missouri, they meet today at 3:44 p.m. when the equinox brings autumn. From here on out, the temperatures begin to drop and the days start to get shorter than the nights. Just knowing that...
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Blood Lust
Starting today, all of my sons are in their 50's. All except David, Son #4, who will always be 22 no matter what year comes. Three sons, each a half-century old, hair thinning, gray sprouting in their mustaches and beards, how do you think that makes me feel? As long as I don't look in the mirror, I...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
The Boring Cave
We got dumped on this evening, lots and lots and lots of rain that came down all at once, flooded my plants on the porch, inundated our curving road around the lakes and down past the runoff creek, and took away our electricity just five minutes before the CHIEFS / Eagles football game was to start....
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Did Blogit Cause My Pain?
Well, it wasn't one of these, that caused it: "I have seen these people," the Lord said to Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them." ~ Exodus 32:9-10 Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) Nigel Powers: [rubs...
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