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A little snack to hold you

January 27, 2010

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No time for much of a post tonight. However. You will remember that Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia and Susan, my co-Mother-out-law, came to visit recently. They forgot their key, and I was not at home when they arrived. OK, there are only so many places I can hide around here. Off to […]

Stress fractures in the drumlins

January 22, 2010

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I mentioned that last weekend was lovely, which it was, and that we’ve been having a stretch of pretty weather, which we have, but now we must face other facts. Susan, Mother of the Lady Alicia, is a real estate agent with a lot of experience dealing with the current mess in the market. As […]

A whiter shade of pale

January 20, 2010

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We can’t spend all our time playing on the tubing run.  We must spend some time experimenting with our cameras.  Scott Thomas has posted a new photo challenge over at Views Infinitum.  White.  I can hear Jack Bodis groaning already.  It’s enough that we have to live in it.  Do we have to look at […]

A beautiful day in the neighborhood . . .

January 16, 2010

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No getting around it, a little sunshine does wonders for the northern spirit.  We have company, and this afternoon we were all over at Barnes Park enjoying the little dab of balmy weather.  Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia went cross-country skiing on the groomed trails with Lucy the Sleek.  Susan (mother of the […]

A Fence Post

January 7, 2010

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This all started when I saw an absolutely gorgeous image of a Kansas fence over on Anna and Preston Surface’s blog.  I wandered off on a digression about fences I have known and what they have meant to me, and perhaps to others.  Wooden fences, picket fences, Tom Sawyer painting the fence, wrought iron fences, barbwire […]

I am in love with an orange truck and the Cowboy and Miss Sadie are pretty fond of it, too

January 4, 2010

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You may recall that I wondered where all our snow was, given the dire predictions of at least ten inches of the stuff late last week. For a time I thought it had been misdirected to the north of England, but in due course it was delivered to Torch Lake Township, just in time to […]