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Moms and the inexplicable choices we make

May 10, 2009

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A pair of robins have built a messy nest on top of the garage floodlights at the Writing Studio and Bait Shop.  The floodlights do not work, as ice dams wrecked the fixture and replacing it has turned out to be more of a project than I thought.  I noticed the mess hanging there and […]

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone who is tired of formal roses and winter

February 14, 2009

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These wild roses were growing along the banks of the Grass River a few summers ago, as they have grown for many, many years, and as they will grow again this summer. A friend and I were headed to a boat ride with some Loon Rangers—but I digress.  I’m fond of wild roses.  They grow […]

200 years later and still a hero

February 10, 2009

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Another birthday for Mr. Lincoln Thursday, February 12 will be the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, and I plan to celebrate. With the exception of Bonnie the Beloved of Bob, he is my favorite Republican. The deeper historians dig into his character, the more substance they find. Not that he didn’t make mistakes, or have his […]

Greetings from Katherine

December 25, 2008

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This just in from Katherine: Merry Christmas!!!!!! to all . . . .

People who light up the holiday

December 25, 2008

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You might think that the parents of grown children would get to sleep in on a Christmas morning.  Ha.  Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and Miss Puss roused me out of a sound sleep with the news that all of them wished to go outside.  Now.  Pull on coat over pjs.  Jam hat on head.  Put boots […]

Lights of Christmas . . . and bells, bells, bells

December 24, 2008

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I love angel chimes.  Always have, always will.  I love the little blue box that says “Made in Sweden.”  I love taking them out of the blue box and putting them together.  I love the candlelight reflected on the brass cherub cutouts, the bladed canopy that makes the cherubs go round and round, faster and faster, […]