Category Archives: family and friends

May The Fourth – Quiet Thursday

Did a little grocery shop for Mom and me basics and some festive breakfast things for Saturday’s doings. Came home and scuffled the ground a bit but no plants arrived that needed planting and the ground is really too wet … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 29

In spring, bear visits. •
bungee cords were too strong but •
the lid bent in half. Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 4

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Sat in the front yard
watching the daffodils blooming
rather than the news Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day 1 2023

oh my god weather
the breathlessness of it all
under the dark clouds Continue reading

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Also found: Bill the Cat

This is the photo used for the “Lost Cat” poster in November 1990 when Bill and Maggie made a break for it. Maggie sat on the front porch waiting but Bill was eventually found in the next door neighbor’s barn a day or two later. Nervous times for all. The poster notes that he was about seventeen pounds at the time and get a load of those magnificent toesies! He really was a “best cat”. Continue reading

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