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  • CHANGING WEATHER

    CHANGING WEATHER

    Lots of new roofs going on lately. We put a new roof on our little duplex rental and it seems to be holding up under the weather. The roofers are busy. It took our contractor six months to get a roofer to do the job. Gary is still picking up trimmings and roofing nails. The…

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  • SIN OF OMISSION

    SIN OF OMISSION

    “A man has been arrested after antisemitic abuse was directed towards Jewish children on the London Underground. … Wearing a cap and hoody, the man is seen in the video threatening a man off-camera after he tries to intervene before a woman in a hijab – Asma Shuweikh – confronts him.”—The Guardian The Muslim woman is…

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  • QUOTABLE

    “If you think a woman can’t beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day.”—Amy Klobuchar

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  • PRINCESS

    PRINCESS

    I have tried to stay away from making political comments here. (Readers “unfollow” every time I do.) But Prince Andrew. This is not about the disastrous interview on the BBC where the royal admitted to being “too honorable” but with no memory of abusing a child. I did not watch the interview. I cannot avoid…

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  • DECLINING BOBS

    DECLINING BOBS

    In the satellite photo, there is an ancient white Volvo parked in the driveway and a waterbed tipped up on its edge where both have been for at least a decade. A surveyor was here the past few days, locating property lines and updating contours for the new owner of our neighbor’s house. The sale…

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  • NaNo ISSUES

    NaNo ISSUES

    Am I the only one who finds the new NaNoWriMo site clunky, uncooperative, and downright annoying? Communication in forums is impossible (I find nothing when I click that link) and with buddies seems challenging (a message from a buddy waited to be read for a week because I didn’t notice it was there). In fact, if this…

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  • CHEESE

    CHEESE

    My husband and I both grew up with Velveeta, which is not really cheese at all. I remember my father loving blues and sharp cheddars, but my brother and I were fed toasted cheese sandwiches made with horrible pre-sliced white bread, Velveeta, and margarine. That “cheese product” melts like glue. I am embarrassed to admit…

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  • PROGRESS

    PROGRESS

    We each found a piece of sea glass this morning on our walk. “Our work is done,” Gary said. It is a common line between the two of us, a joke, but also reflects our sense that gathering abandoned graham cracker packets and finding pretty things is our excuse for walking. Recently, while we were…

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  • THANK GOODNESS

    THANK GOODNESS

    Three layers of vanilla sponge with strawberry jam and a lot of strawberry buttercream flavored with jam and powdered organic freeze-dried strawberries! She liked the cake, though she was not expecting pink frosting—and to think how hard I worked to make it both pink and tasting of strawberries! (I cropped her from the photo to…

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  • SUNSET PIG

    SUNSET PIG

    …you might kiss one. A group of at least a dozen people stayed next door this past weekend. (Gary says they were likely Swedish because of the white caps and running about barefoot on the sand and even in the water in November.) They took over the depression where Gary had his fire last week and…

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