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In the spring I got a tattoo. It was tattoo number three, but it is more obvious than the previous two, and has received more attention. The design evolved from a doodle, and once it became a full drawing I figured it was one I could live with on my skin. I know that the…
Trips to the library are always interesting. Observations, conversations, and methods of directional movement keep the weekly trip entertaining. This week it was a bike ninja sighting, talking about the magic and science of maple keys falling, and riding invisible bikes. Even though all my children have entered double digits they still ambulate creatively. They skip,…
I have had dogs since I was thirteen, and in all those years I have never, not once have had one of those dogs skunked. Then there was Hazel. As of this fine and rainy evening Hazel has been skunked four…FOUR…times. Obviously, my lovely, sweet, Golden Retriever is not one to learn from experience. I…
My children live pretty self directed existences. They have a lot of freedom to choose the things they want to do and when they want to do them. The only things I insist on is that they help around the house when I ask them to (which is occasionally accomplished without a lot of yelling…
My truck may never get the rough and tumble life of a rural or a working truck, at least it won’t through its time being My truck, but yesterday I got mud on my truck and it made me feel good. (I think there might be a country song in there). Bouncing through a pothole…
I am all for letting creatures be. I actually mostly don’t discourage creatures. I have a service berry bush that I planted for the birds. I have milkweed in the garden, that although I did not plant it, I have kept for the butterflies. My strawberries are a favorite with the local chipmunk and he…
I try not to let fatalistic ideas colour my thoughts, but when it comes to me and wearing white (actually, any pale colour) fatalistic is inevitable. I am doomed. My parents have joked for my entire life that if you were to dress me in white and place me in an impeccably clean room, I…
Due to unplanned circumstances we found ourselves needing to replace the family vehicle. Being a family of six plus two dogs, our family does not have a lot of selection (Ooo look! We can pick this minivan or…that minivan). On a lark we thought we would look at a pick up truck. Maybe trucks can…
A beautiful warm day and I am looking for reasons that will keep me outside instead of tackling the ‘need to do’s that are waiting for me inside. My blank edifice of a fence calls to me, “Deani….Deani…look how blank and boring I am…you MUST remedy this….Deani…Deani…it is spring, I need some colour…” (I figure…