HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM “SMALL TOWN” NORTH DAKOTA!! Halloween in Mott is very different than what I am used to. The local weekly paper that comes out every Monday came out last week with an odd boxed blurb on page 2: Trick-or-Treating from 4pm to 6:30pm (or after the football game) Dinner to follow for those [...]
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Since moving to North Dakota, it’s been fun using Facebook. It’s been a way to stay in touch with friends from Vegas…BUT…More importantly, it’s been a means to reconnect with childhood friends. I’d written, on this blog, about how much I would really love to reconnect with my friends that grew up on Murietta Avenue [...]
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David was climbing into bed so we could study for his Social Studies test the other night. As he is climbing up onto the bed he says: “Oops, my butt cracked and air leaked out!” Shortly there after I got a whiff of the air that leaked out…it was what another friend used to call [...]
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Brian with his “Sassy” new to us, Ford truck. His color choice would have made his Dad proud, LOL! OK…Car shopping in North Dakota is completely, COMPLETELY, different than shopping for cars in Nevada. I think we purchased 6 vehicles over the 18 years we were in Nevada. Those that we purchased from dealerships (all [...]
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Does it make me a bad resident to be glad to see the hunters leave? The bad thing is that they are checking out early because we are having unseasonable weather and they are afraid of some huge storm rolling in and they would be unable to get home. I realize that they bring money [...]
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Well it was a crappy Monday…A crappy Monday to beat all crappy Mondays! Brian had his first Monday off in months. He had planned to go to work and put on the new tires he’d ordered for his truck. While his existing tires weren’t bald, the tread had worn down and he was driving on [...]
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Just couldn’t resist snapping a picture of the puppies, snuggled up in front of the fire. We had been unable to get our fireplace started…But then we haven’t had any heat either. Did I mention the temp has been in the 20′s? Hmmm…I might bit cold for the furnace not to be working. Brian initially [...]
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I’d been reading last night…long after everyone had gone to bed. My eyes got drowsy and I found I was reading the same paragraph over and over. Definitely time to go to bed. I called, softly, for the dogs…knowing that if I didn’t take them out one more time, they would wake me to go [...]
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