This will be the first Thanksgiving where I am doing all the cooking…and I am looking forward to it. In previous years I’ve always been intimidated by the mere thought of “hosting” Thanksgiving. I’m kind of surprised that I am looking forward to it. Is it my renewed joy of cooking? Or cooking in this [...]
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David and I were coming home from his final basketball game for the season (YEAH!) when we started talking about video games. He really wants a PS2 game called “God of War” but it’s rated M for mature. David asked why it was rated M. I explained that it was for a number of reasons [...]
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Those orange things in the box would be the elusive clay pigeons. You can only hunt them while in flight. But the damn things don’t have wings, so you need a launcher…hence the weird metal thing mickey-rigged on a tire rim. Once you’ve shot the clay pigeon, you needn’t clean it, only make sure, when [...]
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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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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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So David, nephew Cameron, and I are sitting in a movie theatre in Dickinson, ND. We are waiting for the new Harry Potter flick to start. Somehow or another, the two boys get on the subject of snowboarding. David turns to me and says, “Hey, Mom, guess what me, Cameron, and Jake are gonna do [...]
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To me, Summertime equals Cuba Libres. A Cuba Libre is basically a rum and coke with juice from a lime wedge. A lot of summer weekends were spent on the back patio with Dad at the charcoal barbeque with tongs, for coal turning, in one hand, and a Cuba Libre in the other. Grampa would [...]
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Yesterday was Brian’s scheduled Monday off work. We had some errands to run in Dickinson so we were all up and out the door early so we could get everything done, but also get home at a reasonable time and not feel like the whole day was shot. During the leisurely drive to Dickinson, Brian [...]
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I’d really like to throttle my husband right about now. I’m taking apart my king-sized Tempurpedic bed. If you have any experience with Tempurpedic beds you know they are HEAVEN to sleep on, but hell to move. Unlike most mattresses, they don’t really have a frame of any kind. It you lean them up against [...]
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My brother, Porter, is visiting. He and Taya are kind enough to help out with getting us ready for the garage sale next weekend. One of the things I was going to put in the garage sale are my dolls, Barbie, Ken, and Tuesday Taylor, from when I was a kid. I had been saving [...]
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