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Inventory Reduction
It’s Sunday which means it’s also laundry day. And it’s my job to sort the clothes according to whites, light colors, and dark. Earl is in charge of the actual washing, drying, and folding. Personally I don’t understand why he
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The Sweater
Today is Earl’s birthday, and I finished the sweater in time. In fact, three days ahead of time.
About fifteen months ago, I told Earl I’d make him a sweater vest in the color of his choice. So we went
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Missing You
Today would have been my Mother’s 106th birthday. She died in 1996, so I’ve had ample time to get over her passing.
What I’m missing is that Mother’s younger sister, Alice, and I would always reminisce about her on her
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Ironing As A Phobia
I really don’t like to iron; still I iron all outerwear for both Earl and me. If you return to February 2024, you’ll find blogs about this. Not the dislike of ironing, but the compulsion to do it. And the
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Birthday Gift
When I told a friend what I wanted for my birthday, she laughed.
“Why didn’t you ask for a cruise or jewelry or some special restaurant?”
Because we’ve done all those things. At eighty years of age, I’m staying closer
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The Party’s Over
It’s been ten days since I blogged. In that time, my close family gathered to celebrate my birthday (I’m partial to birthdays.) and my cousins in Denver buried my beloved Alice, their mother. It’s the sweet and the bitter in
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Taking a Break
I’m taking a break for a week or so to remember Alice and celebrate my own birthday, one of the ones that ends in zero. It doesn’t seem appropriate to write about things more frivolous – like the Chicago Cubs
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Alice
Alice died today. She was 99 years old and doing well when she fell the beginning of April and broke a hip. She was my mother’s younger sister, nineteen when I was born.
Now there is no one left who’s
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Happy Anniversary
Today is Earl’s and my fourteenth wedding anniversary, although we lived together fifteen years before tying the proverbial knot.
In the first fifteen years, we buried four parents, were in business together, and found a mutual love in cruising. We
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Short People
This morning Earl sent me something he read on Facebook. It made me think of the song “Short People,” written by Randy Newman and released in 1977. It’s a snarky tune about the so-called unappealing characteristics of short people.
Verse
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