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View from the porch

Wednesday morning, here at several thousand feet, on the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere.  But not to worry.  Spring is technically a couple of weeks away yet.  So anything could happen, right? It snowed about 4 … Continue reading

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Then–and now. Majorly depressing, eh?

Aquarium of the Pacific at Long Beach (see the sunglasses, sunshine, etc, etc, etc)     California Adventureland My young Padawan in training.  May the Force be with us all!!! (Yes, I made her eat apples and carrots too.) (OK, … Continue reading

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Things not to do so that you don’t get shot dead by some wacko packing heat.

I’m compiling a list, so I may have to revisit this post as the list seems to keep growing.  Fancy that. Things not to do so you don’t get shot by a psycho, wacko person carrying a gun: 1.  Don’t … Continue reading

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Visitor of the day. Well, almost anyway.

We spied this one through the front window, just standing there for the longest time.  We couldn’t figure out what he was doing.  (I am making the hugest of huge assumptions here in stating the moose was a “he.”  Because … Continue reading

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Worrisome

The National Science Foundation completed a poll (2200 respondents, which, mind you is a microcosm of a microcosm of our world, so I’ll give you that, but seriously even 220 respondents with these replies should be worthy of worry) and … Continue reading

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Oh dear me

So I’m in the middle of reading an article/story about…wait for it…the hopeless romantic, Richard Nixon. I know. It is totally rocking my world.  Maybe that’s not quite the correct phrase.  Let me try again. It is completely upsetting my … Continue reading

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Well. It could have been worse. Really.

The dear darling diva I live with informed me yesterday, after the game was over, “I’m a Broncos fan.” I bit my tongue until I was certain blood was running out of the corners of my mouth.  Then I took … Continue reading

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This just in! God is a Seattle Seahawks fan.

I know, I know.  Who would have thought?  Especially all of those crazy Denver Broncos fans who thought that absolutely, without a doubt, God was a die-hard Orange-and-Blue wearing deity, most probably placing a few bets on the good ol’ … Continue reading

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So I’m thinking this isn’t exactly what that wise man from oh, say about two millenia ago, would have wanted to happen. (I’m just sayin’.)

It seems that several children were publicly shamed in a Utah (Uinta County school district to be exact) school lunchroom because there was an outstanding bill for their school lunches. The children, AFTER they had been through the line and were … Continue reading

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1)I misspoke and 2)He didn’t really just say that, did he?

Well, technically, if one must get all technical and such, I mis”wrote” not mis”spoke.” In my previous post, I mentioned Dr. King and his legacy and what I am attempting to pass on to my daughter and my shortcomings in … Continue reading

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