Lux et umbra vicissum…

I hate ragweed season. I tried to dig out our ragweed garden before it hit, but I only got maybe halfway through it. It’s all along our fence line on one side. Of course, we also seem to be growing some rather more interesting nasty plants. There’s, of course, the lovely thistles. My favorite, however, […]

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You’d think if I determined I had the body of a goddess I’d be pleased. It’s just tough luck that when I get a goddess body, it turns out to be modeled after the fertility goddesses…

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I so much want to call someone and chat right now.  It’s not that I have no friends in the world, it’s just that the two or three I’m closest to aren’t home right now.  Cursed jobs that take my friends away from their telephones! My back is bad again.  I twisted it a couple […]

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A new friend came to visit today! Here’s a couple of pictures of him… Though we enjoyed the visit (the kids loved it!), we decided that our friend should probably be moving along his way. Joel and I then spent about a half hour chasing him around the yard trying to catch him in a […]

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As a reward for reaching their “advanced reading” goals, the kids at my daughters’ school were allowed to take part in a “Fear Factor” event that the staff set up out in back of the school. Now, this is an elementary school. They couldn’t do anything too traumatic or dangerous. So it was mostly stuff […]

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I brought home a lot of things to sell this time to help support our adoption efforts (mostly baskets and other woven articles like trivets and coasters), but I also brought home two lovely souvenirs for myself. One was a broken toe. It was doing much better the other day, but yesterday I had to […]

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Our bedroom’s a bit of a mess, but that’s not so different from normal. 🙂 I don’t have enough donations to stuff two large suitcases like I was hoping to, so I’ll take two medium-size cases to make things easier on me. I’ll be able to fit almost all of my personal belongings in my […]

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There are several things I’d like to blog about, but I’ll have to do it another time. For now, I’ll just summarize: * I managed to get all of our plants and seeds in the ground over the weekend except the carrots. I didn’t have time to do them, but I hope to get them […]

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listing to port – writing out your to-do list until it drives you to drink

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1. Biting toes can only get you so far.  Prancing around pretending to bite toes will get you so much farther.  Especially if you don’t slip up and actually bite them in the process. 2. NEVER pee on the floor.  Play, yes.  Sleep, yes.  Pee, no.  Neither should you poop.  These things should be done […]

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