tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92002514171854676962024-03-04T23:07:03.440-05:00Life in the 2nd half century...Who knew life after 50 would be so much better?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200251417185467696.post-31663999420211064572014-09-10T09:59:00.000-04:002014-09-10T09:59:13.875-04:00Gratitude....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know that watching birds feed is,</div>
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maybe, not the most interesting video.</div>
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this is heaven.</div>
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My sweetie and I are in a new home,</div>
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surrounded by beauty,</div>
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covered in love.</div>
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I'm so very grateful.</div>
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Hopefully,</div>
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I will be able to make sense of the past year....</div>
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they say insight only comes in retrospect.</div>
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I believe that must be true.</div>
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Thank God.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200251417185467696.post-24042412088152750332014-01-18T13:09:00.000-05:002014-01-22T14:24:57.816-05:00Movin' on....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Now that we have completed the repairs,</div>
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we are ready to move on.....</div>
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We have loved this house.</div>
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We have renovated, painted,</div>
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It is beautiful.</div>
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We love it.</div>
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do something </div>
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different....</div>
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The following photos are not mine, </div>
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but they are all wonderfully created.</div>
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If you need an excellent interiors shooter,</div>
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I know just the man you want to hire.</div>
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(email me for his contact info)</div>
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This is the Video Tour Link</div>
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<a href="http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/tour.asp?t=1090672&idx=1">http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/tour.asp?t=1090672&idx=1</a></div>
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Yes,</div>
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it will be hard to leave that BAKW!</div>
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I have sat there and observed the world for hours at a time.</div>
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<a href="http://www.sho.com/sho/homeland/home">"Homeland"</a> </div>
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but there are doubts.</div>
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It was simply one of the most difficult years we've had to endure.</div>
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Things are looking up though.</div>
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But, first...</div>
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Someone stole my other blog when I was cleaning up after the flood.</div>
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Remember</div>
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Not Yo Mommas Handbag?</div>
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named for my Etsy shop?</div>
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Handbags?</div>
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Yes,</div>
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well, someone stole it.</div>
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of a vacation somewhere.</div>
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Not mine.</div>
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(which will be re-opened as soon as we move)</div>
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<a href="http://ellensnotyomommashandbag.blogspot.com/">http://ellensnotyomommashandbag.blogspot.com</a></div>
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I can hold on to this one....</div>
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smiles!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200251417185467696.post-65476995796820011362013-11-11T10:37:00.005-05:002013-11-11T10:37:57.797-05:00Gratitude.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am grateful for all Service Members,</div>
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past, present and future</div>
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that make a huge sacrifice</div>
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for us all.</div>
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My brother went to Iraq,</div>
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I am so very grateful that he came back unharmed.</div>
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I love Sunflowers.</div>
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They always make me smile.</div>
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sunflowers......</div>
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truly.</div>
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However, </div>
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after many sleepless nights,</div>
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The front yard was trenched.</div>
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work</div>
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water is still coming in to our home.</div>
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usually, I find myself totally unprepared....</div>
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I am eternally grateful for coffee</div>
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I am so very, sincerely, honestly grateful for my sweetie....</div>
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Mr Blue Jay.....</div>
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bellwether that fall is well and truly here.</div>
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(I usually try to use only my own images in this blog, however the Blue Jay I saw today wouldn't pose, so this is a googled image)</div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">"She Let Go”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let
go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go of the fear. She let go of the
judgments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go of the confluence of opinions
swarming around her head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go of the committee of indecision within
her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly
and completely, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">without hesitation or worry, she just let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t ask anyone for advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
didn’t read a book on how to let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She just let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
let go of all of the memories that held her back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her
from moving forward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She let go of the planning and all of the
calculations about how to do it just right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t promise to let go. She didn’t journal
about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t write the projected date in her
Day-Timer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She made no public announcement and put no ad in
the paper. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t check the weather report or read her
daily horoscope. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She just let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t analyze whether she should let go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t call her friends to discuss the
matter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind
Treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She didn’t call the prayer line. She didn’t
utter one word. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She just let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">No one was around when it happened. There was no
applause or congratulations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">No one thanked her or praised her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">No one noticed a thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Like a leaf falling from a tree, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">she just let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">There was no effort. There was no struggle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It was what it was, and it is just that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In the space of letting go, she let it all be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
small smile came over her face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
light breeze blew through her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the sun and the moon shone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forevermore.</span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">I am sorry I do not know the author, it was not me obviously...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">smiles!</span></div>
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No, I didn't get to go.....but someone did!</div>
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These are the lovely roses that my sweetie blesses me with.....regularly.</div>
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THIS is the someone that enjoyed a trip to my favorite city on earth.....lucky dude!</div>
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I am equally blessed though, I managed to sneak in a trip to the beach last month...</div>
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HERE is where I sat my big fat butt, for days on end....</div>
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Do you see him?</div>
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Straddling the handle bar?</div>
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Trying to look all MACHO?</div>
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And non-chalant at the same time?</div>
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Yep, </div>
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that's Freddie.</div>
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Contrary to popular opinion....</div>
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Freddie ain't dead....</div>
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(sorry for the 70's song reference, I couldn't help myself)</div>
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Well, anyway....I was minding my own bee's wax one day, </div>
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visiting the local grocery, and there he was.....</div>
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bobbing his head up and down,</div>
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showing me that </div>
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scarlet neck of his.....</div>
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strutting his stuff all over town.</div>
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(well actually all over the handle bar)</div>
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Letting me know he was AVAILABLE</div>
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and </div>
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A CATCH of the FIRST order.....</div>
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(bobbing furiously)</div>
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I had to stifle my laughter,</div>
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didn't want to embarras him....no, </div>
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I am sure that some sweet thing came over as soon as I left the </div>
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scene.....</div>
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Soon, there will be little freddies all over the grocery parking lot!~</div>
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smiles...</div>
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What a week!</div>
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Things are so much better today....</div>
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the promise of tomorrow,</div>
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and </div>
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hope....</div>
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Now</div>
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back </div>
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to </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200251417185467696.post-63690326626674999482013-02-26T15:28:00.003-05:002013-02-26T15:28:44.237-05:00Ever have one of those days?<div style="text-align: center;">
You know the type....</div>
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the one</div>
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where you wake up at 2:57am and </div>
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cannot go back to sleep?</div>
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the one</div>
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where you are having your first cup o' joe</div>
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and you hear something odd in the bathroom </div>
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down in the guest room?</div>
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AND</div>
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it turns out to be a sewage back up?</div>
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the one </div>
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where you are afraid to take a shower and make the </div>
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sewer back up worse.....so you go down to your office</div>
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and start on much delayed work......and </div>
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(wait for it....)</div>
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you notice that the floor under your desk is damp?</div>
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No, ....make that soaking wet?</div>
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(thank goodness it wasn't sewage)</div>
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Rain coming in from the other side of the foundation wall!</div>
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You know, the one that was taken completely back to the studs</div>
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JUST LAST YEAR...</div>
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water proofing (?) painted on the cider blocks, Drywall replaced, </div>
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interior paint whole room, new shoe molding.....</div>
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ALL WET......</div>
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the one</div>
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where you go to get your handy dandy carpet cleaner </div>
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to SUCK up the water out of the carpet in your office,</div>
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and EVERY SINGLE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT BOX</div>
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is between you and the carpet cleaner....</div>
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the one </div>
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where you finally get the carpet cleaner out of the closet</div>
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and start the SUCKING of water.....</div>
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and after emptying the reservoir several times</div>
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it doesn't seem to be getting any drier?</div>
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Yeah....</div>
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that's the day I have been having.</div>
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I think I will go take a nap...</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200251417185467696.post-1022154912312567252013-02-14T10:12:00.001-05:002013-02-14T10:14:48.820-05:00An enduring love....<div style="text-align: center;">
We all want it....</div>
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We search for it...</div>
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We pray for it....</div>
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We would do just about anything to find it....</div>
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An </div>
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Enduring </div>
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LOVE.</div>
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I think this sums it up;</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;"> I will love you no matter what. </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;">I will love you if you are stupid, </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;">if you slip and fall on your face, </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;">if you do the wrong thing,</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;">if you make mistakes, </span></strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;">if you behave like a human being - </span></strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="color: #dc291e;">I will love you no matter.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #dc291e; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;">--Leo Buscaglia</span> </div>
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(I miss Leo B. tremendously)</div>
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(especially in Valentines Day....)</div>
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Any who...</div>
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my sweetie and I were talking to a young man this morning</div>
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about replacing a window</div>
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(our BAKW, as a matter of fact)</div>
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and he noticed the </div>
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roses that were sitting on the kitchen table.</div>
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"Would you like to hear the sweetest story I have ever heard?"</div>
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What?</div>
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This was the very las thing I expected to hear out of a window salesman.</div>
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Yes?</div>
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So he started to tell us the story of his wife's grandfather who died </div>
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approximately 2 weeks ago...</div>
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close enough that family were still staying with her grandmother.</div>
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Yesterday. the doorbell rang and there was the florist with </div>
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roses for grandma, from grandad.....</div>
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bought months ago,</div>
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paid in advance,</div>
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for years to come,</div>
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the card read;</div>
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"I will love you, eternally"</div>
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A sweet story, but I have heard something like this before,</div>
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(the cynic in me said...)</div>
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Then I looked up at him,</div>
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and he said to us</div>
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"The best thing about this story is that when my wife told me this,</div>
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she said "That is exactly how I want you to love me"</div>
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And as he shifted in his shoes,</div>
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he said</div>
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"And that is exactly what I am going to do, because I am the luckiest man in the world"</div>
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Now, that part of the story is what choked me up....</div>
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smiles.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dogs- miss my basset hounds, Sam and Fred and covet my neighbors' dog</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Essential Start To My Day- Coffee, no-fat 1/2&1/2, sugar 1 tsp, not a morning person....not so much.. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Favorite Color- changes regularly, initial response-pink, then purple, and of course there is always blue....ah, blue.....</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Job Title- Mom, Boss, Head honcho, Chief trash collector, Cook, Cleaning Lady...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kids- One son, 2 stepsons, One step daughter all grown up and moved away.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time You Wake Up- gratefully, when my body says so, most mornings</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you care to share your story, please let me know when you will post. I would love to see your responses.....AND, gratefully, I was furnished with a list you can copy and paste, so here it is;</span></div>
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We attended a wedding briefly before the new year began...</div>
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a daughter of friends....</div>
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friends that cook!</div>
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much gratitude.....</div>
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I celebrated a 20 year anniversary this year that reminds me</div>
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Thank you all for your words...</div>
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of a family who recently lost the dad,</div>
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there is a mother and two small children</div>
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also,</div>
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that I had my very first "date" with my sweetie....<br />
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Easter,</div>
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Christmas,</div>
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all religious holidays</div>
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blessed....<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thanksgiving,</span></div>
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to show </div>
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GRATITUDE!!!</div>
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Now that's my sort of holiday.....<br />
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Eat lots of turkey,</div>
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get stuffed,</div>
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sit back watch football with the family....</div>
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Who couldn't be grateful for that?</div>
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Also,</div>
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while fixing all the goodies,<br />
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I think about how very blessed we are in the</div>
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United States of America.<br />
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Thank Goodness for those<br />
brave souls that<br />
fought to hold us together as a country.<br />
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Men and women that established<br />
towns, churches, fellowships,<br />
communities...<br />
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Men and women that explored the west....<br />
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All people who put the greater good in front of their own needs,<br />
or opinions....</div>
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Freedom</div>
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no,</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">F</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">R</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">E</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">E</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">D</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">O</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">M</span></span></div>
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Freedom to</div>
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love,</div>
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disagree,</div>
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travel,</div>
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work,</div>
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play,</div>
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create,</div>
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repair,</div>
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we are truly a fortunate people.</div>
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I am no "pie-in-the-sky" optimist,<br />
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no,<br />
I tend more toward the cynical point of view.<br />
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But Thanksgiving that's a no brainer!<br />
Good food,<br />
Good Company,<br />
Good times,<br />
smiles!</div>
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