Really missing my dad

This time of year is always a little sad.  It is the 37th anniversary of my father’s death.  I was 19 or 20 when he was killed by a drunk driver on the evening of January 30th, revived, and lived for 1.5 days, then died on this date.  I was living in Jerusalem at the [...]

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9/11 thoughts

We have not really begun to catch our breath from the onset of the beginning of this school year.  Lots of things have changed for us in a relatively short time.  My job has shifted its focus, and I am now lucky enough to have the same schedule every day, which is quite a novelty, [...]

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Summer birthday fun

Breaking a tradition this year, we did not go on the fireworks boat cruise for Old Bristol Days, which is always the second full weekend in August.  It was an awkward weekend to schedule a party, because of everything else going on around here, but we really wanted to celebrate John’s 60th birthday, which comes [...]

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A little bit of this and that

I should have been working on this over the winter, but there just never seems to be time.  So in the last few days while our grandson was home with us (a stomach bug), I worked on some cheese equipment organization, some new flavors of cream cheese, and ended up making a bigger mess than [...]

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Lost that blogging mojo…

Temporarily I hope.  The last week or so has been hectic and just a little bit nuts.  When the day is over and it’s time to clean up from dinner I am more than halfway to bed.  In the summer break it’s always a game of playing catch-up from the school year and then suddenly [...]

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A dismal grey week

punctuated by a few brighter moments…  last night I went to our monthly Salt Bay Treadlers meeting and we had a great time.  We had a lot of wonderful food and a lot of laughs.  Pam of Hatchtown Farm brought along her bottle lamb (because she has a cast on her leg) so we had [...]

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Bear update

Bear is doing a little better on her new meds and has perked up considerably since we had her to the vet last Saturday.  She seems to be more alert and taking more pleasure in things, so hopefully she is as comfortable as we can make her.  We took her to the vet this morning [...]

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Vacation begins on a low note

We have known for awhile that our Lab, Bear, is getting old.  She has really slowed down, and has lost a lot of strength in her hind quarters over the past year or so.  When you are an 88 lb. dog and you are almost 13, losing weight and slowing down is just the way [...]

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More blizzardy days

This one wasn’t a surprise, but even so, yesterday at work we were wondering aloud at lunch what the result would be.  I don’t know why snow days are so special, but they are!  It’s found time, when you really can’t go gadding about.  Staying home is enjoyable.  So today we are playing with Thomas [...]

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It’s a white one!

We did get 3 or 4 inches of snow on Wednesday.  I got to work (my farthest school, 26 miles), began to enjoy the staff holiday breakfast, just to get the word that we were going home.  It was an adventure, but not too bad.  The snow really began to add up late in the [...]

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