Happy birthday Dad! – Tomorrow is my dad’s birthday. He’d be well over a hundred years old. I still miss him even though I was a child when he died. You have made a mark in life if you are … Continue reading
Category Archives: Family Tales
Random 5 for June 26, 2022 – Hands, feet, snakes, emails, birthdays
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A weird sign of aging – One of my hands is typing faster than the other. It scrambles my words. I had a hard time figuring out why my letters get flipped and that’s the only explanation I have. I … Continue reading
Random 5 for May 1, 2022 – May, jobs, facial recognition, trees, covid
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Can it really be May? – April turned out to be a cold and windy month. That didn’t stop the flowers and trees from starting their blooming season. It did, however, curtail my walks to my happy place. Hoping for … Continue reading
Random 5 for January 9, 2022 – Ice storms, covid, kitchen, birthdays, electronics
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Storm – We are hunkered down waiting for an impending ice storm that should have started already. I hustled out to Starbucks to get my fix early. There is nothing like an addiction to help overcome my fear of driving. … Continue reading
Family
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It’s been a busy week with family that we haven’t seen since well before the pandemic. The granddaughters grew some but are not towering over me…yet. Soon! I shared my magic place and we got a great picture (no shut … Continue reading
Normal times or is it?
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Our area is moving into “normal times” or as close as we can get. Our restrictions are expiring and our infection rate is low. Everything is different though. It won’t be like it was. Some places closed permanently (that’s my … Continue reading
Another one goes
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I was one of 50 cousins and the youngest of all. Most of my cousins are 10 to 20 years older than I am and many have passed. This week another one died. I wasn’t close to this particular cousin … Continue reading
A great gift
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Some families take pictures all the time. Even in the age of real film, they had albums devoted to specific occasions and closets full of super 8 films. They celebrated half birthdays and quarter birthdays. They celebrated tooth loss and … Continue reading
More moving stories – Three more things I learned
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Attics have secrets – In the back corner of the attic, we found a box of income tax returns going back to 1996. No, you don’t need to keep them back that far. They got pushed out of sight and … Continue reading
Odds and ends, Thanksgiving style
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It’s the day before a really weird holiday in a really weird time. We are also downsizing possessions in a way we’ve never done before. I don’t know why I’ve kept some things. Ok, they were pretty but useless. I’m … Continue reading
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