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Update 02.2023: Winter Goals, Bucket List & WOTY

Hello dollies!! Wanted to share how I have fared on my winter goals, winter bucket list and my WOTY so far.  Our temps indicate that spring is right around the corner.  Highs this week in the upper 70s…after a surprise snow 6 days ago!!  Have been working on this update for days and now that […]

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Sentence a Day 02.2023

    Welcome dear ones to Sentence a Day 02.2023 – my monthly review of life in one run-on sentence a day. Today I am bringing you my sentences from February. For a short month, it sure was a looooooong month.  We have had several hiccups in my hopes for a gentle 2023 but we’re […]

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02.2023 Tell Us About: Play

  Hello dollies!  This year my friends Gail from Is This Mutton and Deb from Deb’s World have come up with a new monthly blogging series  “Tell Us About…..” They are sharing cohosting duties with Mary Katherine from MK’s Adventures in Style,  Penny from Frugal Fashion Shopper, and Jill from Grownup Glamour.  This creative writing challenge invites […]

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Where Bloggers Live 02.2023: a Peek into My Pantry

Howdy friends!! Thanks for stopping by for this month’s Where Bloggers Live 02.2023: a Peek into My Pantry. This month finds the gals and me sharing a peek into our pantries.  In the case of my pantry, this won’t be an especially exciting post.  But a few years ago, I updated the storage in my […]

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The First Christmas without My Mom

Happy New Year, dear ones.  Is it too late in the year already to say that?  When I was still working, I was always a little ill at ease on that first day back to school after Christmas.  Everyone would hug and kiss at that first faculty meeting of the semester and wish each other […]

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Sentence a Day 01.2023

Welcome dear ones to Sentence a Day 01.2023 – my monthly review of life in one run-on sentence a day. Today I am bringing you my sentences from January, as long-winded as always.  Each month I tell myself to try to do just a couple of words for each day.  But I wind up writing […]

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In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...
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03.28.2023 And then this is going on in the backya 03.28.2023 And then this is going on in the backyard.  Finally, finally, our pool and deck are being made right. Thank You, God, for answered prayers.  Thank you, PC, for not divorcing me over my obsession with getting this fixed. 

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03.29.2023 The place is buzzing!! New roof...thank 03.29.2023 The place is buzzing!! New roof...thank you, @travelersinsurance and @servicioromero roofing. 

Thankful for the repairs and the means to have them done. Grateful to my PC for the working day in and day out to provide for us. 

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03.22.2023 Coming along. Today, the work on the de 03.22.2023 Coming along. Today, the work on the deck begins. I hope!! 

So looking forward to having our pool right!!

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03.16.2023 Watching the pool demolition from the # 03.16.2023 Watching the pool demolition from the #door ... one of the prompts from the #winter2023photochallenge 

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03.15.2023 This is the wall of our hot tub. Does a 03.15.2023 This is the wall of our hot tub. Does anyone have a guess what's caused this streaked, irregular, motled,  rough surface?

Looking forward to having all of the issues with our 2017 pool and hot tub FINALLY addressed. It's been a long fight.

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03.08.2023 While I love fall, I am thankful for th 03.08.2023 While I love fall, I am thankful for the hopefulness of #spring 

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