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Duke’s Mixture 05.2023

  hApPy HuMp Day!! Well, friends, I jinxed myself when, in my last post, I bragged that my blog was being cooperative.  Allowing me to not only save blog post drafts but publish, too.  How ’bout that!!  But then I started working on today’s Duke’s Mixture 05.2023 post and started having all the same old […]

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Sentence a Day 03.2023

Welcome dear ones to Sentence a Day 03.2023 – my monthly review of life in one run-on sentence a day. Today I am bringing you my sentences from March.  The good, the bad and the ugly. We’ve continued to have some hiccups in my hopes for a gentle 2023 but we’re still standing.   SENTENCE […]

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03.2023 TELL US ABOUT: Scent

  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 bloggers to respond to […]

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Where Bloggers Live 03.2023: My Favorite Website

  Howdy friends!! Thanks for stopping by for this month’s Where Bloggers Live 03.2023: My Favorite Website. This month finds the gals and me each sharing our favorite website.  I think it is safe to say my favorite website will be one all of you are familiar with…drum rollllllllll… Am I right?  Is there anyone […]

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Title Talk 02.2023: What’s on My Bookshelf

Sweet readers, it’s been many moons since I lost wrote a Title Talk post.  That is a disappointment to me because one of the reasons I began to blog was in hopes of sharing reviews of the books I read in this season of life.  I had also hoped to share lesson plans and activities […]

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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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05.18.2023 Leslie, Leslie quite a mess-y, how does 05.18.2023 Leslie, Leslie quite a mess-y, how does your garden grow...

Check it out on the blog. Joining friends from all over the planet for a #globalwritingchallenge "Let's Talk About..." - gardens. 

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05.19.2023 Weekend getaway to Austin, a belated bd 05.19.2023 Weekend getaway to Austin, a belated bday celebration for my PC. Staying at the beautiful @bravahouseaustin -photos to come. 

Happy birthday,  baby. I love you so. May we celebrate many more years together.

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05.18.2023 After much ado, one post published. It 05.18.2023 After much ado, one post published. It is going to snow!! Joining the gals for Tell Us About 05.2023...gardens and gardening.

Now, is it too much to ask that my second link-up post publish, too. Stay tuned! Ageless Style link-up, I'm looking at YOU.

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05.18.2023 What to do when your blog post is all r 05.18.2023 What to do when your blog post is all ready but won't save or publish and your @WordPress says your laptop is not connected to the Internet but it is. And your @acer is running at 158*. 

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05.05.2023 Road trip, baby. Monahans, Texas to w 05.05.2023 Road trip, baby.  Monahans,  Texas to watch @ehstroopers play Frenship in the regional game for the State Championship. Stopped by Balmorrhea State Park for a dip on the way. 

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05.05.2023 Happy anniversary (and Cinco de Mayo) t 05.05.2023 Happy anniversary (and Cinco de Mayo) to these lovely birds.  So glad they found each other in orientation at UTEP. They have weathered some storms. But like a good Timex watch they've taken a licking and kept on ticking. 

I love you both and those precious babies you've cooked. 

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