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Category: Critters
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Yep, it's the weekend! And, man, am I glad to see him….her…it. Whatever. I'm just glad it's Friday! I'm playing hooky from work (with permission) to attack my to-do lists and try to perform miracles. Yeah, yeah, I know I was off Wednesday because of the snow, but it kept me so mesmerized that I…
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Max is stretched out behind me on the livingroom rug – it's a "hand-me-down" we received from a friend of a friend, so I'm not concerned about him shedding on it or anything. He's not an indoor dog and from where I sit here at the computer, barely two feet away, I can smell him…it's…
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Rain still dripped from the roof this morning, melting out of the sky. But I couldn't be totally heartless, and Lord knows I'm in no danger of melting myself, so I bundled up and took my critters for their walk to the curve. I think our little one-day vacation made them appreciate our morning adventure…
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A rainy morning. I can hear it, a steady hum. I can see it through the window, a steady stream cascading through the hole in the gutter where one day there will be a pipe diverting the rain to the pond. One day. There aren't many mornings I decide not to walk. Days of snow and ice…
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Ah, we're such bad "parents"…here we are on the coldest morning since 1996 – it got down in the teens last night – and we had barely a spoonful of seed left for Frankie's breakfast. I gave him a couple of nuggets from Max's canned dog food to tide him over – he loves those!…
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This will not be a 'big' Christmas for us, as in piles of wrapped gifts under the tree. We're already buried under college loans and (yes, I hate to admit it) credit card debt….all those family trips and Fiftieth Birthday get-togethers are catching up with us, I guess. No need to bury ourselves any further with gifts we don't need.…
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"To love our neighbors as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality." – John Locke Dennis lived in Long Hollow first – years and years before anyone else thought it was appealing to live down a dirt road. He had…
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Christmas is the season of joy, but it's easy to let that joy get buried by to-do lists, exhaustion and financial stress. Yesterday I re-discovered a sure-fire way to bust that joy back out of the rubble…skipping! I really have no idea why the notion to skip entered my brain, but there I was on our…
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