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Category: My Country Life
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It's another Friday night, another wide-open weekend ahead of me. Tonight there's a cribbage game in the kitchen, a fire in the woodburning stove, and music in the air. I'll probably watch a movie later. But I have so much I need to do, and want to do, by Sunday evening! I know in a blink the…
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Saturdays are for getting eight hours of sleep…making muffins…drinking coffee on the back deck, visiting with Max, Charly, and Frankie while they eat breakfast…running with Rick Steves through the streets of Athens (me on the treadmill, him on TV)…cooling down to Three Doors Down…moving the laundry around…drinking more coffee while paying bills, blogging, checking email,…
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Tom and company…Max (in the shade), Charly, Frankie, Tom…Charly, Frankie, Max
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My heart raced when I saw the smoke billowing just off the back deck. Fire? Here in the hollow, in the middle of a drought, a fire quickly becomes a raging monster, destroying everything in its path, which is mostly cedar, and cedar EXPLODES in a fire, especially DRY cedar like we have now, and our house is…
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Christmas Day around here was lazy – centered around family and food. LOTS of food! We always have a traditional, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen breakfast on Christmas morning – bacon, fried eggs, and buttered toast. I ate so much that I still wasn't very hungry when Christmas dinner rolled around: non-traditional smoked brisket, chicken, and sausage. Of course, that…
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The dogs and I walked through a valley shrouded in mist this morning – it swirled up under my umbrella, making me feel a little silly carrying it (in my defense, I thought it was raining when I glanced outside before heading out because the mist condensate was dripping from the porch overhang.) Four white-tail deer…
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I totally apologize for my last post. Sometimes I drive myself crazy! The truth is, I talked to Tommy on the phone about his new job for almost an hour two nights ago. I've talked to my mom at least twice this week, my sister a couple of times, and three or four friends. …I'm working…
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Our little dusting of snow was exciting, but wouldn't you know, the Houston area had a REAL snowfall out of the same system that just teased us the other night. As my sister put it, "We got more snow than you…nah nah nah!!!" My friend Cliff shared pictures that his wife took - he was trying to find a safe route home…
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Last night Kendall ran up the stairs and out the front door. "Where is she going?" Tom asked me. I stepped outside to find out. "It's SNOWING!!" She was jumping up and down, and texting a mile a minute. Quite frankly, I couldn't see the snowflakes, but I trusted her – my eyesight just isn't what…
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Well, I made progress…not as much as I would have liked, but I have a teensy idea of an outline – the scene I should start with and how it will all work out. The problem is there is SO MUCH MATERIAL!! Now I'm thinking it would have been best to turn this into a…
Long Hollow 