Month: November 2009
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Thank God for closets even if they do need cleaning
I proposed a fresh coat of paint for the house. My resident repair man agreed. “If you clean out that closet, I will paint it,” he said as I stood in front of the linen closet which held every except linens. I hauled out toys, crafts, notebooks and family mementos and lined the guest bedroom…
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Friends have big thanksgiving
Neither man saw the empty log truck coming their way as they pulled out onto the highway after picking up meat from the processing plant. The driver of the log truck saw them stop and assumed they had seen his truck but the pick-up pulled out in front of him. The logger said he did…
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photographic connection
Thunder rolled and lightning flashed outside my bedroom window. Time to try taking a picture using lightning. Standing in front of my second-story screened bedroom window, I waited for the next long flash of light. As the explosion rolled across the valley, peering through the view finder, I snapped one shot. That’s all I dared…
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Flexible family life
Family life assumes flexibility. Just when my husband and I anticipated a few days alone, the Sherwood family took turns coming down with a lingering fever and listlessness. I could hear the onset of the illness in my daughter’s voice so I volunteered to house her pre-schooler for a couple days. Well – that is…