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B and I have wonderful neighbors next door. Hemingway, our Highly Lovable and Extraordinarily Intelligent Pooch, would be lost without them. But more specifically, their dog, Riley.
This is the first day they met…when Hemingway was about 8 weeks old:

Hemi was about 5 pounds here. (He is now a strapping 17 or 18 pounder!)
Riley stays [...]

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There are certain things that make me happy…inexplicably happy. I’m not talking about big, costly things. I am talking about those small things…or moments that make you sudden say, “Aaaawwww!” or “Aahhhhhh!”
 

Driving on a newly paved road…smooth!
When you wake up in the morning and realize you had the yummiest sleep [...]

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Texas…Summer…days hitting at or above 100 this week.
Enough said.
Air conditioning is something you take for granted…until you don’t have it. And if it happens right in the middle of summer in Texas, BOY, does it matter!
How did the pioneers do it? Do you think people were just used to it? Or did many people died [...]

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My mom once told me that when I was a baby, I was ‘toddling’ into everything. Curious little thing. Haven’t changed much.
One day, my dad had been painting with oils and forgot to put up his things before he went to work. I, being the precocious child that I was, had to investigate his workspace. [...]

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My Little Dust Buster

I don’t know where I read it, but it said “Dull women have immaculate homes.”
I should have this tattooed. It’s my mantra. It’s my war cry! I am Woman, see me walk by the cobwebs!
Anytime someone comes over and I imagine (generally women) giving the house the “once over” and an almost imperceptible, disdainful sniff, [...]

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And so it begins…

Well, I can check one more off on my summer ‘to do’ list-start a real blog of my own…a diary really because I keep saying I will…and now that I have no excuse about time, I better do it. I did have one somewhere else…but in the two-three years I had it, I [...]

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