Scenes From The Marksberry House

3:24 a.m., dark, quiet bedroom
(Kimmie’s Thoughts) – “Woah.  Something bit my elbow.  Is Einstein in here?  What’s going on?”
(Randy’s Thoughts) – “Why is there an elbow in my mouth?”
Kimmie – out loud: “Randy……did you just bite my elbow?”
Randy – out loud: “………..yeah…….I think I did”
Laughter ensues.  Zipper sighs and tries to get comfortable again after [...]

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Its All Poison Ivy

Readers of this blog may be weary of seeing any more hiking pics, but when you’re training for the mouse, you have to do a lot of it.  This time we went to Natural Bridge in central-ish Kentucky where Randy dragged me up gazillions of steps and hills in the name of fitness.

Luckily, the climate [...]

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Adult Book It

No….not adult book store.  Get out of the gutter.  As most of my friends and family know, I love pizza like many people love fine wines and gourmet chocolate.  I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t my favorite food and the times are few and far between when I turn down the chance to eat it.   So, upon [...]

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Book It!

If you were a child in the 80s or the parent of a child in the 80s (and probably 90s – I stopped paying attention) you are probably familiar with the Pizza Hut Book It program.  There was nothing better than collecting the last of the required five star stickers in exchange for the five books you read [...]

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Sacajaweiner

Zipper-Cam 
This weekend I was lucky enough to catch up with always-on-the-go Zipper Marksberry and ask her all the hard-hitting questions YOU want to know.  In typical fashion, she was out on another adventure Saturday and I was invited to tag along to beautiful Boone Cliffs park.  I learned a lot about the dynamic pup and [...]

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My Favourite and My Best

Randy and I are eagerly awaiting the time when we will extend our family to include little ones without fur – a.k.a. children.  So naturally, we spend time discussing our philosophies on child-rearing, trying to blend our values and our own childhood experiences to come up with a strategy we can both get behind.
During strategy discussions this [...]

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Canoe + Lake = New and Improved Zen Us

Who knew we had a lake only 1.9 miles from our house?  And by “our”, I mean Randy and me -  not necessarily you.  Allthough you might – you should check.  I seriously didn’t know we had one until about a year after we moved here – Doe Run Lake is well hidden.

Its also a [...]

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