Explosion

This weekend fall exploded all over Randy and me.  We attended two seperate pumpkin festivals, bought pumpkins at an orchard, purchased mums and gourds at a garden farm, and took a bike ride through tunnels of trees just starting to tinge yellow around the edges.  I find the visual images of the weekend so much more [...]

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The Amish are Wrong

So it turns out that I’m completely addicted to electricity.  Nine measly hours of an Ike induced black-out reduced me to a primal state from which Randy had to rescue me, luring me out with the promise of pizza.  At first it was kind of fun.  I sort of secretly revel in the thrill of minor catastrophe [...]

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Queen of the Kibble

I bought dog food today.  I think I may have gone a little overboard.

Dog Food: 40 lbs
Dog: 12 lbs
So this should last us for a while.  I normally buy the smallest bag on the shelf but was seduced today by the per pound price.  You know, the one they put up in the corner of [...]

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Sisters

Friday night my sister, Kelli and I both let ourselves be humiliated by a video game.  Our husbands were both out doing other things so we hung out at her house and ate apple pie a la mode and then cracked open her brand new Wii Fit, a video game invented to lower my self esteem [...]

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Rainy Day Play

I was so relieved to wake to the sound of raindrops pattering against the roof above my bed this morning.  Partly because I have become lazy this late in the summer and would prefer nature do my plant watering for me.  But also because I’m just plain tired of the sun.  I love sunshine on [...]

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