Erin wins ‘The trip that sucks’ contest

About 6:00 the phone rang at Jon’s. It was Erin wanting to know what other flights were going out of Midway (Chicago) to Detroit that night. I tried to get her itinerary to come up on line but had no success. Seems she was stuck in Chicago as the plane she was supposed to take [...]

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Heading for home, sort of

The day started as usual with the sound of Andrew trying to be quiet, a skill not quite mastered. Turning on the light to look for something doesn’t help, but if it’s the effort that counts, he’s quiet as a mouse. Jon and Fawn returned about 4:30 yesterday afternoon while the boys were in the [...]

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Burma Shave, where are you when I need you?

The first mistake was made when I didn’t look at a map and just took the Mapquest directions at face value. They seemed straight forward enough: I5 south to the 101 north toward Aberdeen and Port Angeles for 117.8 mile. take exit 104  (Race Street) .7 miles to Lopez, trun left and the church was on [...]

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The Rummage Sale

With ‘clean the garage for a good cause’ as my mantra, I took a ton of stuff over to the Friends in Deed rummage sale storage locker. Then, I ended up taking a couple more loads over on Thursday, the set up day at St. Luke. With the first load drop-off, I noticed a bunch of [...]

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Oh Canada!

It seems to take longer between posts to be consistent and come up with something to write. I tend to think I have nothing of interest to say, which is usually the case. I prefer, at least in my head, to be interesteing, witty, insightful or something above average, not boring dribble for my audience [...]

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