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You know, June, I wouldn’t have to keep replacing the fuse on this toaster if you would quit pulling the plug out with the cord. I seriously love this man!  I took this sweeper apart twice, cleaned everything including the filters and it still won’t vacuum right…..enter Ward who WAS downstairs hanging doors….using a tiny Read more

Like most other democrats, I’m still thinking about Michelle Obama’s speech at the democratic convention last night.  I’m feeling more peace of mind watching the democrats in action than I did watching the republicans….I’m one of those people who sits through and listens to each side of the argument as a confirmation in my own Read more

I’ve been agonizing for a few days about a trip to the DMV to register the Rogue….and just like the last time, it was painless.  I’ve decided that I need to delete my first two experiences there and change my attitude.  I’m only familiar with Iowas streamlined auto registration procedure…Missouri could follow Iowas lead and Read more

It has been so hot in the last few weeks that I cannot force myself to go outside and when I do step outside I’m unable to contain the audible grown followed by ITS SO HOT out here! It’s  too hot to walk Frannie down the street.  It’s too hot to walk around to find Read more

My problem is what facts are actually facts.  While I realize that the authors are going to sway an article toward their understanding of history, their current situations and their religious beliefs/color of their skin, I always try to sort through the rhetoric to determine MY validity to the written words…using my filter of religious Read more

The A. In the outline of my discomfort is when people don’t respect other people.  This is such a broad category but I can narrow it down a few subcategories. Rude and snarky with people you don’t know or don’t understand Rude and snarky because people lack empathy Rude and snarky out of jealousy Rude Read more

The last 6 months or after Christmas, I started slipping into an internal fear/unsettled/down mood.  I think it had to do a lot with his heart attack and bypass surgery…that feeling of none of us really being immortal.  With what we had been through in 2015, I didn’t feel I Was too far off the Read more

  After 42 years, I finally visited my alma mater on Monday.  It was just okay.  So many building changes …. Add a wing here, put a wall there…I only had a couple of feelings of nostalgia ….one was visiting the front main hall and the entrance to what used to be the front entrance Read more

With temps in the 70s after some overnight rainfall…in fact, other than Minnesota blood sucking mosquitos, we enjoyed cool evenings on the patio…. We drove 4 hours south to Indianola for a Slipstream concert at the Summerset winery….it has been said they he and I are Slipstream groupies….it is true…I really miss being able to Read more

It has been several years since we have traveled north of Des Moines on I35…particularly near the Iowa/Minnesota border…miles and miles of wind generators…such a beautiful site for a tree hugger! We spent a good part of the weekend with brother and sister-in-law in New Ulm, MN and Mankato, MN…..two of the cleanest cities I’ve Read more