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   It is 70 degrees in Kansas City today but the wind gusts are horrendous…. The local news has been focused on a 50 plus acre grassfire NW KC…hundreds of fire personnel called into fight it.  Thankfully it is in a remote area without houses and habitation.  It made me thankful that I’m a lump… Read more

In less than a month, my birthday cake will hold up the weight of 60 candles.  In my experience, women more than men seems to cringe when the zero is added to a number representing years since their birth.  For me, I’ve always paused to contemplate and then moved on because deep down inside it… Read more

This half week has been a whirlwind of good decisions and bad decisions and highlighted my impulsiveness….that part of me I really try to control. It all started last weekend when Kim told me that some mutual friends are selling their pickup and travel trailer because they are through camping. We have been talking about… Read more

I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for a couple of months and now it is Saturday night and the weekend is almost over.  Mike and Kim and he and I Have been friends for many years.  Actually He and Mike graduated together.  Kim and I worked together for nearly 30 years.  We have shared… Read more

Sitting in Jax’s room playing with Legos yesterday, I looked up at the wall    and realized how much I love color.  I think there are color people and people who don’t give it a moments thoughts.  I’m very sensitive to color and it can change my mood or make me feel safe.  I have… Read more

Judging from the last month, one would never know that we have a lot of experience heating with wood.  Every place we have lived has been equipped with either a fireplace or sealed wood burning stove…in one of our houses, the Windows would have to be open in the bedroom upstairs because the heat from… Read more

He had to remind me yesterday that two years ago we made a significant move….and really the only thing that has been lost, lost not just misplaced or waiting to be found in the bottom of a tote, is a cord for the wii. Wuuuuuut  He suggested last night that we pull out the wii… Read more

   Walking northbound on Ormond Beach, he and I found this historical marker.  I was anxious to get back to the room and Wikipedia to read about the history of the Nathan F Cobb shipwreck. Just for the record, the sign on the seaward side says the same thing…I know because I crept, splashed and got… Read more

   There were two chairs and a table outside of each hotel door at the Daytona Beach Resort …. Reading reviews, there were some complaints because there were no partitions on the balcony providing privacy….just a long expanse of chairs, tables and balcony rail…it was perfect.  When I wasn’t ON the beach, this was my… Read more

Fresh as a daisy 203 steps to the top.  Pfft Fitbit recorded 23 floors   She’s not reading anything….she’s willing her legs not to give out and reminding herself that if he is going to do it…..SHE’S GOING TO DO IT! It was pretty amazing at the top!  This is the first lighthouse we have… Read more