slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
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This iris is confused. The highs this weekend are in the 70s. Lovely. I’m so glad this work week is over. Not much got resolved, but it’s good to be home. We went to Sandy’s work party tonight which always has a good spread. Looking forward to getting outside this weekend as well as spending…
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Susanne and I participated in an adult spelling bee tonight at a local brewpub. I have middle school PTSD resulting from my spelling bee experiences in 5th-8th grades. I won’t go into it, but I went to the state bee three of those years, pretty much because it pleased my mother. My anxiety was through…
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Sometimes you have to backtrack and correct, and that’s okay.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…
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Correction: NOT blue jellyfish. These are called “By-the-wind sailors” (Velella velella), a much better description! Thanks, Joe.
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So, yeah. I’m really not feeling the urge to blog, so I’m not worried about it. The holidays are hard enough. I did take a few photos this past week, so I’m spacing them out and postdating them on the days I took the photo (I think.) Post-dating? Pre-dating? Whatever. Spending tomorrow on my own…
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…
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As promised, here is the audio link to my friend JoJo Hammond’s ReverbNation page, which has the song that she played at my mother’s memorial service. She composed it on the morning of the service, inspired by my mother’s last words. I Hope You Have a Good Life by JoJo Hammond
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It snowed today, but nothing stuck. It was just pretty. The crystal ball gazers say that we’ll get several inches on Wednesday and everybody is excited and checking the forecast every few minutes. We drive the Yankees crazy.
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Had to yank out the one going around the top of the spine, and I’m going to rebind the coptic stitches, but I’m pleased with the brown caterpillars across the spine. Wood we snagged from down the street last winter when a neighbor took down a dead oak tree. Ready for cold weather!
slowly she turned 