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A Little Big Anticipation, With A Big Little Dread

What are we looking forward to this year and what do we dread? The year is young, but TODAY is about BOTH! No other real plans this year, except for in a couple of weeks, but that is tied into … Continue reading

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What’s Keeping You Busy This Week?

“FREE” week! Yeah, right! I’m anything BUT free this week. School starts for the Granddaughters, with the last trips to Cheer and practices before the school busses step up and be the shuttle instead of the grandparents. Last ‘last-minute’ gathering … Continue reading

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Heartstrings

A whirlwind around me again lately and here I was without an idea about writing for this ‘free’ week. By Tuesday I was so busy, I couldn’t even worry about it; I had a number of errands to do in … Continue reading

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Sum,Sum, Summertime!

Topic this week: How does our routines change during the Summer? As resident foodie here, that is a big change during the warmer months: food. Soups and stews, casseroles and roasts are just too warming and heavy for the hot … Continue reading

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A Year of Loss and Finding

This week we are reflecting on the past year and I thought mine had been fairly uneventful, until I took stock of it. We lost several  members of the families including  a fair number of extended family members. Most were … Continue reading

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Car-ing, Not Caring

Open Week and I don’t have a guest, no stories or articles published recently,(want to see my newest rejection slip? It’s a badge of honor; I’m ‘out there’.) And I don’t want to talk about a work in progress. I … Continue reading

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Spring?

Spring…it needs to get its act together. I will admit we had Spring-like weather here in central Kentucky all Winter long, but it isn’t the same. We had little snow, few cold days that only came in short bursts and … Continue reading

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Another New Year Already?

By Jeff Salter  I don’t know where a year goes. When I still worked full-time, it seemed as though hours would last for days … and days could linger for weeks. Now that I’m retired, it seems like months zoom … Continue reading

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Weather…or Not

Winter. I waited until the last minute to write this and I think I am just going to wing it. I had in mind some things I was going to say, but winter hit with a vengeance tonight,(Thursday). Except for … Continue reading

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Salute to Stepdads

Hello! I am Tonette Joyce. You may have seen me put my two cents in here quite often, so often in fact, that the other Foxes and the Hound figured they may as well put me to work as your … Continue reading

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