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Continue reading →: Photo Friday, Boxing Day Edition
Usually, the day after Christmas, aka Boxing Day, I vegetate in front of the television, watching EPL football matches. Alas, there is only one fixture today! So we started the morning with a a pleasant short walk. I spotted this mango tree in full bloom. Ken walked a bit longer,…
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Continue reading →: Where’s the Cheese?
I hope that you are all having a relaxing, enjoyable holiday. Our Christmas has been really wonderful, from a beautiful candlelight service at our church last evening with lots of music to our traditional Christmas morning breakfast of cranberry-apple pie. We continued our practice of trying to guess what was…
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Continue reading →: A Successful Culinary MarriageI have to admit that I’ve only eaten gazpacho a couple of times, and I wasn’t really thrilled. I’ll admit that, to me, soup is a hot dish. Also, I think my initial impression was that gazpacho was just eating V-8 juice with a spoon. I know that I should…
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Continue reading →: A Simple Christmas
A post showed up in my Facebook memories this morning that I must have written on a Sunday, because it referenced a sermon at our church that morning on the spiritual discipline of simplicity. And I quoted one of my favorite lines about Christmas, which comes from the Garfield Christmas…
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Continue reading →: Early ChristmasIt has been a different sort of holiday season for us. I had not expected to be dealing with orthopedic issues through these weeks, but it is what it is. Fortunately, the cortisone injection into my SI joint that I received last Friday appears to be having a positive effect…
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Continue reading →: What’s in Your Cart?
List your top 5 grocery store items. There are any number of ways to interpret this prompt. At first, I thought it would be really simple to answer. Then, as I started to think about how Ken and I shop, I realized that I could go in several different directions.…
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Continue reading →: Photo Friday
I haven’t been walking this week, as my back issues have flared up badly in the past couple of weeks. But this photo popped up in my Facebook memories recently, reminding me of our last trip to Key West, in December 2017. It was only three months after Hurricane Irma…
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Continue reading →: Tiny TreatsThis weekend was a really busy one. As I mentioned in my previous post, we had our early Christmas celebration for Luke, before he goes to spend the holidays with his dad and paternal grandmother in New York. And no, this is not the post about that dinner—I promise it’s…
