we live in podunkville, america. this is deliberate, not because we don’t like people or neighborhood-living, but because “out here” we can do so much more when owning more than a postage stamp sized property. we can stretch our limbs (important with three active boys), see thousands more stars on clear nights, and raise animals
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their love was what novels are written about, turned into movies that open in the summer and make all who watch it wish they had a fairytale beginning, middle, and ending in their own relationships. it was high school, there was a chance meeting at a water fountain and the rest is history. it was
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…you find ways of avoiding their baby pictures for fear of falling into a nostalgic tailspin. you look at every single one of them any way and still distinctly remember of the first minute you laid eyes on him. …you look at your family of rapidly growing boys and wonder what the teen years will
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i’ve already blogged about our fabulous day in the city last saturday, but i haven’t yet told you about the fun evening we had the night before. the marquiss clan invited us over for dinner and game night friday night. we then spent the night since they’re only a few minutes from downtown where we
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techinically, we’re much closer to the city of Butler, which was recently named one of the 10 best small towns in the U.S. according to the Smithsonian magazine, but today, i’m referring to Pittsburgh (which also has its ranking in a popular magazine lists), the city in which i grew up. i still think of
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no, this isn’t a post about the Queen and Her Jubilee celebrations this week in London…although i was quite impressed with the glorious pageantry that the royal family put on the river thames today. i’m talking about our queen bee. i checked the third hive today and found larvae right away – they bees and
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we planted our garden this week just in time for today’s long rainy day. tomatoes: large, roma, and cherry (grape tomatoes were nowhere to be found – we’re still hunting for the plants) pole green beans pole lima beans sweet red peppers a few hot pepper plants cantaloupe butternut squash acorn squash pie pumpkins sugar
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