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So much anger of late. I’ve noticed it for years with the ascent of DJT to the pinnacle of political power in our country, and yet, it seems as if the anger people clung to is still hanging on despite … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Perfection
For several weeks I have had lofty goals of writing for the blog. Admittedly, I allowed myself to get distracted and pulled in to doing other tasks, both the unpaid labor of house-and-yard work and the paid things of content … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Community Building
We’re over halfway through 2020 The Year of the Pandemic, and I’m more than halfway through my goal of reading 80 books by the end of the year. Many of these books, no matter the genre, mention the importance of … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: A Measure of Success
Yesterday, without really thinking through my day, I got dressed for the office and packed my lunch for the day. I wore a white suit (yes, white after Labor Day – I’m a REBEL!) and brought leftover Cauliflower & Chickpea … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: The Unfriending
The other day I came across an article about 26 things people should do every year which struck a chord with me. Number eight on that list was “purge”. Purge all the things, contacts, people, whatever – anything that doesn’t bring you joy. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Fancy Coffee Friday, Life, Personal
Tagged Facebook, Fancy Coffee Friday, friendships, ghosting, life, personal, rantling, relationships
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Fancy Coffee Friday: With a Little Help From My Friends
I’m not a Beatles fan by definition, but this song came to mind during a recent email exchange with a dear Internet Friend of mine. I was responding to a series of recent events they’d gone through and in my … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Life, Musings, Personal, Writing
Tagged 4-H, Americans, culture, enhance, fika, fikabröd, friendships, group participation, groups, hinder, interest, isolation, Master Gardener, modern technology, National Junior Horticultural Association, NJHA, Sweden, Swedish, The Beatles, With a Little Help From my Friends
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Fancy Coffee Friday: I only needed a bra*
It is safe to say that I hold shopping for everything other than food and beverage in the same stead as things like pulling out a sliver, having a cavity worked on by the dentist or vomiting; these are all … Continue reading
Sunday Morning: Sometimes you just need to get away
The hiatus. I think every blogger and writer ends up taking a hiatus from time to time. I took mine, and perhaps I’m still taking it; that is something on which I’m still not certain. Life came at me like … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Life, Personal
Tagged Beekeeping 101, Bees Knees, BlogHer '14, camping, chamomile tea, cocktail, Costa Rica, Farkle, gardneing, gin, microburst, resiliency, resilient, songbird, Spanish, Sunday Morning, The Naturist Society, therapist, Type A, Valborgsmässoafton
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Sunday Morning: When are you “old enough”?
Yesterday morning I had to run errands and my first stop was at my friends R & M’s house to drop off eggs as M is one of my “egg pimps”. They were in the middle of a kitchen improvement … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Life, Personal, Writing
Tagged alone time, electrical engineer, fencing, middle age, old enough, panels, power, solar, time, valuable, value, yardwork
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Sunday Afternoon: Friends, firewood and freezing rain
It’s good to have friends. It’s better to have good friends. Ultimately, it’s awesome to have great friends who want to come out to your place on a Saturday afternoon to play with chainsaws cutting down trees, driving a lawn … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged friends, friendship, good friends, great friends, hauling firewood, life, lumberjack, lumberjacking, oak wilt, splitting firewood
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Musings of the Amusing Muse 