This morning I remembered for the first time in decades that in high school I entered a contest, WHAT THE MERCHANT MARINE MEANS TO ME. The prize was something like $25, which meant a lot to poor teenage kid in Detroit.
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The storm predicted to hit us hard, didn’t.
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I will miss football Sundays. It’s a great excuse to take off Sunday afternoons and relax.
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We were dealing most of the week with great piles of snow.
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One task we had been putting off for almost two years: we went through the refrigerator freezer.
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Mingus began to look under the weather last Friday.
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With the holiday tree given to the woods to turn slowly to compost and the ornaments packed away, the living room is back to normal, everything in its usual place.
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New Year’s Day we take down our beautiful tree, perhaps the prettiest we’ve ever had.
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Willow has fallen in love with the tree.
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We decided to once again hold our solstice party, the first since 2019.
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Mice are coming into the house on a regular basis. There have been four huge ones this week.
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Submissions for my June juried intensive poetry workshop are arriving every day.
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Last year we had Thanksgiving on the porch in our winter coats with two friends. We could see our breath.Stuffed
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Friday, Woody discovered a leak from in a water pipe over the furnace.
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We had our first and then almost immediately our second frost.
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This week began with trying to get back to normal after the extended power outage. But troubles will not cease.
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The week started with the weather channel and the local news telling us a big storm was coming,, a cyclone bomb, a nor’easter with high winds.
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I’m currently off FB because nitpickers kept driving me crazy complaining of typos.
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I’m going through a permanent bad hair day.
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I happened to remember an author whose books I enjoyed perhaps ten or fifteen years ago. I wondered if she’d published anything recently. I went on Amazon to check: nothing at all.
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