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Gracie’s in the picture too. Let me know if you see her. We were out on the Reno dike yesterday. Cold, windy, the sky was gray and it was almost raining. We were the only people there - ours ...

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Jim got new shoes today. They are made in USA. He also learned today that when the eyelets the laces run through wear out, you can turn the eyelets to an unworn location. How about that?

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… by Ann Patchett. “Franny opened the car door and picked up her father’s feet from the floorboard, swinging them gently out and then taking his arm. “Count of three,” she said, and together the...

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here Don’t know if I’m saving enough money not drinking pop to buy a house though.

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Calendar says so. It’s been spring now for a couple weeks - the second quarter of the year - the Equinox thing. Plus next week is Easter. See above and below for brand new fresh crocus pho...

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..... and its cousin. Twitter told me Syliva Plath said this: I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here. I wrote an entry here this morning, left it for a while and then made it private. ...

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And a little more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_III

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My grandkids in makeup for “Beauty and the Beast”.

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… I went back to the place I was staying away from. It was the same as when I left it. Not better, not worse. I am the same person I was before too. Life is like that. It goes on. Whether ...

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… do you ever run your life as if it’s a narrative? Example: I just topped off my coffee cup and turned off the coffee pot. Then I ran a brush through my hair and sat down at the computer. ...

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.... things about me that I won’t have to make private because they are too revealing. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. That was quick. And it wasn’t very revealing. I’m sitting at the table with Str...

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Good dog acting too.

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I am reading Alice Munro stories. Dear Life. I had read them before - in the book I suppose, maybe just in the New Yorker but it feels like I read them all at once - like in a book. They are d...

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Ok. I guess I’ll try to write. I have had ideas but they are gone. I have books. Joyce Carol Oates’ Middle Age which I just finished and recommend highly. Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir ...

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Have you ever left a negative review of a restaurant on line - at Facebook for instance? How fussy a customer are you? Do you feel you’re giving the place an opportunity to improve by p...

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I am self-indulgent. I am lazy. I like to be in bed doing nothing. I like to eat. I like to drink pop. I like to sit in my chair and do nothing. I like puzzles. Pen on paper puzzles. I like to do...

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Above the fold on the front page of the Decorah Shopper are two ads. Well six total but two caught my eye. The Cresco Medical Clinic, Regional Health Services of Howard County announces new expa...

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Note: This is a little looser than what I would write to post here. It’s more inexact and maybe I said some nasty things about people that I would at least twice about before posting here. Mayb...

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Barking By Jim Harrison The moon comes up. The moon goes down. This is to inform you that I didn’t die young. Age swept past me but I caught up. Spring has begun here and each day brings new bird...

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We aren’t much for gifts at Christmas. We tend to look for excuses not to give them and are grateful when we do not receive them. But… Last night soon after my younger son and his family arriv...

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.... if this works for you. https://web.archive.org/web/20121130094148/http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D243982&entry=22233&mode=

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.. in the middle of the night to do what people do when they get up in the middle of the night and to tend the fire. And then of course I’m here. After reading a bit more about Henry VIII, the m...

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If I told you it wouldn’t be secret anymore. =================== I just put something up here to see if I had written anything on this date in previous years. I want to write a long rambling se...

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I don’t know if it will work but give it a try. If it does work, give it a little time. It’s a marvelous photo. I found it wandering around the ‘net this morning. It was an image associated ...

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It was at Marquette mid afternoon. It was late. It had to wait for a freight. with Santa. Santa totally understands that his function is to provide photo opportunities. He had some very h...

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