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From the Des Moines Register: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/life/2015/01/18/meet-two-real-bachelor-farmers-iowa/21971505/?hootPostID=%5B%2773b7c96a45e979b1187bc055b128ab5b%27%5D

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I came across this offer of employment and living arrangement. Sounds like a good time, doesn’t it? Too bad is was almost 6 yrs ago. Oh well. We live in the here and now. At least I think ...

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It’s 7 am, Saturday morning, ten degrees below zero. I have been up for an hour or so, mostly in the basement, playing, working, dealing with the fire and reading The Sportwriter by Richard Ford....

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This has been a long week and there is still a day of it left. Hours were varied. Monday 6 - 2:30. Tuesday 8 - 4:30. Wednesday through Friday 6 - 2:30. Next week we work 6 - 2:30 too. We had ...

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Would you rather work four ten hour days or five eight hour days? Give supporting data and opinions, if you please.

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When I finished Salter’s Light Years I went back to the front and read a long introduction by Richard Ford. It was a good piece of writing itself and it lead me to look Ford up. He has an inte...

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At some point I should go back to my lists and rescue the things I haven’t done and make a new list out of them. I remember a few off the top of my head - the damn piano the damn dictionary dog ...

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Thursday Apologies for last night’s complaint. Or was that last year’s complaint? Either way I’m pretty much over it. I have moved on. Nothing has changed except my perspective has altered a ...

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Just realized the entry I wrote last night had been saved as a private entry for no good reason. I just changed it to public so if you want to go back and read it please feel free. This is new...

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Tuesday. I’m sure some of you recognize me in my cremation garment. It’s the insulated hooded sweatshirt that my kids bought me for Christmas one year when they were both still in school. Sinc...

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Monday. A pretty good day for checking items off the list(s). Found my cremation garment. Jim found it upstairs in his room. It was at the bottom of a basket of his important papers. How it ...

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Sunday. A few pictures - of Christmas and the puzzle. Katie likes to feel the puzzle. The family - John looks a little disgruntled - it was not a posed photo. Gracie and the puzzle story. W...

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That would be Friday and Saturday. Friday afternoon we started on the jigsaw puzzle. This is it. It is a remarkable puzzle. The engineer is entranced. It’s about two thirds done. (I got it at...

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.... you are all I’ve ever wanted .... That doesn’t mean I want you and I don’t have you. It means I have you and I’m grateful. This is my son’s Twin Cities suburb. I think there is weather mag...

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What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before? I rode Amtrack. Not a very long trip but it was very pleasant. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next yea...

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Christmas eve and Christmas day. Are a little hard to separate. Let’s see. Yesterday I slept till half past noon. Of stayed in bed anyway. Then for the rest of the day I did pretty close ...

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… was yesterday. I honestly took my first nap of the seventeen days. So I guess I can cross that one off. I also with Jim helping and making me do it sent out half a dozen Christmas cards. I al...

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Reaching the moment of truth. Maybe house kleening isn’t that much fun anymore. This morning I felt like a was teetering on the brink. A breath of air would send me over the top or back down the...

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Was Sunday. I did not do much. I: 1. Called LBH. 2. Had lunch at Fayze’s. New item on menu: Par-Fayze - yogurt, fresh fruit and granola. I have a feeling the wait person makes/assembles so...

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… wasn’t a lot different than one of seventeen except I didn’t take any pictures. What I did do: 1. Watered my poor deck plants that I’d brought in the house. 2. Cleaned, dusted, washed, and holi...

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Today was a pretty good day. Here’s what I did from the lists: 1. Talked to the sman. First on the list. Note well but don’t question. 2. Did laundry… as if that’s special. 3. Swept basement f...

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After 4:30 this (Thursday, Dec. 18) afternoon I do not have to go back to work until 6 am on January 5, 2015. I’ve been making lists of things to do: List one: 1. Get in enough time on the comput...

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I didn’t work today. I could have but I said no. The job I would have worked on isn’t much fun though I might have enjoyed it once I got started. The 5 am punch in seemed a bit extreme to me. ...

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The show ran from1965 through 1968. Cosby won three Emmys for lead actor in a drama. Culp was nominated for the same award each year.

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The movie! And still photos! The Canadian Pacific RR’s Christmas trains are staffed by volunteers - including the musicians who entertain at all the stops. The girl singer is Kira (or Ker...

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