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We had snow yesterday. Weather told me so but I thought I should wait to see if they were right. Maybe four inches. There was a lot on the car when I got off work. It slid smartly off the fre...

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I’m up a bit earlier this morning. I’m in the basement with the stove. There isn’t much fire left but I think there is enough to coax back to life. Temp is a positive 12. Wind 1 mph and hu...

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Not sure where the time went but it’s not here right now. Well except for the time that is here but that is not much. Coffee’s been reheated. I’m dressed down to shoes. I have a load of c...

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Today is the test of whether I keep doing this. Well every day s the test. It’s that kind of thing. It’s a day at a time thing. It’s a do it at your own choice thing. Anyway. Walkby therm...

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Just checked to see if I’d spelled ‘serenade’ right and I had. It’s not a word I use a lot. Google’s definition - a piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night un...

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Less early - less cold. It’s all of 25 degrees at 6 am according to the lazy on-line woman’s resource. Wind is 4 mph from the north and humidity is 76%. I’m in the basement. There is no fire t...

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Ah, if I finish this that mean three days in a row. There mornings in a row even. Google tells me it’s a positive 5 degrees. Wind is 11 mph from the southeast. I do not guarantee wind direct...

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… will be fewer and more sparse. They happen while I turn on the yard light and while the coffee gurgles. They happen while I tie my shoes and wonder where I left my coat. They happen while I a...

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I got up to go to the bathroom. House seemed quiet and cold and since temp is supposed to be low, I went to basement to visit the wood fire. The furnace had a fair amount of wood in it, but it ...

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald More of the Fitz is here. And while I was shopping for life I found this: An...

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Do you know anyone who has won significant money in a lottery? What did they do with it? How did it affect their lives?

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I should have asked you guys for some pointers but instead I went into it pretty dumb. But I took some pictures so maybe that makes up for it. The Coulee Region Chill played the Janesville Jets....

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i got home today at 2. Took a big nap starting at 6 or so and just got up and took a bath. At work today and just now in the bathtub I’ve been reading The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford - cute n...

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… is Ground Hog Day. Always six more weeks of winter… even though this winter has been mild in my neck of the woods. |~| The picture above just showed up in my email. It came from the son’s c...

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I found it on Facebook and I shared it there but for those of you who aren’t Facebook aficionados.... http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/brothers-recreate-childhood-photos-gift-mom/story?id=28611425...

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Here is a link to the story. There is a new theory on the internet about falling in love. It involves finding a semi-possible person - it goes without saying - and asking and answering a series ...

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http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

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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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