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Meme Monday
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Meme Monday – Truthy version
It’s true, right? What else is true… Well, the weather here in California is disgustingly beautiful. As I type this, Sunday in the first few minutes of the Super Bowl, it is 72 and sunny outside. We went for a walk this morning, and commented on our overall good moods being out in such lovely weather. Of course, we are hoping for a wet March, since forecasts are saying the rest of February will be much like the last 6 or 7 weeks have been…dry dry dry. Ted’s brother has an orange tree, and brought us a big bag of oranges yesterday. Today I went out and bought an electric…
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Throwback Thursday
My BFF Rosemary sent me this picture a few weeks ago. Rosemary, her brother David, David’s girlfriend Stephani, and my brother Richard, we were all good friends. I am at David and Stephani’s wedding reception. I’m a bridesmaid, and that suntan tells you everything you need to know about why I go see a dermatologist every year now. My mom is smiling next to me, wearing purple, and Richard is a groomsman, and you can see him over my shoulder at the far right of the photo, with the beard. Richard was also very good friends with David and Stephani. David was the best man at Richard and Kathy’s wedding.…
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Wordless Wednesday
Photo seen on a Facebook page called ‘WoofWoof‘
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Meme Monday
Life isn’t actually quite this bad, but I’ve been looking for an excuse to use this meme, so here it is. Have I used it before? I feel like I have. I also hate that they didn’t use quotation marks at the end. One of the most frustrating things about memes, really. When they say what you want, but fail in grammar, spelling, or punctuation. Our Saturday morning started with plans, which for Ted and Maya meant going to get their teeth cleaned, and for me meant going to lunch with a friend…a COVID lunch, as she has an infant granddaughter that she is going to go help care for,…
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Wordle Wednesday
Are you playing Wordle, the online game that’s taking the internet by storm? I’m playing, and I really like it. I like that there is only one word per day, and that everyone gets the same word. It seems gentle to me, sort of like “The Great British Baking Show” (or Bake Off, if you’re somewhere where that term isn’t copyrighted). If you’re not playing, and you like puzzles, you might give it a try. It’s sort of like Mastermind, sort of like Hangman. You try to guess the 5-letter word of the day in 6 tries. You cannot use random letters, they have to be words. The yellow squares…
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Meme Monday
This weekend’s decluttering task was the kitchen drawers. It’s disturbing how satisfying it is to throw things away. I pick things out that I think Goodwill might sell, and put those in a bag to donate. I pick things out that I think I can give away on my Buy Nothing group, and I post those. But a lot of things are just plain worn out. Next weekend SHOULD be the cupboards where the pots and pans go, but I think I am going to skip that and come back to it. Our bathroom cabinets are a disaster and it is very difficult to find things. We have eleventy billion…
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Friday Randomness
Cutting straight to the chase, we are all fine. Maya felt pretty crummy last week, improved over the weekend, and is now back to her old self. Her symptoms were mostly her throat, and feeling tired, it never went into her lungs. Unfortunately, COVID hit another family member and his household. They live a couple of hours away and are not vaccinated. It hit them pretty hard, and they are slowly on the mend now. There is no convincing people about the vaccine, so we just sigh and hope for the best. Ted and I never tested positive. Perhaps we had it before Maya did (Ted had some symptoms that…
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Wordless Wednesday – Mountain Hike
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Thankful Thoughts
Blog friend Jonathan wrote a nice post the other day about things he was thankful for at that moment in time. I like the idea of setting aside the obvious things like family and so on, and concentrating on the more immediate things. Here, then, are 5 things I am thankful for right now. I am thankful that we were able to procure COVID-19 at home tests, so that when Maya started feeling kind of crummy, she took a test. Not thankful that the results were positive, but thankful that she found out quickly. I am thankful for the vaccines, including the booster, that we were able to get. I…
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Healthy Lentil Chili
Photo and recipe courtesy of Food Network. While cleaning out my kitchen cupboards last weekend, I came across a lot of lentils. Brown lentils, green lentils, black lentils, and red lentils. I make a couple of dishes with green lentils, like my lentil and tuna salad, and vegetable lentil soup. I have a yummy red lentil soup recipe with warm spices. This time, I thought I might make something with some of the brown lentils, and I wanted to make something that wasn’t soup. So I went to google and came up with this recipe for Lentil Chili. Looks delicious, and bonus, it’s vegetarian and no bread or noodles, so…
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Meme Monday – Omicron
Stupid Omicron sure seems to be making the rounds. I know so many people who have COVID right now, so many more than at any time earlier in the Pandemic. Of course, we have tests (theoretically, since they are hard to find) now, so people have a better chance of knowing that they are infected. Everyone I know who currently has it (OK, not everyone, but 9/10) have been extremely careful and are fully vaccinated, though not all have had a chance to get the booster yet. Early on in the pandemic, when we were all staying home and everything was closed, I thought we were all going to get…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Most years, I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I feel like we can be as intractable or changeable as we desire any day of the year, no real need to focus it all at the beginning of a New Year. Sometimes I go for it, though, because it can be easier to track a change and when it started if it started at the beginning of a week, month, year, etc. One year, my resolution was to floss more. Actually, that was my resolution for several years, but one year it finally stuck. Later that year, I was pleasantly surprised in what a difference it made in the amount of…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Meme Monday – Rain in the forecast
I know I’ve posted this meme before, way back in 2015 when it was dry dry summer and I was sick of it all. Today I am writing in a much better mood, having watched the weather report on the evening news, which said that we are predicted to get rain starting Tuesday, and then on and off (meaning some every day) for the next week. More importantly for California, we recently got about 8 feet of snow in the mountains, and can expect about that much again in this upcoming week. Thank God. That takes a combination of storms and cold. Too warm, and we don’t get the snowpack…