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I don’t drink alcohol for a number of reasons, the first and foremost being that is simply hate that fermented taste.  The smell gets me before my tongue gets involved, and when I can taste it . . . yuck! However, I really, really happen to appreciate a great glass…

We were out for a walk on a hiking trail that we have affectionately named “Broken Bridge Road” because it used to be a road and has several broken bridges.  It was a beautiful autumn day, and we were exploring one of the broken bridges when I looked over and…

For almost my entire life, the idea of keeping a sabbath was synonymous with keeping Sunday a special day.  Sunday was a day for going to church.  When I was a little girl everything was closed on Sundays, which definitely made the day “special” because it was deliriously boring.  (I…

The Banana has grown leaps and bounds since she started the violin, and without her teacher and I realizing that she needed a larger instrument until one afternoon a couple of weeks ago, when I mentioned something to her teacher.  After measuring her, it was determined that she needed to…

Our red Hugglepod had been a fixture in the corner of our family room for years and years, and then a few weeks ago it died.  It’s possible that it could be repaired, but I don’t know how to do it.  The kidlets were sad.  They were so sad they…

When it’s a sunny, 60 degree day on the first of October, you decide to round up a crew of kids from the neighborhood and go swimming.  Of course. They had a delightful afternoon.  Dr. Peds sat in a chair at next to the creek, and I went for a…

October is my favorite month of the year, but the first week of October is one of my busiest weeks of the year.  Music classes start up, I often have more photography clients than normal,  I sing with oodles of preschoolers on Sunday morning at church,  my kids are in…

On my cello I worked on improving vibrato (so, so hard for me!) and I learned several new techniques for playing pizzicato.  I worked on several different bowing and learned one or two shorter pieces and one longer piece of music. I learned a little bit about how to play…

We’ve lived in our house for almost a decade now, and when I was cleaning the entry way a couple of weeks ago I discovered that the rugs next to the door were literally disintegrating.  There were holes in the rugs that you could actually see through, and all of…