Category: bits and pieces
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camp life
We spent the last four days at Grayland Beach State Park with some friends, old and new. For the first time, we had to make camp in the rain – dislike. And it POURED the whole night. LOUDLY. Luckily by the middle of the next day, we got some dry time, enough to wander out…
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what i am
I am green-eyed, English-Danish-Irish-Scottish. I am loyal. If I like you, I have your back. I am not narrow-minded. Which would seem to imply that I am accepting of other people. This is true, unless you think Michele Bachmann is a viable candidate for President or you are going to the prayer event Rick Perry…
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a hell of a party
The Geek and I spent last weekend in Wenatchee, about 2 1/2 hours east of Seattle . My friend Jeff and his fiance Wai are getting married in September. His brother Mike is the best man, and Mike’s wife Jen is the matron of honor. We were conned asked nicely to co-host a couples’ shower…
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pride
What I am about to write may possibly offend some people. I am OK with that. When I was in high school, I went to Camp River Ranch for a month two summers in a row, training to be a counselor. This is a Girl Scout camp, and those months were two of the greatest…
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another day
A friend called me Eeyore last week. Apparently I’ve been doing a lot of whining lately. It brought me up short, since I’m usually a “glass half full” girl. I realized I probably have been whining a lot. A habit I do not want to encourage. I also realized that while some people appear to…
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steamboat rock
I spent the last 3 days at Steamboat Rock State Park, about 4 hours east and north of Seattle. It takes its name from a massive basalt rock that now rises 800 feet above Banks Lake; it was originally an island in the Columbia River bed. Banks Lake is a man-made 27-mile-long lake formed…
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unqualified
There are a number of things I am qualified to do. I can teach someone to knit. I can learn you some quilting, put fabrics together. Cakes or cookies, I’m your girl. Mail merge from Word to Excel, some Timberline accounting, done. Camping reservations carefully plotted 9 months in advance, check. When my first kid…
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bored and blah
I am in a funk. For no good reason. I had a really decent weekend, was very productive in the yard. The bar is doing decently. Kids and hubby are healthy. Do I need more bran? Definitely some sun would help. It’s June 1st and I wore my down coat to work. That is wrong.…
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dry
I started getting migraines in my mid-twenties. The first one I remember most vividly – it hit just as I was taking off for a knitting retreat at Fort Warden. I spent most of that weekend in bed, trying to get up and knit in spurts. The headache finally broke on the third day, just…
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camporama
About this time of year, me and some like-minded others start having camping withdrawal. The others would not include the Professors or Lefty, nor, truth be told, my own family. But I ignore them and forge ahead with the stalking of prime spots beginning in October the year BEFORE the summer we want to go. …
foible and folly 