at 61 I know longer plan to ski, jump off diving boards, or climb trees.
I will still walk in snow, swim, and admire trees but I have toned it down.
at 61 I know longer plan to ski, jump off diving boards, or climb trees.
I will still walk in snow, swim, and admire trees but I have toned it down.
There is one God. He is good. Jesus is his son and the Holy spirit his paraclete. I live in Iowa. I have a husband. I have three children. I am female. I am aging. I will die to this earth.
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1. a loving God who gives unconditional love and forgiveness
2. being brought up by loving parents who were great role models
3. one brother who has never been anything but good to me
4. a loving faithful husband who is also an excellent father and excellent role model to them
5. Three beautiful adult children who make me proud of their strength of character and work ethic
1. a loving God who gives unconditional love and forgiveness
2. being brought up by loving parents who were great role models
3. one brother who has never been anything but good to me
4. a loving faithful husband who is also an excellent father and excellent role model to them
5. Three beautiful adult children who make me proud of their strength of character and work ethic
documentaries
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Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter
as a baby boomer, I learned typing in high school on a manual typewriter. If you went too fast the keys jammed. If you made a mistake, you had to erase and it usually tore the paper. And if you did correct it, it still left a telltale spot so it was obvious a mistake had been made.
Now with the computer keys don't jam, you backspace and correct. You even have spell check which back in the 1960s during my high school days would have been seen as impossible to ever be developed.
These are very positive changes for students and writers.
Dark chocolate and hazelnut coffee
]]>Blueberries. I like it fresh alone or in fruit salad or muffins or pie . Pretty much any style.
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no. Example, my first baby cryed nonstop for six months. If I knew that ahead of time I might not have had the baby. I have had serious illness that I would not have wanted to be aware of in advance and stew about it.
I spent two years anticipating college and my social life with cool guys and did not get one date my freshman year. If I knew that ahead of time , it would have ruined all my daydreams of joy.
Mealtime. I never forget it. Three times a day. You can count on me 100%!
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White Wool Dress with Black Ribbons
no. But it could make you comfortable while you are miserable. nice house, nice clothes, nice places you can afford to go to.
But it can't make you happy. YOu have to like yourself and who you are with and what you do to be happy. And to trust in God that he knows what he is doing.
ride my bike, visit my son's new home, visit my daughter's new apt., celebrate when my son lands a new job, have a deck and handicap ramp built on my home, get a fountain for that deck, have a birthday lunch with friends or family, write a short story and win a contest for it, design something, and see a great movie on the big screen with my husband followed by cheesecake!
]]>I have a blog to record current news in my town of 500 plus people. It is a way to preserve history for everyone and keep out of town former residents updated on the happenings at the old homefront.
]]>nonfiction. Fiction is too predictable and rather lame. I prefer nonfiction because it is stranger than fiction. Most lives and real life behavior is more bazaar than what authors can invent in their imaginations. It is also interesting to see how other people have solved or overcome life's problems and not only survived but learn to have a positive outcome. Or even if they are still not a winner by society's standards they have learned to survive.
]]>fly in airplanes. ride horses. hike on a hot day to the point of needing a boat rescue and ambulance to hospital for near heat stroke and dehydration while on vacation in Vermont.
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Los Lonely Boys at the Austin City Limits Festival
winston Marsalis, Los Lonely boys, yoyoma
]]>oysters or those martinis that taste like you are chewing on an evergreen tree
]]>match books from places i have dined or seen on vacation. They are harder to find as smokers are few and far between and many places no longer dispense them.
]]>it is not famous but my country church has the most beautiful stained glass windows I have seen anywhere.
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Free happy smiling baby face stock photo Creative Commons
It would be a news show with only good news and about positive people doing good in their community. and good news about people living well but sustainable and green and smiling and not being martyrs about it. Being less materialistic doesn't mean you suffer!
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Burnside Church, Wairarapa, New Zealand, 10 December 2005
I waited in line over two hours at a public tv station to meet and get an autograph and shake hands with Harold from the Red Green show. It was so worth it. He was nice and gracious and wrote a note on the postcard I handed him and then signed it.
Also, best thing to wait in line for is Holy Communion. What is better than having God with us?
i was sitting in my backyard on my swing reading a book. out of the timber comes a mother raccoon and 3 or 4 baby coons following her and they walk up to about five feet from me as if I was not there. I hoped she did not get nervous about protecting her kids and come bite me. She calmly looked around and then led them back to the woods. Strange but a nice surprise.
]]>Iowa Historical Museum. It is in Des Moines, Iowa. It is about our local history from native Americans to pioneers to the present. It has Abe Lincoln's reading glasses and Kruschev's coat he had worn herding sheep. The display is varied and very well done. It also has a splendid restaurant with rooftop views of the city and a great gift shop. And it is free!!! so all Iowans and tourists of any income may enjoy its bounty.
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Torley on Piano - Contemporare
I play piano. Could practice more than 15 minutes a month and maybe sound good. hahaha.
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That I am a patient, loving, pet owner. And I spoil him rotten. We take walks, we play tug of war (his favorite pastime) and he naps on my lap in the recliner.
He is my drugfree blood pressure reducer and stress reducer. He is boston terrier/beagle mix and it is a good mix.
Mini USB vacuum cleaner for Keyboard
chain letters are dumb
they annoy me to no end
a vacuum suck 'em.
Hawaii, Ireland, and Germany. Farther away? life is full of surprises. it could happen.
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Who wants to be a millionaire?
would you like to be a millionaire
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