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When I was seven I got transplanted from a second grade in Clovis, New Mexico to a second grade in Hoisington, Kansas ( Read more... )

We, Kate and I, were racing home from the pizza shop in Clinton...Over the car, the sky was blue-black. I drove very fast, but as we passed the high school on the highway the rain began, big fat splats on the windshield ( Read more... )

The Power Ball is now worth 312 million dollars.

I will divide it equally (when I win) with everybody in my family, right down to remote nieces and nephews, so I won't feel guilty.

I'll start with ~85 million after taxes and divide it by about 20.

Gosh.

God.

A pause to think.

OrI could buy everybody in the family, including remote nieces ( Read more... )

Mike the weatherman predicts 81 degrees today ( Read more... )

A river in my backyard yesterday, when almost three inches of rain fell very fast! It grew so dark the streetlights came on, and the rainwater gushed from the hills across the road into the culvert, which quickly filled and overflowed ( Read more... )

I've tried to be a bird friend: I keep the feeders full of sunflower seeds, and the goldfinches always have a sockful of thistles ( Read more... )

I went for a walk by the river with my friend Cindy. The park people have placed bluebird houses along the meadow-side paths, and yesterday we saw a mated bluebird pair sitting on top of one of the houses! Cindy says bluebirds begin their nesting very early here ( Read more... )

Snow is falling steadily outside, and inside the house is dark ( Read more... )

January sunlight is best in late afternoon. My blue jars, including the Cobalt Baby, glow in the kitchen window.


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