tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333122532842053382024-03-05T12:43:18.218-08:00no botox allowed.wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-61165284226841880252013-08-26T15:50:00.001-07:002013-08-26T15:50:08.162-07:00RESTING, RE-EVALUATING, AND REJUVINATING <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I read once <em><span style="color: red;">"time is an odd ungraspable thing"</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I basically have taken a little break from blogging</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">needed to step away for a bit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Has been a difficult summer in many ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ever since my mom died, things have felt "off kilter"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hubby and I have been extremely busy working/landscaping some of our property</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BIG JOB</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My daughter and her 2 little girls came to visit for 10 days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was good medicine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel like it has been too long since a visit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to see the kids</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and gosh on JULY 4th</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got a new grandbaby</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and this coming weekend </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I FINALLY get to meet him, hold him, love on him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">going to Utah for family time</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was kinda funny as until my son and his wife selected his name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they called him <strong><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">CAPTAIN AMERICA</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">but he is LEON MATTHEW</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and how I love the name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leon is my father and grandfathers name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Matthew, after my son who passed away</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and is daddy's brother</span></div>
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this is my daddy looking at new baby on his computer..Great Grandpa for little Leon</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was pretty thrilled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> so, summer is coming to an end, way to quickly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll probably <em>settle in</em> to blogging again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and wondering </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">what do I want to share with all of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">what is interesting to YOU</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fall and winter will wrap it's chilly, lonely arms</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">around me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I'll be needing to reach out</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and sometimes blogging helps with that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh my goodness have things been crazy around here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sooo apologize for not visiting much lately</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SUMMER BUSY'NESS.....like probably most of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I'm going to throw this post together </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and show you THE BIG FLOOD IN CALGARY ALBERTA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and surrounding areas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>SO SAD !!!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and just a few weeks later everything had to be ready</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for the <strong><span style="color: red;">GREATEST OUTDOOR SHOW ON EARTH</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the Calgary Stampede</span></div>
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(FYI....point of interest, the Stampede parade is second in size only to the Rose Bowl Parade)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some photos of the Stampede grounds DURING the flood</span></div>
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the rodeo grounds</div>
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the Saddle Dome</div>
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originally built for when Calgary hosted the Olympics</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the water went up to the 10th row</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all the concerts planned for the Stampede</span></div>
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washed out bridges and roads all over the place</div>
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the town of High River...just south of Calgary</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>SO MANY PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a friend of mine has a son who lives there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and she said he called her in a panic saying they were evacuating</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as he gathered up his two little children</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> and by then the water was up past his waist</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They lost everything, but in their favor, they were renting</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE ZOO was also hit hard</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">YES !!!! they had to frantically move as many animals</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as was possible</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">MOVE THEM I SAY</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and for the rest of this summer the zoo will be closed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">also had to lay off more then 200 workers</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I could show you many MANY more photos, but you get the idea</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>disaster</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and as always during a disaster it brings out the BEST</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and the WORST of people</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I saw on the news (don't have photo) of a store in Calgary</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who was charging $20 for a bag of ICE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">guess the idea of charity didn't cross their mind</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">then you get good souls </span><span style="font-size: large;">who do this</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There have been thousands and thousands of volunteers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">working together, showing love and support</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and HELP</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now as everyone tries to get things back in order</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and for some, sadly, it will take a LONG time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my heart just breaks for them</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">CALGARY STRONG</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and here is what they were trying to get the grounds</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So grateful for loving caring people who volunteer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">their time, resources and yes money</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and that.....is how it's been in my neck of the woods</span><br />
(Calgary is an hour's drive south of us)<br />
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this is NOT a news report, so I may not be 100% accurate in all the details<br />
just how I remember it<br />
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-48870554810467973562013-06-12T13:19:00.002-07:002013-06-12T13:19:27.958-07:00GOT SOME ADIVCE??<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hey everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">not much to report at the moment</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I KNOW I have some <em><strong>smart</strong></em> bloggers out there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so I need some advice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This little cushion used to be on my moms bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but you can see it has this little water stain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">does ANYONE know how I can remove it??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have it on my bed</span></div>
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(cool headboard don't ya think....it is from the diamond willows right on our yard)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since moms passing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have taken a few things from the house to have around here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like looking at them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and enjoying the sweet memories it gives me of MOM</span></div>
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(a good photographer would have moved the tractor outside the window)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love moms big white Pitcher full of white Lilacs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a few more of her special dishes I've stuck in the hutch</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">*the tatting is done by my sister*</span></div>
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(a good photographer would have removed the orange ear plugs)</div>
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and more tatting by my sis</div>
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T<span style="font-size: large;">his little green decorative perfume jar that was on moms dresser</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and then lastly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NONIE MAY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mom had this on her hutch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I named this stuffed chicken Nonie as that was my moms nickname</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and she passed away in May</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">********<em> disclaimer</em>********</span></div>
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yes I know I have lived in this house now for 4 years</div>
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and have NOT</div>
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done anything with my steps going upstairs</div>
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BECAUSE</div>
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I am sooooo undecided of how I want to do it</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">bummer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOW</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">back to your advice, about the water stain</span></div>
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-91912878184439246202013-06-02T17:05:00.001-07:002013-06-02T19:11:46.986-07:00GOOD , BETTER, BEST<div align="center">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Good , Better, Best</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Never let it Rest</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">'Till the Good is Better</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and the Better</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">is BEST</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That is what my mother always told me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything she did in life... and her accomplishments were many</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she did her very BEST</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">now MOM is gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She died May 21st at 2:15 in the morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will make this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OR <b>TRY </b>TO MAKE THIS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a short tribute to my mom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was only 81, but has been cursed with ill health nearly her whole life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">about 20 years ago she had a tumor removed from her head</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and it changed everything about her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in regards to her abilities</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and her Zest for life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she became a recluse after that </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as she didn't like the physical damage it did to her</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">then she developed tumors in her stomach</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She used to oil paint, sold her paintings in Waterton</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">National Park</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">owned and ran a gift store in Calgary </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ribbon winning quilter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">directed plays</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wrote endless historical books of our family history</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I could go on and on into her earlier years as an athlete)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now she is Gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seems so hard to believe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as sad and heartbreaking as it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it is an answer to prayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she fell just 3 days before and broke her hip</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">her death came as complications from that surgery</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ME, my SISTER, and my AUNT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sat by her bedside</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">held her hand, sang to her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and watched her take her last breath</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An extremely sacred experience as far as I'm concerned</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">KNOWING</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and BELIEVING</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she just went through another door</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to those waiting on the other side for her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am excited to think my son who died 2 1/2 years ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">must have been hugging and kissing her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember in the hospital, during some of her delerium</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she'd say</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"I just want mom and dad to come and get me"</i><br />I think they did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mom pretty much had told my sister (her care giver)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">how she wanted her funeral to go</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOTHING big</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just a graveside service</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, wouldn't ya know it was pouring rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She always loved the wild flowers of Alberta</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and so we went into the foothills of the mountains</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and gathered up a bunch of Glacier Lilies</span></div>
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me, my aunt and sister in law</div>
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had to tie my hair back and put on a hat</div>
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my sister, my aunt and me<br />
placing the flowers on her casket<br />
IN THE POURING RAIN<br />
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who would have thought I'd be wearing jeans and gum boots to my mom's funeral <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My poor dad has been having a hard time with it all</span><br />
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dad and my sister<br />
He just wants to Die now too<br />
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I love this little country cemetary<br />
where some day I will also be<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have ancestors back to my Great Great Grandparents who are ther<span style="font-size: large;">e</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all the way up to now, my mom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my brother's little boy is buried there as well</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I surely will miss my mom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's a hard thing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a hard thing for those of us still here on earth</span><br />
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my sister, dad, my brother and me at a little luncheon after the graveside<br />
feeling kind of chilled from all the cold and rain<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> LOVE YOU MOM</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">take care of Matt for me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again</span><br />
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p.s. sorry I haven't visited your blogs lately<br />
I have been back and forth helping my sister<br />
and now I have tons of stuff needing taking care of on our property<br />
may take a bit of a break<br />
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-81548545197968237612013-05-16T16:00:00.004-07:002013-05-16T16:00:54.853-07:00SADDLE UP<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We have four horses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Mr. Gorgeous LOVES his horses</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am still in the 101 stages of learning about horses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love them too</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but they are big</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and strong</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and can hurt you</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and run fast</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and have a mind of their own sometimes</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and can hurt you</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(don't worry, I am not hurt)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of weeks ago we went with some friends on a Trail Ride </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">only about a 3 hour ride, no big deal really</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">BEAUT<span style="font-size: large;">IFUL COUNTRY</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was not my first rodeo folks</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(ok....only my second)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought I'd be able to handle myself pretty good </span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and m<span style="font-size: large;">y friend the whole while kept telling me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that she wasn<span style="font-size: large;">'t a good horse rider</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">pfssst.....well, she was freaking <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Calamity Jane</span> </span>compared to me</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and her husband</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">well</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you could call him Roy Rogers</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">or the Horse Whisperer</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">From left to right</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gorgeous</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">me....the horse whimp</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Calamity Jane</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ro<span style="font-size: large;">y Rogers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was impressed ho<span style="font-size: large;">wever by me and my friends horse STYLE</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had a blue helmet and blue blouse</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and she was all in <span style="font-size: large;">pink</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">good to know</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that if the EMT's have to attend to you</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you look color co-ordinated </span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The ride started off just fi<span style="font-size: large;">ne and I was <span style="font-size: large;">feeling</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">confident----ish</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the trouble all started for me</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">when we had this big hill to go down</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well..........DANG</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the rest of my group handle<span style="font-size: large;">d it just fine</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and mo<span style="font-size: large;">zeeed <span style="font-size: small;">(new word..or spelling anyway)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span> </span>on down</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well my heart started beating hard</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I was getting all panicy</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I kept trying to tell my horse</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK...STEP HERE</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">NO<span style="font-size: large;">...NOT THERE FREAKA<span style="font-size: large;">Z<span style="font-size: large;">OID</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I SAID STEP HERE<br />ok....FINE<br />step wherever you want</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">just <span style="font-size: large;">do<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> not</span> kill me going down this hill</span></span> </span></span></span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(sometimes horses have a mind of their own..so I found out) </span> </span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> ....lo though <span style="font-size: large;">I ride through the valley of death, </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall fear no horse.....</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK...so I survived <span style="font-size: small;">(thanks to my little prayer)</span> feeling a little less then horse savy</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a<span style="font-size: large;">nd then came our first ...<b>FIRST I TELL YO<span style="font-size: large;">U</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">river crossing</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(me and Roy Rogers)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Crossing the river was not really the big deal here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it was the going DOWN the bank</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and then coming back UP the bank</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By then I could feel a bit of an anxiety attack coming on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and my horse felt my anxiety</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and decided to JOIN IN on the whol<span style="font-size: large;">e anxiety <span style="font-size: large;">ride</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so he<span style="font-size: large;"> was having his own little rodeo</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I AM GETTING OFF RIGHT NOW!!!...<span style="font-size: large;">I said to my husband</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So he got off his <span style="font-size: large;">horse too</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and walked with me for a bit</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so that Black Stallion on Steroids</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I could calm down</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">whew</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(did I mention horses can hurt you) </span> </span> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">We told our fr<span style="font-size: large;">iends to go on ahead of us and we<span style="font-size: large;"> would catch up</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">then after a bit</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">they came and told us there was another river crossi<span style="font-size: large;">n<span style="font-size: large;">g up ahead</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was either wade acros<span style="font-size: large;">s the river and get soaked</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">or mount up</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I mounted up</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and <span style="font-size: large;">had a little chat with my horse about glue factories</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> W<span style="font-size: large;">E HAD SI<span style="font-size: large;">X</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SIX I TELL YOU</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">river crossings to do</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">but I think I put the fear of glue into my horse</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and he was much better the rest of the ride</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was really kind<span style="font-size: large;">a a<span style="font-size: large;">ngry with myself</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that I had lost my Annie Oakley MoJo</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The end of the ride was here</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a<span style="font-size: large;">t EM-TE town</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">such a cool p<span style="font-size: large;">lace</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Hubby...aka Festus<br />
going to check out the joint<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">probably a good place for him</span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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me and The Horse Whisperer<br />
FINALLY getting a chance to relax and CHILL<br />
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We all had a GREAT steak dinner here<br />
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going to check out the double decker out houses<br />
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yup...I'll stick to the UPPER level thank you<br />
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maybe I need to give up my horse riding<br />
and become ONE with MISS KITTY<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that all being said</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">IT WAS A GREAT DAY</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>I'M ALIVE</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">great friends</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">beautiful nature</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a sense of accomplishment</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yup</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'll do it again</span><br />
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and to end this story<br />
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love ya cowboy</div>
wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-33852683897194860872013-04-23T19:05:00.000-07:002013-04-23T19:05:20.552-07:00WAITIN' ON A WOMAN<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes I know it has been awhile since I did a post</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not much to report</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">other then the same ol' same ol'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And THIS might be my shortest post Ever</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(for me) </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Waitin' on a Woman</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That woman being ME</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You see </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have this adorable husband</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who I lovingly call "Mr Gorgeous"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many of you know our story</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and some of you do not</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I AM NOT going to relate that here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suffice it to say</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he was my sweetheart when I was still in high school</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and he was 4 years older</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Forty years later</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and a lot of living in between</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we are back together</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">When <b>He</b> gets an idea in his head</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">he wants to do it <b>NOW</b><br />especially when It is when he wan<span style="font-size: large;">ts to go somewhere</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Hey....I ne<span style="font-size: large;">ed to go (<span style="font-size: large;">hither and yon) and do</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">(such and w<span style="font-size: large;">hat)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and if you want to come</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I<span style="font-size: large;"> AM READY TO GO NOW"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT !!!!!!!!!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">L<span style="font-size: large;">ike ...Really I <span style="font-size: large;">say</span></span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">NOW </span> </span></span></span> </span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> He sa<span style="font-size: large;">ys<span style="font-size: large;">....</span> as he puts on his coat</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll wait for you in the truck</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">ok</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUT FIRST</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I need to</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">change my cloths</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">put on a bra </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">throw on some makeup</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and because I do have some OCD issues</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> First</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have to check the burners on the stove</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SEVERAL times</span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">make sure all the windows are clos<span style="font-size: large;">ed </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and heaven forbid</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I need to pick up a bit</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">cause if a burglar comes</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I WANT MY HOUSE TO BE NEAT</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so as not to be thought of as a slob</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">important</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So...</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">MUCH LATER</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">while this Mr. Gorgeous of mine</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">is waiting, w<span style="font-size: large;">aiting, waiting in the truck</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">cause he is READY T<span style="font-size: large;">O GO</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am afraid</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">He'll always be</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">(disclaimer...I NEVER EVER look that glamorous) </span></b></span> </span></div>
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-66089246069046776132013-04-08T14:49:00.000-07:002013-04-08T15:14:15.407-07:00TIME AFTER TIME<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">(yes I know, all my titles seem to be SONG oriented)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I LOVE MUSIC</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This may seem a little <span style="font-size: large;">i</span>ncohesive...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but after a conversation with my mom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought of this post</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for those of you who have been reading my posts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you know my parents are not doing well</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">health wise</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it is sad</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">up days....down days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but on one of the DOWN DAY conversations with my mom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she was feeling</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">What is the Sense of it all</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">for what purpose did I work all my life</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">YOUR DAD worked since he was 8 years old (yes)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">and what do we have to show for it</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">to take with us</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Understand, my parents have GREAT FAITH</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and they KNOW</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it's no<span style="font-size: large;">t about WHAT we take with us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">cause as far as "material things<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that would be nothing</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">not so much What we take with us</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">but what did we leave behind</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">so</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">mom and I talked about that</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I won't go into the trials and struggles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of their situation now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WE ALL HAVE THEM...OR <b>WILL</b> HAVE THEM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but its about</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">TIME AFTER TIME</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recently I rec<span style="font-size: large;">eived a photo from my son's <span style="font-size: large;">wife</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">of th<span style="font-size: large;">eir little 4 year old</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">who has just <span style="font-size: large;">started T-ball</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> the quality isn't that great</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">but it sure <span style="font-size: large;">took me back in TIME</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">when all<span style="font-size: large;"> 4 of my sons played baseball</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">sports of all ki<span style="font-size: large;">nds</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and yet</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">here it is again , repeating itself</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a continuance of What <b>WA<span style="font-size: large;">S</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a reminder</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that life will go on and on and on</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and it is important to dwell on the values, roots, foundations</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">of li<span style="font-size: large;">fe</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">YES MOM</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">what you left behind was</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a solid truth of what is</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">what will always be</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and wha<span style="font-size: large;">t once was</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Children who do not know their past wil<span style="font-size: large;">l never understand </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">their future</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Christopher Columbus) </span> </span> </span> </span> </span> </span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a continuance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">this is a photo of me and my grandparents</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">who I ADORE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and they too</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">took <b>NOTHING </b>with them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but <span style="font-size: large;">what <span style="font-size: large;">they left behind</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">was invaluable</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">the lessons, the love, the legacy</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Reme<span style="font-size: large;">m</span>ber the history of our people</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Everytime someone forgets, someone else disappears</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Alice Hoffman, author) </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so here I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">looking at myself, my life, my e<span style="font-size: large;">xample</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> with my<span style="font-size: large;"> 5 ch<span style="font-size: large;">ildren...one who left us TO<span style="font-size: large;"> SOON</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">What will I ultima<span style="font-size: large;">t<span style="font-size: large;">ely leave behind FOR THEM</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photo about 10 years old) </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will they forgive my faults, shortcomings, failures</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and instead</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">seek out the <b>GOOD</b> I tried to i<span style="font-size: large;">nstil<span style="font-size: large;">l in them</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">the truths</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(ha ha, I always told my kids, don't listen to what I said, listen to what I meant) </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by the same token</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sadly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't always follow my footsteps</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">just Follow the truths I TOLD YOU <span style="font-size: large;">A<span style="font-size: large;">BOUT</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I told you this would perhaps be a little</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">discombobulated</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">but stuff <span style="font-size: large;">rolling around in my hea<span style="font-size: large;">d here</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">What we LEAVE BEHIND</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">is of greatest value</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">My parent<span style="font-size: large;">s LOVED me despite the possible</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">many ways I disappointed them </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">they <span style="font-size: large;">had to Re-Adjust THEIR dreams for me</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">to the dreams I had <span style="font-size: large;">interpreted for myself</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and accept that</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and love me still</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Same for my children</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and grandchil<span style="font-size: large;">dren</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">OH <span style="font-size: large;">HOW</span> I WANT THEM TO REACH THE STARS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">take over the galaxy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">yet....they w<span style="font-size: large;">ill course their own way</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">but the TRUTHS and VALUES</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">will have been cem<span style="font-size: large;">ented in them....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(no matter how they may try and fight that)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am thankful for children who love me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Parents who have led me and guided me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and GRANDPARENTS who before all that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">layed out the same <i>"lifes map"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">thankful for a husband <span style="font-size: large;">who l<span style="font-size: large;">oves me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">despi<span style="font-size: large;">te my whinnin<span style="font-size: large;">g and </span> boob-a<span style="font-size: large;">-loobing</span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> BECAUSE</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the end</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">it's what we <span style="font-size: large;">leave</span> behind</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SHINE LIKE A DOMAN </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(which as <span style="font-size: small;">been changed from <span style="font-size: small;">Rhianna's song, <b>Shine like a Diamond)</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doman, being the last name of m<span style="font-size: small;">y sons </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">a</span>nd maiden name of my daughter </span> </span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SHINE SHINE SHINE</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and w<span style="font-size: x-large;">alk proud, confident, and assured</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that w<span style="font-size: x-large;">hat<span style="font-size: x-large;"> is now</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">was laid before you</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">G<span style="font-size: x-large;">enerations, and Generations ago</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, darling</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway..............it gave me my inspiration for this post</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hang with me here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To put it in a nutshell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it is about a very old lady, quite eccentric, but a LOVER OF LIFE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and PEOPLE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She'd say the craziest things and affected so many people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In part of the story she is talking about her LOVE OF THOMAS EDISON</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a friend of hers (story character Elna) tells this story:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>She loved electricity and appreciated it more than anyone he had ever met
before.</em></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>She wanted to meet Thomas Edison. She wanted to shake his hand</em> <em>and had a
picture of him in her house.</em></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">She was upset that there was not a <strong>national holiday </strong>for Thomas Edison.</span></em></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Why He lit the entire world!! (she said) Just think, without old Tom Edison we would
all still be sitting in the dark, no lights, no radio, no electric garage door
openers. I think, after the Lord, of course, I'd rank him number two, that's how
highly I think of old Tom. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>She said...that even though they did not have a national holiday, she
personally celebrated his birthday every year by turning on all her electrical
appliances at once and leaving them on all day.</em> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO THAT GOT ME THINKING</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you could pick someone you wanted a holiday, celebration</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">named after</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who would YOU pick</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are lots of holidays out there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Presidents Day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Columbus Day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Valentines Day </span><span style="font-size: small;">(yeah he was a person, not just cupid)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">St. Patricks Day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For Canada I did some research but didn't find much</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">other then Victoria Day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a day actually <em>named after a person</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I figured, surely there must have been some trapper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or pioneer, Eskimo </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who was worthy of a holiday</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other then these two</span></div>
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Bob and Doug McKenzie</div>
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I like these guys</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I had to start thinking who's out there </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">surely worth celebrating</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">since I am now a country girl</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And live around fields and fields of crops</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">how about JOHN DEERE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't think there's a farmer out there who wouldn't agree</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was the founder of Deere & Company</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow, just think of all the equipment with his name on it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">out there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">John Deere (Feb 7, 1804 - May 17, 1886)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He invented this stuff a long time ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He started out as a blacksmith in Rutland Vermont</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and one day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">had this HUGE BRAINSTORM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hey, There <strong>has</strong> to be an easier way to do things</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We even wear his hats and t-shirts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surely he deserves a celebrated day on his behalf</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then in the spirit of Elna like in the book</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We could all have a parade</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and drive our John Deere Equipment down the roads</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and high five everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or , again, since living in Canada</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">where would we be without SKATES</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The oldest pair of skates known date back to about
3000 B.C., found at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland. The skates were made
from the leg bones of large animals, holes were bored at each end of the bone
and leather straps were used to tie the skates on. An old Dutch word for skate
is "schenkel" which means "leg bone".</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Around the 14th Century, the Dutch started using
wooden platform skates with flat iron bottom runners. The skates were attached
to the skater's shoes with leather straps. Poles were used to propel the skater.
Around 1500, the Dutch added a narrow metal double edged blade, making the poles
a thing of the past, as the skater could now push and glide with his feet
(called the "Dutch Roll").</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now where would any good Canadian be</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HOCKEY ?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I tell ya, they take their hockey <em>Seriously </em>around here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like scary seriously</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and just think</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in tight pants and sequined shirts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">this is a serious situation folks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we need more reasons to Celebrate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and have days off work at the very least</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WHO WOULD YOU NOMINATE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for a day a year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">tell me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>make every day a holiday and celebrate</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>just living</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(anonymous)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And.....since I just lost 10 lbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that calls for a PIZZA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">maybe we need a holiday for the Pizza dude </span></div>
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-58184339086345637062013-03-11T16:55:00.001-07:002013-03-11T16:55:10.181-07:00IT'S OFFICIAL....I'M CANADIAN<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I know, you are all wondering what I <span style="font-size: large;">am talking about</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span></span></span><span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"> but</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was born in Canada</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so that makes me Canadian</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">b<span style="font-size: large;">ut</span></span> I also took out <span style="font-size: large;">American </span>Citizenship</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and have an American passport</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">it gets confusing</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this past weekend</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I SEALED THE DEAL</span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I went with some neighbors CURLING</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Yup</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I actually played the sport I used to <i>mock </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">laugh at</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">wonder "what the heck" </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUT IT WA<span style="font-size: large;">S SOOOOOO FUN</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> I wasn't sure what the dress code</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">for curling was</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so I played it safe and wore my <span style="font-size: large;">Duck Dynasty t-shirt</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> that's Uncle Si ther<span style="font-size: large;">e on the back</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a WHOLE NEW RESPECT</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">for this game</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's HARD</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">See those black things there on the ice</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those are for you to put your foot in</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and position yourself</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you use the broom to support you as well</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I must have had a defective broom</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">as I did spend a few times splayed out<span style="font-size: large;"> on the ice</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">less then graceful</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the bottom of your shoes you can wear SLIDERS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">slippery devils</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I<span style="font-size: large;">t wa<span style="font-size: large;">sn't working for me very well</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> these were just some "spares" they <span style="font-size: large;">had around there</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you can buy OFFICIAL sliders</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I prefer buffaloe pork sliders...tee,hee) </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> spouses had to be split up</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">so as we'd want to go home with each other later</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I <span style="font-size: large;">didn't ha<span style="font-size: large;">ve a clue about how to play</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">or any of the terminology</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">like, these are NOT balls</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was corrected, <b><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">s<span style="font-size: large;">tones</span></span></i></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">these<span style="font-size: large;"> suckers weigh 42 lbs folks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">HEAVY</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">each game I learned is NOT</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">called a<span style="font-size: large;"> round, set, or inning</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">but <b>ENDS</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">who knew </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the start of each<span style="font-size: large;"> game</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">we all put on<span style="font-size: large;">e loonie i<span style="font-size: large;">n the pot</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">then at the end of the <b><i>END</i> </b>(cause that's what they are called)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The winning team collected all the loonies</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span> for all my American <span style="font-size: large;">peeps</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a loonie is ONE DOLLAR</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Canada they don't make one dollar bills</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">we have loonies</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and Toonies</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">(I KNOW, Canadians are weird)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SO LET THE GAMES BEGIN</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">go big or go home</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(some photo's were taken by a friend) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>admiring the form, he was one of the better curlers there </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for sure</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">unfortunately NOT on my team </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"huh"...was my usual reply</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> this helps the ice get slicker</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">(or something like that)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">so the <b><i>s</i></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>tone</i></b> will go further</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you got to sweep FAST </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">my team capy-tan (captain)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd ask</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so, do you want me to put it over there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or over There??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's important to know</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">KEY to the game</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">because</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">are you ready for this</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">DRUM ROLL PLEASE</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the way you twist your hand on the stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is what makes it</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">CURL</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hence, CURLING</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>who knew</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Gorgeous (now wannabe Olympic curler)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">did it the easier way</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you get this pole thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">slide it over the handle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so you don't have to bend down and push the stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(hence, less time splayed out on the ice) </span></div>
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(but I don't think they'd allow that technique in the Olympics??)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and hands full of some of MY LOONIES </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My team didn't win one single game</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I always wondered <span style="font-size: large;">how that game even got started</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">like</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">maybe some Eskimos were sitting around in their igloo</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">one cold afternoon, bored</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">eating whale blubber</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">then one of them says</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hey, le<span style="font-size: large;">ts go gather up some frozen po<span style="font-size: large;">lar bear turds</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and see who can slide them the furthe<span style="font-size: large;">st on the ice </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUT NOT SO</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">if you want t<span style="font-size: large;">he</span> official history, I'll ju<span style="font-size: large;">st let you google it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think mine is more <span style="font-size: large;">colorful</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">....So....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's what my daughter says when someone has a bad attitude</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's just <b>stinking thinking</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which is kinda where I found myself Saturday</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gorgeous WANTED BADLY to go to a Cutter Rally</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I wasn't "getting into it"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey...I'm not about cold weather activities </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I decided to put my big girl panties on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So we headed out early Saturday morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">to travel almost 2 hours north/west of our place</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">to<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">han<span style="font-size: large;">g out with other</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cutter Rally..Cold Weather enthusi<span style="font-size: large;">asts. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I dresse<span style="font-size: large;">d up warm </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and we packed a little lunch</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and met up with a whole bunch of other<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> cutter rally fans</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots and Lots of horse trailers, trucks, horses, mules </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The organizers did a good job of plowing out lanes for everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">to park</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Good turn<span style="font-size: large;"> out</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you can imagine all these farmer/cowboys</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">gathered around</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">checking out each others <span style="font-size: large;">gear and animals </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">nice team of horses ya got there </span></i> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought my husband was crazy to want to go</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">to <b>all that work </b>o<span style="font-size: large;">f</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">packing up the gear</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">getting the horses in</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">traveling there</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">harnessing them up</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">just to Un<span style="font-size: large;">do all the gear at the end</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and put it all away </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">he calls it a labor of love</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gorgeous left the sleigh out ALL last summer, fall </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and this winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so it is in need of a paint job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hmmmm. Did you ask them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe they are a little miffed at<span style="font-size: large;"> having to work that hard??</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">As soo<span style="font-size: large;">n as we were all hitched up</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">the somewhat warm sunny weather</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">got cloudy and a little windy</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">G<span style="font-size: large;">all dern it</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Some kids had their toboggans</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">tied to the back of their parents sleighs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">and got pulled behind it......would be kinda fun for the kiddies </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gosh, I sure wish my grandkids lived close enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">for us to do that with them </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cool<span style="font-size: large;"> looking MULES !</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So out we head, and <span style="font-size: large;">I am starti<span style="font-size: large;">ng to "get into it"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every now and then <span style="font-size: large;">our horses would</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">act up a little</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I was WHOA NELLY !!!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">About 1/2 way<span style="font-size: large;"> along the trip</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">they had a station at some farmers property</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">where you could get some refresh<span style="font-size: large;">ments</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a hot dog....BOILED W<span style="font-size: large;">IENER</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">(<b>never</b> will I eat a boiled w<span style="font-size: large;">iener)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> hot chocolate/coffee</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hitched up while humans went in for there</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">sick boiled wiener</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (my photo)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>This was a cute little unit </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and he even has a stove inside it...if you look at the front</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you can see smoke coming out of it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">NOW THAT'S TRAVELING IN COMFORT </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">FIVE STAR facilities </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So after this little stop</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">we headed out again</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Things were going rather smoothly </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">when all of a sudden <span style="font-size: large;">there was a potato chip ba<span style="font-size: large;">g</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">left on the trail</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, our team of <i>little house on the prairie horses</i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">turned int<span style="font-size: large;">o</span> <i>little ho<span style="font-size: large;">rse </span>of horrors</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">They FREAKED out over this stupid bag</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and i<span style="font-size: large;">t was RODEO time</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I didn't know whether to jump off</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">or hang <span style="font-size: large;">on tigh<span style="font-size: large;">t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and hope I had all my body parts still <span style="font-size: large;">preserved </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">B<span style="font-size: large;">ut thanks to hubby</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">he got them under control and back on the trail</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">He told me<i> he had total control of the situation </i></span></span><i> </i></span><i> </i></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I told him he <span style="font-size: large;">was close to having <span style="font-size: large;">to drive me back</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">to those Five Star Facilities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">That line you see across the photo</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">is the whip h<span style="font-size: large;">ubby uses incase they need a little <span style="font-size: large;">coaxing</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">hells bells, they didn't need any coaxing</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I kept getting whacked across the face with it</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was about an 8 mile treck</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">through fields</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we were pulling up into the homestretch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a fellow stopped us and asked if he could take our picture</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was from the local newspaper and wants to put our picture in it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">as OUR sleigh was impressive he said....different from the others </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(and here I was looking like I took a long dip in the ugly pond) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">We all gathered in the community hall </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An interesting bunch of folks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were some handlebar mustaches there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could have done pull ups on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was called a Poker Rally</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and at <span style="font-size: large;">the beginning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and at the rest stop area</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the end</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">you'd draw some chips out of a barrel<span style="font-size: large;"> with <span style="font-size: large;">numbers on them</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and put <span style="font-size: large;">that number or your card</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prizes given out for highest hand, lowest.....etc</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (mine)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As it turned out, MY HAND took fifth place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I won $24<span style="font-size: large;">.<span style="font-size: large;">00</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Restroom </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all got a ribbon for Participating</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">OUR FIRST </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll have to make a ribbon, picture board</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and put it in the arena I think </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (mine)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hubby putting the horses and gear away</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After about a three hour treck, I was pooped</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I really didn't have to do the WORK</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think my <i>near death experience took it's toll on me </i>(tee,hee) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So all in all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have to admit</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I HAD FUN</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and need to stop my stinking thinking </span> </span></div>
wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-33592374702577636032013-02-04T12:06:00.004-08:002013-02-04T12:08:18.278-08:00WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF.......<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">NO</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">not the book of Love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">cause whoever wrote THAT book was messed up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No one can write a book about love really</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you learn it, feel it, grow with it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through your own lifes journey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT <b>HEY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(to quote Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that's not even what this post is about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's about BOOKS IN GENERAL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love books</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LOVE !!!!</b> books</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like to look at them, feel them, hold them on my lap</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that's why I'm kinda not sure about the whole Kindle thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(although everyone swears by it)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to me...it's kinda like buying a blow up doll</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not. The. Real. Thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not a very domestic chick</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I don't sew, crochet, <span style="font-size: large;">cooking is "ify"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">heaven forbid I am a moron when it comes to crafts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and creating anything</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SO I READ</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(safer) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ernest Hemingway said: "there is no friend as loyal as a book"</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(pinterest) </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I kinda like the look of books scattered around the house</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">in a neat dis-orderly fashion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">if that makes sense</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Here are a few examples of <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">some </span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the books lying around my place</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (don</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">'t mind Lucy's bed there in the back)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those of you who have been followi<span style="font-size: large;">ng my blog</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">for sometime now</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KNOW I have .... I CORRECT</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gorgeous has this HUGE arena on our property</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">in there I have about 3 boxes stuffed with books </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me and God have an arrangement you see</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't die until I read ALL MY BOOKS</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that includes the books on my "too <span style="font-size: large;">read</span> list"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HE</b> has to let me take them with me </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I read my books I <i>tab</i> parts that I really like </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">then when I'm finished, I write them all down</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">in my little book</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">WHY???......cause I love to go back and re-read those quotes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">how to write better</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">how to express myself better</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">beautiful<span style="font-size: large;">ly written words from amazing authors like:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">.....<i>kisses that ran toget<span style="font-size: large;">her like a string of pearl<span style="font-size: large;">s</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Cold Sassy Tree..Olive Burns<span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">.... </span><i>in a long and unprotected life I have seen and heard</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>vomitings of demonic humans </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Trav<span style="font-size: x-small;">els <span style="font-size: x-small;">With Charley..John Steinbeck)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">....<i>and the colors was like milk<span style="font-size: large;"> so soft and warm and</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>pouring over and into each other</i>. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Gap Creek<span style="font-size: x-small;">..Robert Morgan)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every now and then I try and read one of the Classics</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">just so I can say I DID</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mark Twain said: "a classic is a book which people <span style="font-size: large;">praise </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and don't read" </span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cornelia Funk : <span style="font-size: large;">"some books should be tasted, </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">C.S. Lewis said:<span style="font-size: large;"> "you <span style="font-size: large;">can never get a cup of tea large enough</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">or a book long enough to suit me"</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">So.............while all you clever gals and or guys</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">out there</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">are being creative with your hands</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and are incredibly artsy</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and some of you I know actually WRITE YOUR OWN BOOKS </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and read</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b>WAITING</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">what is it in YOUR life that you are waiting for</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a new home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a vacation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a new job</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a transfer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a crisis to end</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a child to "find <span style="font-size: large;">his way</span>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a husband's return from the military</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SOOOOO many things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sometimes the things we wait for Weigh heavy on us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">because Things tend to happen <b>WHEN</b> they happen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">nothing we do can to make that speed up it seems</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always am amazed how at night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">things become harder, seem to be more unattainable</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BIGGER</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Insecurities and hurts , anxieties and fears</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">GROW teeth at night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">AHHHHH daylight, and yup</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">everything seems Lighter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Sure seems to make a difference for me anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My mom and dad are in the process of <b>WAITING </b>right now</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but sadly since Good Health is not going to be a possibility for them</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">waiting...for what really</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dad s<span style="font-size: large;">ays he is ready to die</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They hurt so much <span style="font-size: x-small;">(I won't go into all the details) </span>but there really isn't anything</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the Medical Profession can do for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It hurts to watch <b>THEM</b> hurt</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My brother and I took a trip to Southern Alberta just for a little visit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Taking advantage of those opportunities while we can</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dad was in the hospital then....is home now</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I , ALWAYS as a blogger take my camera for photos</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But I could NOT bring myself to take a picture of my daddy <span style="font-size: large;">lying</span> in that hospital bed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">looking so frail and vulnerable</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I wanted a photo of him and my brother and sister</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with him, but I couldn't do it </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I choose a happier photo instead</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(I've had this on before) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was just last August. My dad and some great grandchildren</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">MY grandchildren</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">he has deteriorated significantly even those few months ago </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even watching my mom sitting on the couch all wrapped up in a cozy blanket</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hands folded in her lap</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dark blue veins, like tributaries leading to and from</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">her life's story</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time is an ODD Ungraspable thi<span style="font-size: large;">ng</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">consistent...but never in a hurry</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's OK</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waiting </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">teaches us stuff I guess</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's OK to perhaps tell the Lord</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(as my dad does)</span> that it's Time</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">no need to wait any longer</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">And besides...I think MATT is also</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">WAITING</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">for my <span style="font-size: large;">dad</span> to join him "there"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">that will be a joyful happy time for them both actually</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a chair <b>WAITING</b> for him , my dad</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The sun will set</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as we <b>Wait </b>on another day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope I don't let the "w<span style="font-size: large;">aiting on things" in my life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">spoil the Joy of just Living THIS day </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (view from out my front porch)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This isn't meant to be a sad or depressing post. It's the jo<span style="font-size: large;">urney</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">in life we will all go through at some poin<span style="font-size: large;">t </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I love Bruce Springsteen's song</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waiting on a Sunny Day </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(in part)</span><br />
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<em><strong>It's raining but there ain't a cloud in the sky</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>Must of been a tear from your eye</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>Everything will be okay</strong></em><br />
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<em><strong>I'm waiting, waiting on a sunny day</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>gonna chase the clouds away</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>Waiting on a sunny day</strong></em><br />
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-42574796365204283532013-01-02T14:23:00.000-08:002013-01-02T14:38:02.036-08:0050 SHADES OF..... 2013<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">Ha Ha</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought the title might grab your attention</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">because , seriously....I got Nothing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just not that much to blog about lately</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I'll try and <em><strong>shade</strong></em> in some thoughts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a new year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in case you didn't know</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I get older I find that a New Year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">isn't really a New Year....but a new number</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2011, 2012, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a new way of "charting things"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but....A NEW YEAR</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">might be something entirely different</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">focusing on more of a <strong>New You</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in <strong>THAT</strong> year</span></div>
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(deep eh)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have spent 61 New Years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the Date's have had little meaning as to the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">way I have grown</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">spiritually and mentally and emotionally</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they blend into one year from another sometimes</span><span style="font-size: large;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, therefore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">there are many <em><strong>Shades</strong></em>...30, 40, 50...or 61 in my case</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of how a new year has affected you</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">polishing your experiences</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sharpening your opinions </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time flies, that I KNOW</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so trite, but so true</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those wings are flapping faster then I'd like sometimes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SLOW DOWN</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the older you get, the quicker things change</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for good...for bad...for better...for worse</span></div>
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(hmmm, was that a marriage vow?)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tricky part</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it's EASY PEASY to deal with the good, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY</span></div>
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(yes I love Duck Dynasty)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and well, Better is just Better !!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for Bad</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">harder...does it make you angry, bitter, what??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for Worse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">now there's a doozy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">worse, is well....just worse</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Worse is where we get tested right to the core of who we are</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WHO WE ARE<br />not so sure I have liked what I have found out about myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been reading some of my journals over the years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I have found a "pattern"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a pattern I want to change......somehow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since Time Flies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I better get on it so I can see some accomplishments</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in this <em>place</em> I want to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Where</strong> I thought I'd be by now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>WHO</strong> I thought I'd be by now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">my dreams</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">my visions</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">my hopes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they don't always change over the years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just need a little altering</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as reality hits you right in the schnoz</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THIS year I suspect will be full of many</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">experiences for growth for me</span></div>
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(hopefully not in the waist line)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My parents are getting older and much more fragile</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am still in the process of "building" my life here </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">children with dreams and aspirations of their own</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">grandchildren finding their way</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">moves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NEW YEARS have surprises for all of us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to try and stay on top of it all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like the country song</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I'm gettin' a little stronger all the time"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that's what I need to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for each and every one of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a New <strong>YOU</strong>..in this new year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">this calendar year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just a number</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but WHAT does it hold for You</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">AS IN ATTI...TUDE</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yup</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why should that be such a big deal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">well, it just is. For me anyway</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have really been <em><strong>pulling myself together</strong></em> as of late</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">has it been easy....HELL NO</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(to put it bluntly)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I have had some <em><strong>shifts </strong></em>in life and I think it will <em><strong>open</strong></em> new doors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time to live a guilt free me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so.................if you are on this road with me, it will be bumpy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am NOT so optimistic to think it won't be hard </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I am more positive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so What about Turkmas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IT WAS GREAT, and the balm my soul needed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Years ago, well 2006 actually</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">my son Matthew who was hosting thanksgiving</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">bought a table cloth that we each signed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is so fun to see what everyone wrote over the years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was so lucky, as this November in Utah was WARM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I was loving every minute of it...not coats, hardly a sweater</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> here is me with 3 of my 5 kids</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One son not able to make the trip from Reno</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with all of us together</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">their 3rd baby</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Merry Christmas TO ME !!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't climb up onto roofs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">YUP...THIS IS ME</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BEING HAPPY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(tee,hee)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There have been some good travels on my road to </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">since my last post</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and funny</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but one very <strong><em><span style="color: #45818e;">sad</span> </em></strong>thing that I found out about</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">will actually HELP me get there more then I realized</span></div>
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(details not important)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but in a very strange way it has allowed me to realize</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">time to move on and <strong><span style="color: #45818e;"><em>BE</em></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so putting all that aside</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am headed to Utah to see my kids and grandkids</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">what could be more zippidy-doo-dah-ish</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">then that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will be with them for American Thanksgiving</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and since I won't be able to be with them for Christmas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we call it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">TURKMAS !!!!!!</span></strong></span></div>
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(because we are creative and brilliant like that)</div>
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I'll get to do a lot of this</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I won't be able to visit many blogs over the next two weeks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you understand...right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll catch up with you all when my arms have rested</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from all the hugging I intend to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">on that same note of HAPPY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Funniest show ever</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I laugh till I nearly pee my pants</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">guess I AM turning into a bit of a <span style="color: red;">REd NeCk</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">it's all good</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">like I said</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am learning to </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes I told you there would be a <em>part two</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so you know what your are in for if you stay here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More fun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cause ME and my Peeps</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of the family kind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">are nothing but FUN</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>come visit me.........Find out for Yourself !!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's see</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">where to start</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ok...so after we stayed at My place for 6 days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we headed south</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to Southern Alberta</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so we could see my folks and sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(we stayed at my sisters house)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">also there was the Yearly Family Reunion to attend</span></div>
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(gotta love a family reunion to re-affirm the nut tree you come from)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was POURING when we got to Beazer</span></div>
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(that's about 20 miles from Waterton National Park)</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">But no sireeee...no rain will spoil Our Fun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sister had these funny umbrella hats on hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My parents (great grandma and grandpa) had a freezer full</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You Yankees can't get that down there </span><span style="font-size: small;">(so I've heard)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">so when my kids come up we buy a HUGE BARREL of it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yup.....I said Barrel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and every evening after <strong>supper </strong></span></div>
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(we say supper up here in Canada...there is breakky, dinner and supper)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'd head over to my parents house</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Line up....and fill up ice cream cones</span><br />
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(yeah, it was not healthy for my hips eating this, they are in jeopardy of becoming a little Rolo)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Reunion was fun as always</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you know, the usual</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wiener and marshmallow roasts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">jokes and teasing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a few insults for good measure to keep us honest</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">games</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sometimes the games did not go well for a few</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The kids had fun running around in the fields </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and playing on the hay stacks</span><br />
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(I guess Gracey is still a little miffed from the game)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the Favorite things for the kids to do when they visit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">is go to the BARN DANCE<br />Officially....<strong><span style="color: #38761d;">THE GREAT CANADIAN BARN DANCE</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It really is a lot of fun</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">some real good two steppin' and line dancin'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">a little line dancing with my cousin</span><br />
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seriously ---so stinking much fun<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The<strong> Creek</strong> is always a fun place to hang out at</span><br />
(I have been swimming this creek since I could walk)<br />
and have been known to do a little skinny dipping as well<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or perhaps you just want to do some floating</span></div>
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(K-doll......aka Sue Ellen Ewing (if your read my last post)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Hiking......</strong>lots of that</span></div>
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(so pretty.........the Scenery Too)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We always go to Waterton Falls</span><br />
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(DIL and her kiddies)<br />
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(My daughter and her gals)<br />
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(looks like a little too much Rolo around the waist)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>RED ROCK CANYON</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a fun place to go</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as you can go for quite a long ways following this creek</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through the Canyon</span></div>
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<br />There are some Deep parts as well as the shallow parts</div>
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Miss Olivia always ready to try the more daring places<br />
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there were some really slippery places<br />
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DANG....it is pretty up there<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lastly....we had our <strong>Ceremonial Indian Night</strong></span><br />
(or to be politically correct, the American Native night..or in Canada, First Nations)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all gather around the bonfire</span><br />
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(visual proof...me and a niece from a few years ago)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ANYWHOOO</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">as I direct the smoke towards their head</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">each person is given their new Indian Name for the Year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and their Animal Names</span></div>
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Example: (for the benefit of my family members reading this)</div>
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Olivia was...FAWN and Rainbow Fish</div>
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Grace was....Thunder Cloud and Wild Stallion</div>
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Kendra was...Morning Glory and Blue Bird</div>
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Tristan....was Lightening Warrior and Happy Wolf</div>
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NOW EACH ONE IS NAMED THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR PERSONALITY TRAITS</div>
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(as a side note...SOME of you have heard this before</div>
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but since I am on my Third Marriage ....don't judge LONG STORY</div>
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my DIL once dubbed me <strong>SHE WHO WARMS MANY BUFFALO ROBES</strong>)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the Ceremony which also consisted of some Indian Chants</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Dances (oh yeah, I know how to do THAT)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the kids have to run around the Barn, scantily clothed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we made a little loin cloth for Tristan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We even attended a REAL POW WOW</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a part where they invited all spectators to join them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">on the grounds and dance around with them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(even though we'd already been there done that)</span></div>
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(my daughter, grand daughter and sister)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was All Pretty Amazing actually</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So...there you have it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A vacation wrapped up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone gone back home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and me.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll be sitting in my own teepee through a cold winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps "warming some buffalo robes"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>IT'S OVER</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and that is sad</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you read my last post, you know</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I had my daughter and her two girls</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and DIL and her little gal and son</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">visit me for TWO WEEKS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you scream wheeee with me and jump up and down</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">thanks </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought I'd try and gather some of the <strong>Best of the Country Best</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to show you </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of all the FUN things we did</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had been working on the little cabin for over a month</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and it worked out Great</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it has no "facilities" </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so normally I'd say, "hey, do the country squat"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but Mr. Gorgeous also decided </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THIS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that practically turned my lodgings into a FIVE STAR get away</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we called it Cowgirl/boy Test</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kinda like Merit Badges in Scouts....only COOLER</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they loved being able to put a star</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she said she'd love to be a cowgirl...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if it was more like the TV show Dallas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">saying that, once we got to the trees</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But this little Annie Oakley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she said, "I wish for this stick to turn into a horse"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and when grandpa (Mr. G) would lead her around on them</span></div>
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(my daughter...and her daughter)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and at the end of each day</span></div>
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<strong>I'M SORRY THERE ARE SO MANY PHOTOS...said NO GRANDMA EVER !!!</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I sit here today in my house</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with POURING rain outside, it's quiet and dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am reminded of LAST SATURDAY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and start to hyperventilate</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><strong>HOLY FREAKING FENCING</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">yup, we were <em>workin' the land</em> (as they say here in the country)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are re-doing our front gate, so had 3 major Holes to dig for the BIG posts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, due to this handy dandy world we live in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we don't have to "dig" the holes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We use this sucker</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its an Auger, that's attached to the tractor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> does all the work for you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You position it to where you want the hole dug, turn the switch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and it spins round and round digging down into the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Only thing is, You do NOT want to get in the way of it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">while it is spinning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><strong>THIS DAY</strong></span>, Mr. Gorgeous did</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">after having worked this sucker 1000's of times</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the 1001'th time, it snagged him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was wearing gloves </span><span style="font-size: small;">(which he doesn't usually do when using this machine)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the glove got caught in this here bolt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">not exactly sure <em>which </em>one of these bolts, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they aren't talking</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the next thing I knew Hubby was off his feet spinning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like jeans in a wash cycle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">round and round with that damn auger</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't believe my eyes !!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the worst part, I had <strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">NO CLUE</span></strong> what to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember screaming to him "what do I do"</span></div>
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(<strong>note to self.....</strong>if you are going to be a country girl, better learn how to operate the equipment, or high heel your toosh back to the city)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After about 3 good times around, he was thrown onto the ground</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BECAUSE his arm snapped</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that actually was what "released" the resistance and force that had him hanging on the auger</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When his hand and arm went limp from the break....there was no more resistance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and off he went</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gorgeous say's ...."my arm is broken"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No crap cowboy....I can soooo see that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"that's what I was thinking in my calm hysterical state of mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and when I get hysterical, scarred, upset</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I DRY HEAVE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it is very lady like..........NOT</span></div>
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I don't actually "throw up".....just sounds like I'm about to heave all my grits up on the spot</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hubby is very calm however, and tells me in no uncertain terms</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN!!!!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he had to instruct my sorry self how to turn off the tractor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">then when I returned to him and saw the big gash in his arm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and some bone, I REALLY got <em>uncalm</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Get to the house and call 911..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"do you remember our gate# and Range Road??"...he asks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">yeah, yeah, yeah....I reply between dry heaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While talking to dispatch on the phone</span></div>
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(she asks, are you going to throw up?)</div>
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NAH, these are just my nervous noises</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She asks, "where is your husband now"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">then I look out the window and What is my X-Firefighter maucho cowboy doing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Walking down the freaking road to the house, holding his arm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at the very end of this road is where we were working</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as well as a calm, but very Pale Mr. Gorgeous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">kept giving me instructions</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They dosed him up with morphine and off to the big city</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they took him for needed surgery</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He had a compound fracture, fixed up with 2 pins and 12 screws</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I told him he was pretty fortunate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>how many cowboys get screwed 12 times in one day??</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did an awful lot of walking up and down these hospital corridors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I had to put this in here for some of you <em>warm weather living </em>friends of mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">these are plug in's.....for in the winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when it's so cold you need to plug in your car</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so it doesn't freeze ...I don't know, the battery or some other cold sensitive car part</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now we are home, he is doing fine actually</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">our chores for this summer are put on <em><strong>hold </strong></em>for now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plan B in place</span></div>
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except I didn't HAVE a Plan B</div>
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Other then for me to perhaps take a Defensive Farming Class</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gorgeous FORBID me to put up any photos of his bruising</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all down his one side, colorful as the northern lights I'd say</span></div>
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GOSH....how can he forbid me, obviously he does not</div>
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understand Bloggers ALWAYS put up all KINDS of photos</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a lot more purple right now</span></div>
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gosh, I wish you could see his side...I know, I promised</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All in all, it was a frightening experience</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People have LOST THEIR ARMS on this machine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Totally ripped off</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were LUCKY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it, That's my</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">made me think of this scripture in Psalms:139</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>in part....."Thou knowest my downsitting and mine rising"</em></span></div>
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</div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-62126964247149998942012-02-27T10:03:00.000-08:002012-02-27T10:03:38.840-08:00and So it Goes......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPqOyxrysT-VwF30pwr8XimiqkLyrpOxxGXJXwN2QDlz_VwYlPBSszgasj-PKaOVJxrXeOzmY7QdmI87Cz_TqN1vqDCXh0cnXQedJ6fGTYnDZiLU2f2ygwVXUoRvhrBXJyGcBdvWhY-A/s1600/2nd+path.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPqOyxrysT-VwF30pwr8XimiqkLyrpOxxGXJXwN2QDlz_VwYlPBSszgasj-PKaOVJxrXeOzmY7QdmI87Cz_TqN1vqDCXh0cnXQedJ6fGTYnDZiLU2f2ygwVXUoRvhrBXJyGcBdvWhY-A/s640/2nd+path.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every now and then</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just when you think things are calm and going well in your life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">that sun warms your shoulders</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and clean, crisp air is breathed into you lungs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">that your heartbeats are at a peaceful rhythm</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">without any warning you find yourself having to walk into the mist</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the fog</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the darkness of the UNKNOWN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That was my weekend</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday night I received a call from my youngest child</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">that his wife was taken to the Emergency Ward</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">she was very ill with uncontrolled vomiting</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">nausea</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and dizziness</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">(my son and his wife)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The hospital did an immediate MRI</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and found this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">an unexpected mass growth on her brain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could not believe what I was hearing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">tears flooded my eyes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">suddenly that clam heartbeat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">took an erratic beating</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I felt chilled</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and felt like I was trying to "suck in air"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sunday they performed surgery</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">to remove this mass</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">She is now in recovery and the Dr. said the operation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">went well !!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They do not expect any cancer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and she should hopefully have a Full Recovery</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know, I KNOW</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">that it was due to the many, many heartfelt prayers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and well wishes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">on our families behalf</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was humbled and amazed by all the caring people</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">who <em>"walked with me"</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">on Sunday</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because soon, Becky will be doing this again</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">smiling her pretty little face off</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">back to pursuing her education </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the field of Pharmacy</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">she is actually an intern right now</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the very hospital she was operated in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can we all get a Fist Pump Here.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">whoooopeeeee</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>When you have come to the edge of all light that you know</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Faith is knowing </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>one of two things will happen.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>There will be something Solid to stand on</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Or</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>You will be taught to fly</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(unknown)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our family is flying high right now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-23833946129659419062011-11-09T10:01:00.000-08:002011-11-09T10:07:34.383-08:00THE CALL<div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I have written, torn up and rewritten this many times ,trying to find a way</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to put it all together</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">My call</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">came 11-11-10</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"> at 6:43 <strong>a.m.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">from my daughters house, at at time when you KNOW,normally</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> a call would not be made</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">It was one of my sons</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"mom, it's Matt, he's gone"</em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">A phone call that made my legs so weak</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I felt they could not hold me up</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">that I would fall</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">A phone call that brought me to my knees</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">in shock and pain</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">in prayer for understanding, questions, strength</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">My husband and I quickly packed a bag </span></div><div align="center">I wasn't even aware of what I put in, and what I needed</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We made the 16 hour drive to Utah</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">straight through</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">my husband said it was a long grueling 16 hours</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">to me, I was not even concious of the time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I was lost in thought of a little boy, who became a man</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and is now gone</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I kept thinking</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Why hadn't I felt him going.There should have been some message</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>from his spirit</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>some disturbance in the daily order of things.</em></span><br />
something??</div><div align="center"><br />
my eyes felt <strong>bruised</strong> from all the tears<br />
tears carry many different melodies over the course of our lives</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">And so came the preparations of a funeral</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">all our family members came up with</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">beautiful tributes </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">we bonded in deeper ways then we had before</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the rest of us survive....somehow</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div><br />
<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and through it all MANY LESSONS are learned</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">you know that old saying</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>it would be sad to have the experience..and not learn the lesson</em></span></div><div align="center">(any small measure of a lesson)<br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and what did I learn</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">that I certainly am NOT alone in this sacred fraternity</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">there are many of you</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">who have suffered greater things then me</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">in this sacred experience called death</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I have been learning from you</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">here are a few things <strong>I</strong> want to remember:</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">1. DO NOT hesitate to go to a viewing if you can. I had so many people I never expected to see who showed up</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and they will ALWAYS be remembered for that</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">people <span style="font-size: small;">(you know who you are)</span> who I didn't even know</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">who cared enough, for me, to come</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">yup, blogging friends I had not yet met</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">but will be forever bonded to in this act of love</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">2. Don't worry about trying to find the right things to say. There ARE NO right things to say. A hug is sufficient: body language that says "I can't Rescue you, but I can sit with you."</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">3. Acts of service, we had so much food brought over to us. <a href="http://www.annban10.blogspot.com/">Ann </a>brought over this amazing chicken soup that we have lovingly named Matt's soup. Flowers, plants, cards. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I had neighbors and friends even go so far as to give me </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">something soothing as lotions, perfumes, bath products</span></div><div align="center">(did you know you can do your best crying in the shower)</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Think outside the box. Maybe babysit for someone for a few hours so they can get out and have some quiet time for themselves.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">My daughters house became ground zero as we called it</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">so, her aunt (my sis) and her daughters</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">who live far away and were unable to come</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">sent her a gift certificate for Merry Maids</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">someone to clean up her house after all that chaos</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember, what may seem to you like some small thing</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">becomes a monumental thing to the one who is grieving</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">So now, after a year</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">we will each celebrate our special memories of him</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Sister Lauriette </span><span style="font-size: small;">(the Nun I met in Ottawa this past summer) </span><span style="font-size: large;">said</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">in a letter to me</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Memories are inscribed in our hearts like a photo</em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZjUwhgY_32VpeFPpQkWxI6wpmgedFxQerKX-fRXrq3RhJ8Ffot4XZXj2bJb8yaB5d4O6AEcPdpEFizQ92A9roZ5dLjwe186cwOl4KxsIYsby-5gVpAEvE-8WueODdaTs655WQ_DKxUgM/s1600/mattgoof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZjUwhgY_32VpeFPpQkWxI6wpmgedFxQerKX-fRXrq3RhJ8Ffot4XZXj2bJb8yaB5d4O6AEcPdpEFizQ92A9roZ5dLjwe186cwOl4KxsIYsby-5gVpAEvE-8WueODdaTs655WQ_DKxUgM/s640/mattgoof.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">ha ha, don't let that innocent face fool you</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">He was full of mischief and adventure and FUN</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">He will be forever remembered by his young children</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">His daughter wrote this and left it on the kitchen table</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Now don't tell me that doesn't bring a tear to your eye</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Each day, me...all of us who loved him</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">will try and move towards light</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpR3oNc3B1_vB-OfHy99JHScAB33XKbo1ylhCnXRsfl8YC5G9UFZkxohBfybOUkgJJ4mLQEdaET94d3x2L11FJMnKJOGdXK52XJ-WY0I5-wxrFpSeRcaIbtWp2ddiOq78G-GizpAR6BE/s1600/320210_2096685452705_1112427760_31877742_1898767910_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="514" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpR3oNc3B1_vB-OfHy99JHScAB33XKbo1ylhCnXRsfl8YC5G9UFZkxohBfybOUkgJJ4mLQEdaET94d3x2L11FJMnKJOGdXK52XJ-WY0I5-wxrFpSeRcaIbtWp2ddiOq78G-GizpAR6BE/s640/320210_2096685452705_1112427760_31877742_1898767910_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">there may be some darkness in the wings</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">but if we open our spirit to it</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">light will find it's way in</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">this poem was read at Matt's funeral</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>ring the bells that still can ring,</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>forget your perfect offering</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>there is a crack in everything</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>that's how the <strong>light </strong>gets in</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">-</span><span style="font-size: small;">Leonard Cohen-</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4QH5OLTzsLmxQnnitK4TkBS4DeJdTfNrcic98bSpRxydbVtlqEYbPy-U-_2sIy9NQlYCmYrDGGlIGv5YfczKWefboIPJbOF4iuSRdeEp4Ne0dCkEu4U8FOuw7UjJ1pFBCFAO7ehSBVM/s1600/tandywedding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4QH5OLTzsLmxQnnitK4TkBS4DeJdTfNrcic98bSpRxydbVtlqEYbPy-U-_2sIy9NQlYCmYrDGGlIGv5YfczKWefboIPJbOF4iuSRdeEp4Ne0dCkEu4U8FOuw7UjJ1pFBCFAO7ehSBVM/s640/tandywedding.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center">sometimes, when I see his face, unexpectedly, it takes my breath away</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I will try to heal</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Healing does not mean being all well</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">it may take a lifetime</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">it's like a chronic illness</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">it's not terminal....just feels like it sometimes</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't want to remain bitter for what I sometimes feel are </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">unanswered prayers</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">pleadings</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Because.........Right Now</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know WHY</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the last <em>writing,</em> I will have of my summer activities. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope you will bear with me through these photos........cause YOU just think they are photos.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not so my dear blogger friends</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are not mere photos, but <span style="background-color: white;"><strong>Relationships, Love, Bonding, Roots</strong>. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">My daughter and her 2 girls, came from Salt Lake City to visit me for about 10 days.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They got to stay in the New Cabin we just bought</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Cabin waiting to be filled with memories and mischief. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So say Howdy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We only got this cabin about a week before they arrived, so it is in it's Virgin stages.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">give me some time to spruce it up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What do you do with two spunky grandaughters during a visit to the Country</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well..........you have wiener roasts of course. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVIUb-NGYs89uhu1hCHgftgx8-bXGWza9iL48LhEfTE5Ln5yaKwpfwFp_W16Qfwk6wpnqWFi8VjeEVdF576trlZgOhwI9zh76qOyy_Xfo2koMWIq2nqvyfqhf3357DYqA1KNN4JUGM_o/s1600/002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVIUb-NGYs89uhu1hCHgftgx8-bXGWza9iL48LhEfTE5Ln5yaKwpfwFp_W16Qfwk6wpnqWFi8VjeEVdF576trlZgOhwI9zh76qOyy_Xfo2koMWIq2nqvyfqhf3357DYqA1KNN4JUGM_o/s640/002.JPG" width="640" xaa="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, it would be interesting to know if your marshmallow roasts turn out like<strong> THIS</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My sister and Loo-Dog (that's her nickname)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">thought they'd get creative with theirs</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then you better go swimming at the creek to wash all that goo off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This creek is historic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">in my life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have swam in it since I could walk, and hunted drift wood along it's shores to smoke </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">(another story)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a rope on the rock wall that the kids love to hang onto and jump into the water.</span> </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or how about a nice lazy ride down the river.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mom caught a Frog. Holy freaking city girl, I couldn't believe she grabbed onto that slimy thing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">But her response is, It's a Mothers Duty. </span><span style="font-size: small;">guess I fell short on that <em>duty</em>, I ain't touching no frog.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">forget snow angels, it's summertime</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">besides, young'uns don't seem to mind a little sand in the crotch</div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forget the mega bucks you spend at the spa for mud treatments.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here, it's free</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">besides young'uns don't seem to mind a little mud in their crotch</div><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Can't come visit me without going to </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">THE GREAT CANADIAN BARN DANCE</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Loo-Dog lives for this treat</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">She picks out her outfit months in advance</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and was a little miffed with her mom for forgetting her cowgirl earrings.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course grandma has to join in and do a little two-stepping.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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I know, you don't have to say it, I look pretty pathetic trying to shake my booty</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">But I did it for my Grandaughter ---OK, get over it. </span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the <strong>Naughty Pit. </strong>Any misbehaving and you could end up down there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and there are spiders, and creepy crawlies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and pit monsters.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">(seems pretty effective)</div><div style="text-align: center;">actually it was my grandma's old root cellar. I can't believe she'd go down there for her canned goods and spuds and homemade rootbeer. </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Went for a Trail Ride. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aren't those Rocky Mountains beautiful. </span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">After it was all over, I turned around and there was Loo-Dog, doing her own dismount</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the wrong side of the horse. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I see rodeo queen written all over this gal.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is at Waterton National Park. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is amazingly beautiful there if you are looking for a vacation adventure.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was a sign that said <br />
Stay Away from Bears.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ok, so it's not a real bear.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I heart my family.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The gals wanted to go on a canoe ride, or the water paddle boats</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I put a nix-nay on that</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Grandma isn't looking to have a stroke today, with all that exerted effort, rowing and paddling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can't come visit me without going on a hike</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK, so I did consent to walking and heavy breathing.</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I LOVE this mountain</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is called <span style="color: #0b5394;">Old Chief</span></span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">it is actually in Montana....that is how close my folks live to the boarder</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">FYI....I have climbed the back side of this mountain and stood on the very top</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">which is only about 5 feet across. </div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">another story for another post</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I really like this photo of Grace-Lace</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6UHutr2ae5q_IbMuuFHqZLRTaKKxG2oBtnOkGe6uQElbkjyslrcPAE_en2v790hN5IROqK3QzBCnJ4Yr88BXdOE0eppHFimVzbRzQeiNf1FgBfVARvJLvu8uqLtri65OspFrnJyn4tEE/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6UHutr2ae5q_IbMuuFHqZLRTaKKxG2oBtnOkGe6uQElbkjyslrcPAE_en2v790hN5IROqK3QzBCnJ4Yr88BXdOE0eppHFimVzbRzQeiNf1FgBfVARvJLvu8uqLtri65OspFrnJyn4tEE/s640/009.JPG" width="640" xaa="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hay ----how are ya</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ok that was cheesy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Gorgeous was excited to take them on a Wagon Ride. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Roll'en, Roll'en Roll'en......Rawhide.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">another Summer packed full of memories </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I heard this saying once, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>if you don't know where you came from, how will you know where you are going.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Roots are important</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Families are Forever.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>(excuse me, grandma has to slip into a corner now and cry a little)</div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-12512299403578355522011-08-25T15:43:00.000-07:002011-08-25T15:55:30.132-07:00CINDERELLA.....PART DEUX, and the giving up of the slipper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">if you haven't read part 1, go down a post, you must!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Life itself, is the Most Wonderful Fairy Tale</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hans Christian Anderson</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I totally must put up a photo of Julie (Miss Juliet) who did the majority of our picture taking</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">it is what she does</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">takes classes and everything</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I LOVE how she dresses so funky, she was my fashionista</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">One more photo from our day in Montreal</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They give horse drawn carriage rides and all the girls wanted a photo on the carriage</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="color: magenta;">PINK</span> </em>is Claudies Signature color (kinda like the movie Steel Magnolia)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I took a pass on it............HECK, I ride in horse drawn carriages</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">all . the. time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">horses and cowboys..........It's what I do. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">but not in a dress, and um, not pink</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Julie was the only single gal of the bunch. So it was only appropriate that she get her photo taken with the waiters from the restaurant, remember in my last post</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the ones who Loved us and ended up giving each of us a rose</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">ahhhhhh</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudies sweet hubby, our personal chef the duration of most of this trip</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">set up an OUTSIDE MOVIE NIGHT</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">yup....we all grabbed a blanky, and watched a movie outside in her yard</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">it was like a drive in theatre.......without the necking</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">well.........I didn't really check on Claudie and her hubby</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next day......we went to what is known as 1000 Islands</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Part of it is in New York State.........holy freaking Big Apple (without actually being in the Big Apple)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I made it into New York State</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was an awesome place to see, as people would actually <em>BUY</em> an island, just a small one most of them, and build a cabin, house, whatever as their <em>SUMMER HOME</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What???... a summer home</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">we are talking some serious cash here</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">instead of 3 car garages, they had 3 boat garages </span><span style="font-size: large;">as the only way to access them is by boat</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is on the Saint Lawrence River</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This photo is what is called the smallest International Bridge in the world</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">on one side of the Bridge (where the house is) is Canada</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the other side is USA</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, it was amazing to see all these places built on , well, 1000 Islands............</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is Julie and Claudie mapping out our plans for the day</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">or thinking.....crap, we better delete This photo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcnyD40T-v5BJZRg8n9msmQxQVhf2nmTDrPD7Qq7caUR_h5-R3r8RBHvGprBcF_QV2PQqQPsi-E0U52omytheuNSlyznVT8LpIWn_E5ow_zX9eyHh0kg1TEN0xpwLoMD13LIY6jI5Ev4/s1600/371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcnyD40T-v5BJZRg8n9msmQxQVhf2nmTDrPD7Qq7caUR_h5-R3r8RBHvGprBcF_QV2PQqQPsi-E0U52omytheuNSlyznVT8LpIWn_E5ow_zX9eyHh0kg1TEN0xpwLoMD13LIY6jI5Ev4/s640/371.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We crossed into New York State on a Ferry Boat. We wanted to see Boldt Castle</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was amazing</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just Like a Fairy Tale</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">maybe like the one Cinderella visited</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">built in the early 1900's</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, it was built on an Island. Mr. Boldt, being the Prince Charming he was in his day, built this for his wife who he <em>Adored</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">but she died</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">(like in a classic fairy story eh)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">before he had it finished, so he walked away never to return</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It started to deteriorate, and NY State has been restoring it</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">here is a picture of one of the parlors</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like I said, he was super duper in love with his wife</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and had many many things in the house built with Hearts around it</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">He EVEN had part of the island cut away to be somewhat in the shape of a heart</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So here is me and Claudie, doing our Heart thing</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">in honor of their love</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">cause WHERE would we be without love</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wonder if I can convince Mr. Gorgeous to build me a corral in the shape of a heart??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately I have NO pictures of our Italian Night that Chef Randy had waiting for us when we got back. When we got back to Claudies, he had Dean Martin music playing outside for us</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and fixed us a HUGE dinner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was, well, manufique </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(or however you spell it)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">He spent all day preparing it for us</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>(I think he is in love with Claudie)</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">He made the bread that we dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">while sipping the vino....and listening to Dean-o</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">then served up the Eggplant Parmesean</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">then the chicken/pasta dish</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">with Tiramisu for dessert</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Randy (and her son Colt) were just like Gus-Gus from the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">movie Cinderella. I adore them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next day....into our nations capital .....Ottawa</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">our capital building</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">once again, kinda like Montreal, it had amazing architecture</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We took a drive down a street known as Embassy Street.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">well.....I might have made that up</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">cause I don't remember the name of the street but it is where all the Embassy buildings are</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">from other countries</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">see this one of Kuwait</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it was pretty cool to see them</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't say anything terroristic as we drove by....I tried not to make eye-contact</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that's what they say to do ya know</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We were actually on our way to see Claudie's moms cousin</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">who is a Nun</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">by the name of Sister Lauriette</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudie said she had been excited to think of meeting us</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">so we drove to the place where she lives</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and took a little tour around while we waited for her</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We went into the chapel area, and Miss Bee took a seat in the confessional booth</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudie went in and told her</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"Miss Bee, we just don't have that kind of time right now to listen to all your transgressions"</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">tee,hee......sorry Miss Bee, couldn't resist</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I think Claudie was feeling a little bad about that</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">so she and Julie decided to "tap into" their spiritual side</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Um....Julie. are you trying not to snicker??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, we hooked up with Sister Lauriette</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">she is 90 years old and is very witty</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I loved how she referred to all of us by where we came from</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">when addressing us, she'd say "so....Wendy from Calgary"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">or "Jeanne from North Carolina"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">it was very sweet</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">sometimes she'd have to pause as she is French speaking</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and of course she'd talk to us in English</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">remember the autograph books I told you about in Part 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">well, we all took our books to her so she could write in them</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudie had previously told her about the passing of my son</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I was very moved</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">to tears</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">by what she wrote in my book</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">She just made us laugh</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">filled us with joy that day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">which goes to show</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">you don't need to wave a magic wand to find beautiful people in your lives</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Back to Claudies</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">not only is she a lover of people</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">but she loves animals, and rescues dogs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">she has SEVEN of them at her house</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As is what happens in all fairy tales</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">there comes an ending</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">on our last day there, we all put on our penoirs she bought for us</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and played, just like little girls do, in dress up</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I thought I'd grab Julies camera and see if I could "capture a moment"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We had Jeanne pose as the actress Marlene Dietrich</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">famous from the 1930's</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">which was hysterical actually</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">She was even holding a piece of the DRIFTWOOD I brought</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">for each of them to smoke</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh yeah, I had to bring a little country to the castle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">they thought I'd lost my mind, and that maybe I'd smoked a few to many pieces of wood in my day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks Claudie for being my Fairy Godmother</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now the time has come when the clock has to strike midnight</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have to return to my own Prince Charming</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was fun to squeeze my bunioned foot into that glass slipper for a week</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And as I dust my own Rustic Castle, and hear the coyotes and the hawks call</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">perhaps</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">somewhere there'll be an echo of</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bibbity Boppity Boo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I hope there is a fairy tale awaiting all of you someday</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-83418785443232378062011-08-16T20:32:00.000-07:002011-08-16T20:41:10.952-07:00CINDERELLA GOT TO GO TO THE BALL<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am back. I know it has been a month, but as I mentioned on my last post, I have been <strong>celebrating life.</strong> Here is the story. I took 600 photos, and will try to spare you from all of them....YOU'RE WELCOME</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Part One</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you've imagined.</span> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(anonymous)</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">my dream vacation</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the lady behind it all, <a href="http://claudiesworld.blogspot.com/">Claudie.</a> She has spent nearly a year </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">AND</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">like Cinderella.......I was invited</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">all these photos were taken from my trip. I had to borrow from Jeanne for hers, but I tried to "catch" some of their personality. We promised each other to only post flattering pics.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are all blogging pals</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My FIRST time in meeting them</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What an eclectic group we were. Ranging in ages from 72 to 50, different upbringings, faiths, experiences</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and YET</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joy and Sorrow.....Pain and Pleasure has sat at all of our tables</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="right" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudies place was truly like a fairy tale. Everything there was so fanciful, fun, colorful, and almost magical</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudie even went to extraordinary efforts to make our rooms just "perfect" for us. She took the bedspreads off the hotel beds and put on some lovely ones from her own home. She tried to decorate every ones room according to their personalities, styles, and likes. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">She made huge paper flowers and streamers that hung from the ceilings. Since her favorite color is pink, she even put pink toilet paper in our bathrooms, along with lovely soaps. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not to mention the room fridges stocked with soda, juice, cheese, chocolate</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">a simple hotel room was transformed</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">befitting Cinderella</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meet her husband Randy. He did ALL the cooking for us and he is a chef supreme-o. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(he is opening some of the gifts we brought for him)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We all brought each other wonderful surprises, gifts. My whole carry on luggage was full of gifts</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and even more full going home</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me and Claudie</span> <span style="font-size: large;">enjoying one of Chef Randy's meals outside.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">yes, that is a river that runs along her back yard (sigh)</span></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We did a lot of This..celebrate</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and we also "danced to the music"</span></div><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">so before getting ready for our first swim.....we had our "ah ha" meeting</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">get it out</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">tell everyone what we Hate about our bodies</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">but we also had to tell what we Loved about our bodies.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Guess which list was longer.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Now that they know of my still post pregnancy belly fat (youngest is 26), I guess I am ready for the Plunge</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I am 5th one in</span></div><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">we went to Montreal...<strong>Oui</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Old Montreal</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">It was like nothing I have ever seen before</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Cobblestone streets, amazing architecture, shops, oh the food!! </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Julie and CC seem happy about their room</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">just being friends who can hold hands</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and be ok</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">cause that's what friends do</span></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We all had autograph books </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(which was one of our many gifts) </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Everywhere we stopped, we tried to get people to sign our books.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We'd paste paper souvenirs in them</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is one of our waiters signing our books</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Can I just say the French men....Oooola la </span></div><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA0i0dgAcbxK4E5Czn1eLCt5J-D0tVfvXQdaMYwiOrzE6eQINpIoe0ZenOb_-ARp2NobKdmMEe71QMJcJzZtGvijea0VyH0YKB-tfVptvKC0UiWkdekshb4uQKKA7DbD4IvJ1he8BBghc/s1600/196.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641602452668532770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA0i0dgAcbxK4E5Czn1eLCt5J-D0tVfvXQdaMYwiOrzE6eQINpIoe0ZenOb_-ARp2NobKdmMEe71QMJcJzZtGvijea0VyH0YKB-tfVptvKC0UiWkdekshb4uQKKA7DbD4IvJ1he8BBghc/s400/196.JPG" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 500px;" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Before we left, all the waiters came over</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and they left us each with a red rose they bought from a street lady</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Did I mention..........Ooooo la la</span> </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We went for a walk along the pier and saw this sign.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Claudie, using her french charm</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">talked the owner into letting us get one for $5.00</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">All we had them put on each of us was the words</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">SUMMER BREEZE</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, I thought I'd get my sexy on, and have mine on my neck/chest area</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">So.....I am not really the french floozy that this photo looks like</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I had to pull the shirt down so it wouldn't rub off</span></div><div align="center">(that's my story and I'm sticking to it)</div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">However, after all my efforts to protect it</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">by the end of the night it was a mess</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">It ended up looking like some broad who was getting laser treatments for a Bad Tattoo</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Since it was such a muggy night, we all did a little dance in the fountain. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Sure, you're not supposed to</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Whatever</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Claudie)</span></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Not a bad photo for all us felons I guess. Poor Julie isn't in this photo as she was our official picture taker. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">That water felt dang good for all us menopausal women</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We took a little detour home. Went on a ferry boat ride. AGAIN, Claudie, using her irresistible charms, talked the captain down on the price</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">and</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">as it turned out.....he took us across 4 times just for fun</span></div><div align="center">(it is only a 15 min. ride across the river)</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">One side of the river is Ontario, the other Quebec</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(CC and Claudie)</span></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Don't worry Jeanne, it's not that big of a river.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">If you fall off, just paddle hard</span></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course no trip to Canada would be complete without some POUTINE.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Eastern Canada makes the best</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">It is french fries covered with cheese curds and brown gravy</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">We only wanted one family order for our southern friends to try, but when they found out where we were all from</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">they gave us 2 for the price of 1</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">SO</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">instead of only 1000 calories a mouthful, we got 2000</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">NICE</span></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">This is where I will leave you for now.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">I am sure my carriage is about to turn into a pumpkin</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">enjoy this sunset from Claudies back yard</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">along the river</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">"a dream is a wish your heart makes"</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsYJGb0YvMYgVWKpSzIAEcTEkPsB-_s0eNxAeRUwC0j4aFCMU7DU0IR-soNcKVYWGYDxA7Jrv-UpB1pcImNW4HROPw8a3HKd2N261u6EVT0Wq1yEHosQXTNarqgOO4itP2OHRunkKU3g/s1600/464.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>stay tuned for part deux </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">that's french talk for two</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-9807416803943299832010-12-01T07:56:00.000-08:002010-12-01T08:00:49.996-08:00COLD<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRo8MKwbGDb-aG1NN0gqC2-u-WlltuuA_MWOsHWQEnbDS4MPJXREV1TqbZ3kMnG4z6Lam-6-oqbfhO3x2WV3a3-fK8dALK9fGuFrc9whCSKPsI75h1X_lSl_CB3-T8DIiDtCjVGRt_yyPG/s1600/snowy+road.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545743569670498322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRo8MKwbGDb-aG1NN0gqC2-u-WlltuuA_MWOsHWQEnbDS4MPJXREV1TqbZ3kMnG4z6Lam-6-oqbfhO3x2WV3a3-fK8dALK9fGuFrc9whCSKPsI75h1X_lSl_CB3-T8DIiDtCjVGRt_yyPG/s400/snowy+road.jpg" /></a> It's cold.<br />The weather.<br />Me.<br />Because I have a big hole in my heart. My children have been my poultice these last couple of weeks. We have all gathered around and done all we can to try and become warm.<br />Not because of the weather<br />But because we have a hole in our heart.<br /><br />I 'm heading back home tomorrow. Back to those country, snowy roads. It will take all winter I am sure to feel warm again.<br />Not because it's cold outside.wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233312253284205338.post-10520259963953321902010-11-22T10:37:00.001-08:002010-11-22T13:25:35.061-08:00MY SON----MY SHINING STAR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKHhFV5HGgrKFTw3vW8qM0VFYMuNo9ht-11wI1qtzMjdwRYzZ-sFujwHwCCpkQSACLth0QU5bdqvb1H97eyH374DvP0IvQ30spzcZ-Zfsmd5w4AOUpsOfsfma4AKoa-VmfYV60tSLnJUb/s1600/Matt_Doman.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 323px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542446056190399026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKHhFV5HGgrKFTw3vW8qM0VFYMuNo9ht-11wI1qtzMjdwRYzZ-sFujwHwCCpkQSACLth0QU5bdqvb1H97eyH374DvP0IvQ30spzcZ-Zfsmd5w4AOUpsOfsfma4AKoa-VmfYV60tSLnJUb/s400/Matt_Doman.jpg" /></a> <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">MATTHEW PURNELL DOMAN (January 30, 1975 - November 11, 2010)<br /><br /></span></strong>As many of you know, my son passed away recently. It was a blow to the whole family. A pain and loss that will take years to subside.<br /><br />I thought I would post a little about this great son of mine. Matt lived life in OVERDRIVE. I wish sometimes he would have set a "cruise control" and not been so hard on himself, expect so much from himself, let life settle around him a little more.<br /><br />A perfectionist, an achiever, an athlete, loved family and friend get togethers, a BBQ King, a tease, always with a hug to be offered.<br /><br />Matthew had his own demons and dragons in life to fight. He struggled many years with alcohol and drugs. Details of those battles are not necessary for YOU, but know he tried very hard to be the conqueror of that fight. Was not to be. His body finally surrendered.<br /><br />I am comforted only to know that battle is over. He is at peace. He can rest now......time to turn off the overdrive and cruise.<br /><br /><br />Here is a photo of his wonderful children. They are so dear. Their dad was their super hero<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrf6KNBAifIHD-tA0Pwv57LxK3LCBAgkZZbvKVRc_cTGi7x_0Ew_IDrbP8hgI4HOGWsRwEebTjf2V4Y_4jd8XjhugIHPtJh7RTDqVzCZiaS9aRwohGenByQUZrSP-4ph2-OigmwqqQOjBg/s1600/matts+kids.bmp"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445957275433106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrf6KNBAifIHD-tA0Pwv57LxK3LCBAgkZZbvKVRc_cTGi7x_0Ew_IDrbP8hgI4HOGWsRwEebTjf2V4Y_4jd8XjhugIHPtJh7RTDqVzCZiaS9aRwohGenByQUZrSP-4ph2-OigmwqqQOjBg/s400/matts+kids.bmp" /></a><br />Matt and his wife Rena.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jVpTTeapGdQenauQ92eOR131t9H5juhR-ffyfPJnb-F3W4F-2AOdRdqmwo9gaNyC2K8KrynytgLbtHXRVGMsv8bHnCvIfBXNpv5I46l00K6XEmdJTrU2xB-0n-tIl2dot5GodA1LA0Yv/s1600/matt+%2526+rena.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 268px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445860514860834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jVpTTeapGdQenauQ92eOR131t9H5juhR-ffyfPJnb-F3W4F-2AOdRdqmwo9gaNyC2K8KrynytgLbtHXRVGMsv8bHnCvIfBXNpv5I46l00K6XEmdJTrU2xB-0n-tIl2dot5GodA1LA0Yv/s400/matt+%2526+rena.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4uwyNRjJgOZ5iyZJ6f9IX7tCIaPNKhXnp1ygK5P6l9Ssz9MoymNw2NFPKIcRRKVv4DFpzYBs9wiWVQ7jsMeRTXdJ0Lv8K77xsQovdipJ1S-roblnADRsjhNPuVVMZksG8eZ7xfQsgc4c/s1600/matt+%2526+rena+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445784604375282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4uwyNRjJgOZ5iyZJ6f9IX7tCIaPNKhXnp1ygK5P6l9Ssz9MoymNw2NFPKIcRRKVv4DFpzYBs9wiWVQ7jsMeRTXdJ0Lv8K77xsQovdipJ1S-roblnADRsjhNPuVVMZksG8eZ7xfQsgc4c/s400/matt+%2526+rena+2.jpg" /></a><br />Matt and his daughter. He was her Prince.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxC9eddbt-6Cbs3S6WpYC0zxcekOKdpDn51grz-T6l3r2azySlRBZ642koN77PtK7dvdX3qZRTnXzIEqGjIGjgyED6kBVc5KHAwvkxWSjjdfdV1pVmX-2Y9EJQmEvoslcwzPGUxkrWfW9/s1600/matt+%2526+kyleen.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445655564257634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxC9eddbt-6Cbs3S6WpYC0zxcekOKdpDn51grz-T6l3r2azySlRBZ642koN77PtK7dvdX3qZRTnXzIEqGjIGjgyED6kBVc5KHAwvkxWSjjdfdV1pVmX-2Y9EJQmEvoslcwzPGUxkrWfW9/s400/matt+%2526+kyleen.jpg" /></a><br />We are all football fans..........Matt played football in highschool, went on to play college ball on scholarship. We are great fans of the Brigham Young University football team. </div><div>Matt with his son ....ready for a game.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdv8rRGOzTgp0JNKTgpzTJdCTFmhyIdVjwz-FSw9zM1mUWkl5T0I98GhpJ0BgeX170mkR3-uXtQD4DJpYpK5rSiml0nmfzlGPaFX2w39QwlvlHf6BEiNTR20anBqCgSR1jwT-Ne150DRJ8/s1600/matt+%2526+collin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 98px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 130px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445543729821490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdv8rRGOzTgp0JNKTgpzTJdCTFmhyIdVjwz-FSw9zM1mUWkl5T0I98GhpJ0BgeX170mkR3-uXtQD4DJpYpK5rSiml0nmfzlGPaFX2w39QwlvlHf6BEiNTR20anBqCgSR1jwT-Ne150DRJ8/s400/matt+%2526+collin.jpg" /></a> Matt and two of his brothers, son and nephew. (<span style="font-size:85%;">Matt on the left</span>)<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR7STMOGREUUcpfEzXlCf8KgFYgujJrwr77yEY2AGISavsui-lp1cNNUvJidcnVr6tAKk-3ngie7iR_WLjEgvH-L9CUj4XF4PG7tYIauABbNk8-CfAuznEsGkt5pzKfmIK3LoK_g5yB9mf/s1600/matt+byu+photo.bmp"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445454747619858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR7STMOGREUUcpfEzXlCf8KgFYgujJrwr77yEY2AGISavsui-lp1cNNUvJidcnVr6tAKk-3ngie7iR_WLjEgvH-L9CUj4XF4PG7tYIauABbNk8-CfAuznEsGkt5pzKfmIK3LoK_g5yB9mf/s400/matt+byu+photo.bmp" /></a><br />Matt with his brothers a couple of Christmas's ago. (<span style="font-size:85%;">Matt in middle</span>)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIhss0YIQbynLt3fhM-FDpW49I4pWoqnj1Bx2d-F14ZVFYw-guctSOQOzG4OuTk_1HP2k52PgMVI4v7qaDJMbufqx4SWffgruxeiZDmwk34Zrljq040NMwKzlVF4fdhgJAhYQJ-0pQzbb/s1600/matt+christmas.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445317163765010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIhss0YIQbynLt3fhM-FDpW49I4pWoqnj1Bx2d-F14ZVFYw-guctSOQOzG4OuTk_1HP2k52PgMVI4v7qaDJMbufqx4SWffgruxeiZDmwk34Zrljq040NMwKzlVF4fdhgJAhYQJ-0pQzbb/s400/matt+christmas.jpg" /></a><br />Me and Matt.</div><div>(<span style="font-size:85%;">sorry some of these photos are so small, I am not home and having to pull these off facebook) As of yet I haven't located available photos of Matt and his only sister, Emma. Like I said, I am digging around.<br /><br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0rtPUX4Ktp6HcbLtrZnn3jCjeFM5PGeJZDH6Kk9JZBCi_LivHq1hf54W7poqt5qye_GgAVnIEGdbMaF-x3p3Kx_2jJjUffJ-C2DS4DMAw6f9n_E_ogXo9Thzjm7jefpa-YLv31epxTXE/s1600/matt.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 105px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 91px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445209643464434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0rtPUX4Ktp6HcbLtrZnn3jCjeFM5PGeJZDH6Kk9JZBCi_LivHq1hf54W7poqt5qye_GgAVnIEGdbMaF-x3p3Kx_2jJjUffJ-C2DS4DMAw6f9n_E_ogXo9Thzjm7jefpa-YLv31epxTXE/s400/matt.jpg" /></a> Matt always had a BIG BONFIRE at the close of Christmas season, burning the trees in his backyard firepit. </div><div>Everything Matt did had to be GRAND and OVER THE TOP.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBG9ZwyL5QgLJccyRHtYG_3Qc5brcrELvexjS5wn_K0h-2OjVlwI-OhRimZhW3suWE9Dgnpp3r-D-pKLRh3pPJHPCZz8jDerURQxpBLPBwK1bHOxZvCh1X5AdDjHlDz1xMr_qPWD81FdvL/s1600/matt+fire.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 178px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542445081336541826" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBG9ZwyL5QgLJccyRHtYG_3Qc5brcrELvexjS5wn_K0h-2OjVlwI-OhRimZhW3suWE9Dgnpp3r-D-pKLRh3pPJHPCZz8jDerURQxpBLPBwK1bHOxZvCh1X5AdDjHlDz1xMr_qPWD81FdvL/s400/matt+fire.jpg" /></a> Matthew <strong>IS</strong> grand and over the top. Matt is my son. I wish I could cradle him in my arms .</div><div>But for now, I will leave him in the arms of his Savior.</div><div></div><div>Love you Matt.</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13619293936418976914noreply@blogger.com52