Posted in Raquel on Nov 13th, 2005 No Comments »
Tomorrow we will be leaving to travel to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving. No, it doesn’t take a week and a half to get there. (Smart aleck.) We will be spending a week or thereabouts at my parents house, including Thanksgiving. Actually I think we’re all going to my aunt and uncle’s house for Thanksgiving. [...]
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Posted in Raquel on Nov 13th, 2005 4 Comments »
Today I took homemade marshmallows to the fellowship dinner. That is, I claim I took marshmallows to the fellowship dinner. Gabrielle says they are quite good, but they are not marshmallows because marshmallows come from the store. Yes, I reply, marshmallows come from the store. That’s exactly why it’s so cool that I found out [...]
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This isn’t really about the Burning Plum. Or maybe it is. It depends on how you look at it. Thinking about last night I realized something once again. I have friends. In the plural, even. And not just acquaintances who are called friends out of politeness.
Any conversation which involves me saying the words “deer [...]
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Posted in Raquel on Nov 11th, 2005 No Comments »
Though I haven’t read all of these poems I liked most of what I did read, and they are by one of my favorite mystery authors. http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/sayers/catholictales/index.htm
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For most of my life I lived in a place where I could walk out the door into a front yard, and from the front yard to a moderately quiet road where I was unlikely to meet anyone. When I moved to Marquette Heights I thought of that as city life. I walked out the [...]
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Posted in Gabrielle on Nov 11th, 2005 No Comments »
Now, I’ve seen all kinds of things turned into something romantic. I’ve heard of plumbing being romantic and mowing the lawn a sign of cherishing your wife, but today I saw one that I’ve haven’t seen before. Last night Seth copied some music from his laptop onto the home computer and this morning Crystal was [...]
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Have I ever told the tale of the Burning Plum? No? Well, the story of the Burning Plum started when Theresa was looking for a paint color to go in their new living room that would not clash with the fireplace tiles. The color she eventually decided upon is called Burnt Plum. We spend many [...]
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