The other day I was waiting for Ken to pay for our ice cream at the Osco and I overheard something a little like this,
Lady #1, store customer “I ain’t with my kid’s father anymore.”
Lady#2, clerk, “Shut-up! You are too!”
Lady #1 “Na-uh…”
At this point I started to discretely stroll away from the overheard conversation, thinking [...]

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(Anti-Katy gave Li a metal detector for X-mas. Now we have regular expeditions and are building up a store of treasures like these! Can’t wait for spring and the beach!)
I don’t know about you, but I swore it would be different after the holidays. I swore there would be times when we slept in, took [...]

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(The birthday boy, blowing out the volcano-taken by Bryan-the guy with a good camera who attends all such events)
Doing a little housekeeping….since we’ll have visitors for the weekend. Actually, I’m doing a lot of freaking out about housekeeping. So, I should have lots of material later. Meanwhile, here is a link to the Carnival of [...]

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It is true. Because it has been ordained by someone with the graphical capabilities to make a button, you are now required by your conscience to delurk. That means if you are one of the hundreds of folks (or automated computers looking to leave spam trails) who pop in here daily, you should slow down [...]

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(Inspiration from my kids…Keep on striving every dang day. This is Fi’s first pullover on the bars)
So, I’m not sure if I mentioned it here yet, but this blog has been reviewed in a book called Blogosphere-Best of Blogs. The book itself is really great, with lots of helpful information about how to blog and [...]

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Shakespeare Souffle #25. Jan 2, 2005. Our first anniversary show with some surprise guest appearances and some new music.
Click here to listen . (Running time is 62:29, filesize is 28.6MB)
Yes folks, it is a really big shew, full of memories, jokes, laughs, songs and quick edits. Drop us a word/line/email if you enjoyed it.

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Those poor people in the Alps had a roof collapse on them while ice skating yesterday. We were ice skating yesterday also and studying the structure of the roof of the building and talking about its fortitude, among other things. How horrible for that town. Those kinds of accidents always get me stuck in [...]

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(well, it wasn’t homemade {project for next year} but look at the three generations of hands that got involved working on this one! We also had a videographer/photographer {Ken} and an icing loader {John})
Happy New Year! It is 30 minutes in to the New year and I’ve already had my first truly paranoid thought of [...]

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